Last year, we posted a betting guide for the OU and OSU season openers. Besides giving our opinion on the point spreads, we also posted a bunch of exotic bets. Here are some highlights on the OU side of things:
+/- 5: How many Sam Bradford incomplete passes it will take before 80,000+ people scream for Keith Nichol to be put in the game.
8-1: That there is “only one” Joe John Finley.
40-1: That all non-OU graduates in attendance at the North Texas game refuse to sing “Alma Mater’s Praise,” resulting in only 1,723 people singing.
100-1: Under heavy pressure from President Boren, the Pride of Oklahoma performs classic 70s hits from Barbara Streisand.
I’m glad nobody posted this thing over at OU Insider, because if they did, we probably could have lost a lot of money from people taking the under on the Sam Bradford thing. Anyway, after the jump I have our exotic bets for the OU season opener against Chattanooga. I would have included some for OSU, too, but fortunately our OSU expert Clark Matthews never emailed them too me.
Odds:
3 to 2: Chattanooga gets less than 5 first downs:
2-1: OU plays in a “great” way
3-1: Sarah flashes Sam Bradford
5-1: Bob Barry Sr. says either: a) Tampon Springs, Flordia b) Incompletion…Touchdown! c) Chattahoochee
10 to 1: Bob Barry Jr. defends his dad the following Monday on The Sports Animal
15 to 1: The OU band performs “Thriller” (again) during halftime and thinks its cool
20 to 1: DeMarcus Granger steals an orange jacket from a member of the chain crew
30 to 1: Jenna Plumley steals some eye black from DeMarcus Granger
35 to 1: Josh Jarboe raps the National Anthem
40 to 1: There is “only one” Rhett Bomar
50 to 1: James Hale gets an erection during the postgame press conference
100 to 1: Clark Matthews gets an erection during the postgame press conference
150 to 1: Chattanooga wears special commemorative Appalachian State jerseys
82,112 to 1: The people inside Gaylord Memorial Stadium commit a mass suicide if OU loses
Over and Under:
0: Chattanooga players who could start for Oklahoma
8: Chattanooga players who could start for Jenks or Tulsa Union
10: Chattanooga players who could start for Washington State
12: Beers I drink before the game on campus corner
15,000: People who sneak alcohol into the stadium
20,000: People who yell “Sooners” at the end of the national anthem
25,000: People who leave the stadium before the start of the 4th quarter
Well, that’s all I got. To place a bet, click here. To submit your own exotic bets, leave a comment.
(off the board..no line…guaranteed to happen) That some dickweed starts “the wave” early in the 3rd quarter.
Embarrassing.
1-5 OU doesn’t activate their playbook for Chattanooga
3-1 OU doesn’t activate their playbook at all during non-conference
6-1 OU really doesn’t have a playbook
10000-1 James Hale asks Bob Stoops if todays victory helps heal the wounds of 2 stinging embarrasing losses on a national stage in the Fiesta Bowl and does todays victory let you and your team put the ass whipping USC gave in the National Championship on the Sooners completely behind? (as James keeps his program in his lap to hide his throbbing stoopsrection)
2:1- that Merv Johnson has to re-identify a player that Bob Sr. mis-identifies before the end of the 1st qtr.
even money: some OU fan will flash the upside down hook em horns at a pay for view camera by kickoff.
EVEN:
Merv Johsnon’s keys to the game reveals a new top secret strategy… such as… “Bob, I believe if the Sooners can get out there and score more points than Chatanooga they should come out of here with a victory”
5-1 Bob Stoops says something to the effect of ‘Chattanooga is a good football team.’ during the post game press conference to help his chances of securing a BCS Title Game later in the season.
1 million-1: The stands will be at least half empty by the beginning of the 4th quarter in Norman.
25-1: Players you’ve never heard of (except during recruiting) and never will again will get to play late in the game.
Even: They’ll play that stupid video prior to the game with Boren, Castiglione and Stoops telling the fans not to boo the opponents. Right. You’ve got thousands of students in the stands, most of whom have been partying all day, and you ask them to play nice. And, throw in the many fans who are in the same condition and expect them to act like they’re at a tea party.
I don’t think people really understand how betting works. I wouldn’t say its 1,000,000 - 1 that half the stands are empty by the beginning of the 4th Q. More like 10-1.
3 - 1
20,000+ Fans will be disappointed with a 65 - 3 victory, b/c we didn’t score on every possession.
Even Money
James Hale and Carey Murdock have a Shirtless Battle Royale in the Post Game Press Conference while Robert Allen films the sexiness….
The stands won’t be half empty by the start of the fourth quarter. A quarter maybe, but not half. Most people like to stay to watch a beating. They’ll leave with five minutes left, but they will be there for the start of the fourth quarter.
