T. Boone’s line on UGA-OSU: Cowboys by 363 points
I’ve picked Georgia to lose to Oklahoma State by 10 points. T. Boone Pickens, who has more money than Arthur Blank and I put together, likes Georgia to lose by 363 points.
When I read T. Boone’s “predicted” score of 387-24 in a post by Terrance Harris on Fanhouse — thanks to observant reader Dink for the tip — my first thought was that the oil wildcatter has obviously been scouting Willie Martinez. But after reading Dave Sittler’s original column in the Tulsa World, I’m not sure this was an actual prediction. Sittler used the word “requested,” which is a bit different.
Example: I would like to request that Mr. Pickens give me 165 million bucks, but I’m not predicting he will.
T. Boone is 81. (He and the fourth Mrs. Pickens traveled to Athens in 2007 when OSU lost to the Bulldogs. Both Boone — his pals drop the “T” — and Madeleine spent some time in the press box. They seemed nice.) Three years ago the oilman gave the OSU athletics department $165 million. The refurbished edifice Georgia will enter on Sept. 5 is, you’ll be shocked to discover, named Boone Pickens Stadium.
TBP is already on record as believing his Cowboys will enter their regular season finale against Oklahoma unbeaten. Sittler quotes Pickens thusly: “I know I stuck my neck out in that Tulsa World column when I said we’re going to be 11-0. And I still believe that’s what we’re going to be, but it’s going to be tough getting there. We have to beat Georgia first if we’re going to be 11-0, so I think we’re going to win that game.
You’ll also be shocked to know I have some experience being on the wrong end of a projected blowout. I picked the Rams to beat the Patriots 42-3 in Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Patriots not only beat my 39-point spread but won the doggone game. So now I’m thinking T. Boone might have jinxed his ‘Boys. And, since I’ve also picked OSU, jinxed me.
Great, I say. Just great. Give a guy $3 billion and he thinks he owns the world.
(Oh, and here’s another column on T. Boone, this by Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman. If her name rings a bell, there’s a reason. Her column provoked the infamous Mike Gundy rant, for which we should all be eternally grateful.)
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Coke is #1
August 21st, 2009
1:47 pm
Florida 49
Georgia 10
SmartDawg
August 21st, 2009
1:48 pm
If GA shuts them down and wins 45-0. Will Willie get any love? Willie is our coach lets support him. I actually am not a big fan of his but I do not think you will see the same defense as GA put on the field last year. Give em hell defense. The GA offense will run wild at OSU.
Yellowfuzz
August 21st, 2009
1:51 pm
I like to pick my nose and have tickle piles;)
ORANGEPOWER
August 21st, 2009
1:51 pm
Yeah, a previous poster mentioned kendall hunter’s poor production in the last two games of 2008 versus OU and Oregon.
The thing to keep in mind is this: Kendall was injured prior to the OU game. He played hurt and still had 84 yards rushing and 46 receiving, not a bad outing when considering that OU has good defensive personnel. Kendall then had surgery just before christmas and played against oregon while still recovering. The injury and surgery is why he didnt have a bigger game against Oregon.
Kendall hunter is a good back. Nobody really slowed him down until his injury. He had 160 yards in Austin versus Texas and 154 versus Mizzou on the road when Mizzou was ranked #3. Only 102 versus TTech on the road, but OSU fell behind early in that game due to turnovers and dumb plays and bad pass defense which forced them away from the running game.
Say what you want about big 12 defenses, but OU and Texas have the same caliber of athletes as UGA. OU’s Dline is superior to Georgia’s.
Hunter is a good back.
reservoirDAWG
August 21st, 2009
1:59 pm
Well if T Boone is going to make predictions I will to. Pokes 6 Dawgs 777.
How2fish
August 21st, 2009
2:02 pm
WTF…you haven’t won a bowl game in 18 years….have rings made after winning 1 out of 7 games and want to talk smack…what all of you bugs keep forgetting is your the 3rd or 4th best team in the lowly ACC…hell is coming and he’s wearing Red and Black….
lazydawg
August 21st, 2009
2:03 pm
T.Boone has been sniffing to much Gasoline, please get him some help they may not get that many yards.
Dawg'em out!
August 21st, 2009
2:07 pm
lookout pokes these Dawgs will have a vicious bite back on Defense this yr. the offense will be very good again imo too. joe cox has a stable of rb’s behind him and knows the scheme CMR is running very well. a few young studs will shine in this game also, btw dont forget about the twin towers(aj green/marlon brown)!!!!!!!!!! i like UGA in this one, 34-24 DAWGS!
