Get your Guns up for a shootout

This year it has become a cliche' to say that this week's game is the biggest game in Texas tech history.  It seems that last month of football for the Red Raiders has set some sort of precedent for the program.  This week against the Sooners of Oklahoma will be no different.

This game does not appear to be that big of a rival game historically speaking.  Although Mike Leach coached under Bob Stoopes at Oklahoma there is no bad blood or underlying hatred to speak of.  Stoopes is 6-2 against Leach, one of those losses coming last year when Oklahoma had its eyes on the national title.  However, this game is bigger than any for the Red Raiders and perhaps for the Oklahoma Sooners.  Since the commencement of the Big 12 Conference in 1996 Texas Tech has not won the conference or even the South Division but has the opportunity to clinch the south and play for the conference championship with a win this weekend.  A win for Oklahoma would mean total chaos.  All BCS hell would break loose.  Texas, OKlahoma, and Tech would all be tied at the top of the Big 12 south. Now the tiebreaker, according to conference rules, will be who is ranked higher in the BCS standings.  So will Oklahoma jump Texas with a win and just how far will Tech fall.  What a mess might await us.

This will be a helluva football game and will come down to defense again which does not bode well for the Sooners.  Stay tuned to the blog for pick-ems.  Live like no one is watching and someone please slap a stripper so you can get onto the Dallas Cowboy roster.