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Texas Tech-Oklahoma Football: The Hype is Killing Me

 
OMG. ESPN, please stop it already. My stomach already churns all day. And the work is piling up on my desk because every time I turn around I get an e-mail from a Tech buddy that has a link to a story or a video that I've already read or seen about four times. Did you know Mike Leach was the subject of an article in The New York Times Magazine by Michael Lewis? And then the NYTM did a follow-up interview with Lewis and Lewis still thinks we're David and UT and OU are Goliath? And that OU is favored by 6.5 to 7 and that Bob Stoops never loses in Norman, unless you count all the times he's lost to UT in Dallas? I'm terribly grateful for all of the great pub TTU is getting, though—for years we've strolled along in relative anonymity—and so it's cool to see Tom Rinaldi reporting from AT&T Jones Stadium like he's doing pregame for the next Indy at New England showdown. I'm like a kid in a candy store here. To be able to have conversations with fellow college football fans and ... (link)

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