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More problems in the Big 12 last week and trouble in the Big Ten West. Is a total USC implosion coming? Dumpster Fires of the Week: Week Three 1. Texas punting Losing by a touchdown isn’t usually worthy of a Dumpster Fire. But Charlie Strong gets a nod for the […]

Bob Stoops has had an eventful offseason in 2013. His latest comments about the depth of the SEC has given the punditry about a week’s worth of material. Braden Gall of Athlon Sports and Sirius/XM College Sports joins Homerism for a podcast to chop up what Stoops said and why. Braden and […]

Odds and ends from around the online world: *Big 12 blogger Ian Boyd offers up a fairly bullish evaluation of Oklahoma’s recruiting haul from 2016. He uses a scheme-centric rubric that assesses how well teams met their needs, which accounts for its silver-lining flavor. *Howard Bryant of ESPN wrote arguably the best […]

Editor’s Note: It’s one of the hottest questions heading into the 2010 NFL Draft: Who’s the better quarterback between Jimmy Clausen of the Notre Dame Fightin’ Irish and the Oklahoma Sooners’ Sam Bradford? Bloguin network partners Michael Felder of In The Bleachers and Blatant Homerism have decided to settle the […]

Word started to spread last week that there might be some mutual interest between Oklahoma and Texas A&M transfer Kyler Murray. (Props to SoonerScoop.com for the… scoop.) I didn’t put much stock in it, which shows what I know. A few thoughts on the big Christmas Eve news: *To get this out of […]

The Skinny picked up a game on BH last week as we enter the season’s stretch run. On to this week’s picks… BLATANT HOMERISM–Week 10 (Last week: 2-3; Overall: 28-17) LSU at Alabama (-6.5) I don’t love this pick, but I feel like I’d be doing y’all a disservice if I didn’t […]

Since this deal about Lincoln Riley and Georgia’s defense remains a thing, I figured I’d add a few more logs to the fire. The full exchange between Riley and Danny Kanell from a spot on ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM is below. Riley is correct: Georgia would not have finished in […]

Since he got let go at Kansas in 2009, Mark Mangino has, on occasion, cut a sizable figure on the Oklahoma sideline. The former OU offensive coordinator has hovered – quite noticeably, of course – in the background of the program during his coaching hiatus, ostensibly kicking it with his […]

In the latest episode of the Blatant Homerism Podcast, John Walters of Newsweek and mediumhappy.com joins the show to discuss the falling out between Bill Simmons and ESPN. John and I touch on: Simmons’ influence on today’s sports writing (e.g., his Atlanta Gold Club piece); His conflicts with ESPN; What the break-up says about ESPN’s business model; And more. (Look for […]

With about two weeks to go, recruiting news is hitting a frenzy. This update is as accurate as I could make it, but rest assured that in 24 hours something new will have happened. Oklahoma currently stands at 14 verbal commitments, with nine more spots likely left to fill. New […]