Ralph
August 21st, 2009
2:14 pm
That Pickens is a crazy old geezer. No chance UGA will get 24 points.
Ramblinwreck83
August 21st, 2009
2:20 pm
How2fish
We’ve won a bowl game, but obviously that just shows how inept you are. year’s 98-00 we had your number and better bowl wins. You dog fans tend to forget life before MR got there. Do you even remember why MR was hire and who was fired? I guess not. Typical UGA fan.
reservoirDAWG
August 21st, 2009
2:28 pm
Ramblinwreck, is 83 your iq?
Cuz
August 21st, 2009
2:29 pm
Orangepower, thanks for explaining his lack of production versus OU and Oregon. Hunter appears to be the kind of back we will be hearing about for years on Sundays. The point of my post is that OSU is not a one dimensional offense as may have been the case a few years ago. I think it will be a good game, I just think the Dawgs road warrior routine is in their favor.
How2fish
August 21st, 2009
2:44 pm
Ramblinwreck83 first you are mistaken I never said you had not won a bowl game YOU said the last time was Tech won a bowl was 1990..and who am I to argue with YOU..after all it looks like you know everything there is to know football…except that UGA OWNS Tech.!! See you in Nov…
Here we go again
August 21st, 2009
2:44 pm
Hey, remember when Jack Schitt and Eddie tried to call MB out on a grammar mistake and totally failed? Then they were completely humiliated by other posters and didn’t ever come back. That was hilarious. Let’s discuss this some more.
Also, I’m a Tech fan, but I think UGA’s gonna win this one. Nobody’s really giving them a chance this year, and I think the Big 12 is just a little overrated.
Dwyer for Heisman. Write it down.
GT
August 21st, 2009
2:51 pm
It is reality hijacked, there is no reason outside Georgia to even be talking about this game. A far more interesting game is being played in Atlanta, Bama and Va.Tech. OSU is not Southern Cal or even Penn State. The greatest trick in the college coach’s bag of tricks is to make a team they are playing look better than they are, it is what is wrong with the system. There are probably 10 teams in this area that can give UGA all they can handle and as long as they stay away from as many of those as they can the hype lives on.
Ramblinwreck83
August 21st, 2009
2:52 pm
Big tickle pile party at my house in midtown tomorrow. Saint Simons, m, yellowfuzz and Ramble On will be there. Dungeons and dragons afterwards.
reservoirDAWG
August 21st, 2009
2:53 pm
GT, you have to be kidding me.
dawgrific
August 21st, 2009
2:54 pm
By the way, let’s remember that those 3 wins (98-2000), 2 of which were based on BS calls at the end, were taken away because tech cheated with ineligible players. Also, I can’t say enough how pathetic tech people and their team are, when they win 1 in a row, and then run their mouthes like they went undefeated. Is it just me, or was their some sweet justice in the fact that we finished with a better record and higher ranking then the bumblers (and we considered the season disappointing-lol), even after their flukey and rare win against us. Nice behavior after the game, by the way, as it takes a great deal of class to vandalize Sanford Stadium as a way of celebrating your OH-SO-RARE win.
p.s. bring back Reggie Ball-PLEASE!
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3:08 pm
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LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
3:15 pm
GT, I guess teck would swap Jax State for OK State? How about Duke for Florida. How about Wake Forrest for LSU? You clearly know nothing about football so why are you on a football blog? teck is the most overhyped team in the country this year. This season will be a huge let down for knuckleheads like you.
Jefferson
August 21st, 2009
3:22 pm
So why is UGA better this year than last?
dawes
August 21st, 2009
3:34 pm
all your forks think that georgia is going 0-2 of your lost your mind and need to go see a doctor god help your
Camden Mark
August 21st, 2009
3:50 pm
Why the Dawgs will be better,or why media types are so often so wrong (Bradly).
1)No more “gunslinger” boneheaded QB
2)Healthy O-line
3) ” D-line
4)W.M. job on the line.
5)Pissed off talented defense in general
6)Thomas and Samuel,the new “Smash and Dash”.
7)5th year senior QB with a brain
I could go on but I’ll laeve it at that,anyone could the picture(except media types who pick us to lose to an overhyped 2nd class program).