Why did you leave the odds out for the OSU season opener this year? This notion that Poke fans have that OU fans aren’t real fans because they didn’t graduate from OU is hillarious. Do you think Boone would care if they graduated from O-State if they’d just show up? I promise you, most big time programs don’t fill their stadiums with graduates and if that is a prerequisite for going to an OSU game then maybe that’s why it’s never full up there unless the Sooners come to town… I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
” Soonerken
Aug 27th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Even: They’ll play that stupid video prior to the game with Boren, Castiglione and Stoops telling the fans not to boo the opponents. Right. You’ve got thousands of students in the stands, most of whom have been partying all day, and you ask them to play nice. And, throw in the many fans who are in the same condition and expect them to act like they’re at a tea party.”
Bless your heart that you think even 1/10 of the booing is done by students. Most of it is done by the season tickeholders who never attended OU.
Here’s an OSU-WSU over-under for you. 47
- The amount of times the FSN announcers will make some cute seemingly but not clever reference to the rant. (i.e. “He may not be 40 anymore, but he’s certainly the man in Stillwater” or “That blown coverage is certainly something for Coach Gundy to rant about!” or “That completion certainly wasn’t garbage”)
It’s an easy call to take the over. I expect no less than 75 tired, unclever, and completely unoriginal references
Who cares about this game?
OU cant get John Marshall on the board? Joe Jon Finley is a snobby douche with a cleetchaser for a girlfriend and he is gone anyways.
I cant believe people will want to pay $30 to watch a nothing game on television.
I am pretty sure Alabama Clemson or Appy State and LSU will be better games to watch than Cleetchaser U. against a nothing team.
Keith Nichol left didn’t he?
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No Freikin’ Way…Bobby Allen will still be rubbing out some new hair-gel for Gundy.
Who’d win the “which one can blow the head-coach the most for access to the program” sweepstakes between James Hale and Robert Allen?
I think jzonic the point trying to be made is that most of the fans in Norman or other big time programs don’t fill their stadiums with graduates is because most of them wouldn’t have the mental resources to graduate from said big time programs
Over/Under 5000
Number of Sooner fans attending the game who buy the pay-per-view, record it, and go home and watch it again
For the record, I’ve been a huge OU fan my entire life, have season tickets, and didn’t go to school there.
I have multiple degrees from OU and do not hold up my finger or sing the Alma Mater’s Praise. That “tradition” was invented by Boren around 2001 to cash in on our NC. I prefer to let the guys in Stillwater steal their “long standing” traditions from other schools.
I figure my son’s tuition payments, investment in gear, and general love of OU football allows me to stay home and watch it on TV (or not). And yes, several people are kicking in for the $30.
Well no more Plumley jokes.
Dumbley is now enrolled at Lamar.
Guess she couldn’t stand her problems of being ugly and ran away from them.
Boone said:
*** I have multiple degrees from OU and do not hold up my finger or sing the Alma Mater’s Praise. That “tradition” was invented by Boren around 2001 to cash in on our NC. ***
Ryan:
I recall doing it in the 80s. Been. Around. Forever.
Huh? That tradition has been around forever. Heck, we did it during John Blake games, when we wanted to take that finger and (use your imagination)!
My prediction:
2-1 that the most referred-to player associated with Chattanooga won’t even be playing. Terrell Owens.
4-1 that Sam plays no more than one half.
Also 4-1 that the video from the Appalachian State game is played at least once before the start of the game, to give a sliver of hope to anybody from Tennessee.
10-1 that we (OU) score 80.
Boone said:
I prefer to let the guys in Stillwater steal their “long standing” traditions from other schools.
Oh…..you mean like ou stealing the Yale fight song “Boola Boola” and adding their own words (both of them) to the song?
Actually, we’ve been singing the chant as long as I’ve been attending games, so at least 26 years. Anyway, I don’t see how it’s a way Boren is “cashing in” on national championships. I don’t think any money is earned during the recitation of the chant.
As for the non-graduates who are fans, that just goes to show that OU has a product that is attractive to Oklahomans, whether they are alums or not. I’ve never seen that as a negative. Plus, if you want to fill a stadium, considering the number of alums who don’t live close enough to come to Norman for games, you’re going to have to get some fans who didn’t go to school here.
That’s also what it will take to fill the stands at Lewis Field.
“For the record, I’ve been a huge OU fan my entire life, have season tickets, and didn’t go to school there.”
Ditto. I’ve sat thru the good (Switzer, Stoops), the bad (Blake) and the ugly (Schnellenberger). I’ve gone to several bowl games, go to OU/Texas every year and have some OU stuff but I’m not an idiot about it. Doesn’t make me a bad person, does it?
1 to 5
People will come on here to justify being OU fans even though they never stepped foot in a Norman classroom.
So…Patrick, what were you saying about a message board?
O.U. wouldn’t care if the fans came directly paroled from the Department of Corrections as long as they purchased a ticket. Fans who follow O.U. football but never attended O.U. are known as Alley Alumni.
50-1, graduates of any Ivy League schools who might be sitting in the seats at Gay-Lords Stadium on game day are thinking a degree from O.U. is equivalent to a G.E.D..
College hate is all about fashion. You don’t hate OU because of the non-alumni fans. You don’t hate OSU because of Gundy’s hair gel. You hate each other because your teams wear jerseys of different colors.
People are allowed to like a team even if they didn’t go to a school. I am an OU grad. My parents went to UCO. They are allowed to be OU fans.
OSU also allows non-alumni in the door, and I’m betting there are a measurable percentage of adult OSU fans who are neither college grads nor even high school graduates. There may even be some fat and/or ugly ones. That doesn’t mean they have intercourse with sheep, although they might be dog lovers if they come from Tulsa.
Even money on Bob Barry screwing up a name, ball location, touchdown, dropped pass, coin flip, or introduction of the Pride of Oklahoma Band. That’s like taking candy from a baby.
Give Jr a break. This S his dad we’re talking about, and he never listens to his broadasts anyway, since he’s covering the game live. Is the guy supposed to pile on his old man?
Castiglione and Boren are responsible for the weekly debacle known as OU football broadcasts. Now THAT’S an OU tradition.
did anyone else notice that plumley didn’t wear makeup her freshman year at ou. suddenly, here sophomore year she shows up wearing eye shadow and crap while playing?? does that mean she had no way of getting to walmart to steal cheap-ass makeup her first year at ou? i think she had as many turnovers per game as she did coats of eye shadow. looks like cheap war paint.
I’m just saying that as an alum, I appreciate all true fans, whether they went to school here or not. Gameday is a good time. Loving the sport should be the only prerequisite.
By the way, my bets for the “There is only One…” messages…
Jack Mildren, the four Heisman winners, Bud, Barry, and Bob, AD, Jermaine Gresham, Roy Williams, and Cecil Samara, just for grins and giggles.
Grendel, you got me to thinking — and this is an easy one: 1-2 there will be at least one thunderous ovation for Jack Mildren.
If there’s not, then somebody’s not doing his job.
The next two days can’t go by fast enough!
Proud OU grad here (Class of 2005). I say the more the merrier! Any Sooner fan is okay in my book.
So, let me see if I understand–if you did not attend a particular school, you can’t be a fan or go to their games? Probably news to all those Notre Dame fans worldwide. Ditto Air Force, Navy, etc.
As far as “ivy league” grads looking down their noses at OU (or anyone else, for that matter), I have a very good friend who went to Yale and is an avid OU fan and season ticket holder. Next time I see him at a game, I’m going to tell him to get his butt outta there so a “real” fan can have his seat. I’m sure he’ll not have a problem with that.
Yeah, I don’t know what the non-alums “not a fan” bit is about. Being a fan doesn’t automatically mean you BOO the opposing team, key their fans cars, or get into fights in the parking lot. Something has to bring that about, like “Did you look at me?”
Odds off the board: Thousands of jackasses will put their team before their country by not bothering to sing during the national anthem, but making sure to scream “Sooners” in place of the word “brave”.
For the record, the name of OU’s alma mater is “The OU Chant”, and has been sung at football games since 1938. I don’t know when the finger in the air became associated with it, but we did it when I was in the Pride from 1980-83.
FWIW, I appreciate Boren’s attempt to reduce the booing. The Sooners are going to crush most teams who come to Owen Field - the least we fans could do is show a little class towards the sacrificial lambs.
3-1 Chances that a member of the somewhat now defunct Swarm will call in to the Animal post game show with some outrageous prediction about what is to come this season.
Important correction to “Boone” about the OU Chant (a.k.a. “Alma Maters Praise”): 33 years ago my father made me learn every word to that song prior to attending my first football game…which was the same thing his father made him do. It’s been being sung before games for a long, long time.
And, as an alum, I don’t mind fans who didn’t attend OU coming to the games…as long as they have a majority of their teeth and can show a little class towards the opposing fans and players.
I’m an Oklahoma native…which makes me a native of the Sooner State. Didn’t go to OU (CSU - now UCO - grad). Grew up with Razorback parents and siblings who are OSU alums and diehard Poke fans. I’ve been a diehard Sooner fan since the “game of the century,” went to most home games during the Switzer era, and got spit on by Hurricane scum during the OU-Miami national championship game in the Orange Bowl. Never have I felt that I was a “second-rate” fan because I didn’t graduate from OU.
I love this site, by the way, but it sure can make me homesick.