Camden Mark
August 21st, 2009
3:57 pm
Pardon my typing,I’m in a hurry and the old fingers get a little crossed
DawgsRule
August 21st, 2009
4:00 pm
Ok State can’t match up with the speed and size of UGA—mark it down, the Dawgs win this game easy, pulling away in the second half with a couple of INTs. Ga 37 Ok St 20
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
4:40 pm
Who wants to play Lucky Pierre with me?
AndyD
August 21st, 2009
4:40 pm
T. Boone Pickens is F. Ucking Crazy
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August 21st, 2009
4:41 pm
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gators81
August 21st, 2009
4:56 pm
pickens has some nerve taking the fla/ga point spread…and applying it to another game!
doug
August 21st, 2009
4:58 pm
OSU does not have the horses to handle UGA for 4 quarters. We have to re-learn this stuff every year. Basically what the Cowboys and the press are saying is that OSU will beat UGA with one good offensive lineman, one good back and one good WR and the fact that Georgia is superior in every other category along with size depth, strength, overall talent means nothing. It must be Home field advantage that will beat Georgia because the dawgs have never played at LSU, Jacksonville,Tuscaloosa or Knoxville so it will be really tough to pull this one out. Georgia 38 OSU 20.
reservoirDAWG
August 21st, 2009
5:03 pm
gators81 never saw UF beat UGA when he was in school. hahahaha
HooBoy
August 21st, 2009
5:17 pm
Georgia will cover the spread.
BuzzKiller
August 21st, 2009
5:30 pm
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Cuz
August 21st, 2009
6:28 pm
Since we do so well in away games, I think we should use the white jerseys all the time. Time for a whiteout in Sanford. Who’s with me?
Monty
August 21st, 2009
6:40 pm
OSU makes Georgia look like football gods and then we hit S Carolina…
Spike
August 21st, 2009
8:02 pm
Cuz, I’m with you, baby!! Let’s roll!!
ghost dawg
August 21st, 2009
8:59 pm
How can anyone think UGA will lose? It won’ t even be close. UGA 45 OS 10. over before half time
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
9:20 pm
LOSERS!
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
9:20 pm
45-42
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
9:22 pm
reservoirDAWG,
Maybe you should get “offline” a while.
weston
August 21st, 2009
10:36 pm
Other than Ramble confessing on these very blogs to being a female, how can anybody, with an IQ over 12, actually read her comments and come away thinking it’s a male? All of her comments are juvenile and girly. If she’s a day over 17yo, then I’m Prince William. Or maybe she’s an old chick with a 17yo mental midget brain. lmao
I have an idea: if the dawgs beat OKST, then all of the Bugs will have to stay off the Dawg blogs (that includes Miss Teen Pimple Ramble) for an entire week till the next game. If the dawgs win the next game, the Bugs stay off the dawg blog for another week. Etc. Until the dawgs lose and then the teenagers can come back and pop pimples while they talk smack about our loss.
At the same time, dawgs stay off the yellow blog.
Pit Bull
August 21st, 2009
10:37 pm
You people are day dreaming! We were going to beat Bama too weren’t we. Now listen up. If you read the press releases coming out of Ok you would know Ok St. has been having the toughest summer camp ever. Fist fights and “old time” hard drills every day. They have something to prove after there last game last year when they played like Ga did all year except the bowl game (soft). They are going to hit the Dawgs right in the mouth the ‘whole game’. Dawgs will not hold up. Their camp was very easy compared to Ok Sts. I love the Dawgs and it will hurt, but Ok St. by 10 or more. Also SC will beat the Dawgs also. Dawgs just too soft under Martineze and Richt.
Seenitall
August 21st, 2009
10:44 pm
Dawgs lose, but beat Boone’s spread. Close game early. OSU gets lead in 2nd QTR, and UGA coaches panic. Shuck off discipline for athleticism. All speed and size, but can’t get two to work together. Defense hampered by having LBs and DBs share one pair of unpulled hamstrings. 27-17. Dawg Nation holds blog townhall and demands mass resignation of coaching staff. Team hunkers down with stodgy strategy for USC and loses 16-13. Wins start coming in game 3.
BruffDawg
August 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
If anyone has been reading about our camp, it has been one of the best in recent years. The “focus” has been there and we don’t have something to prove? If uga can get pressure early and succesfully run the ball the first two drives, OSU will CRUMBLE. They are a good team and im not doubting their ability. But now that the tailback duo of samuel (hard-nose downfield runner; anything but soft) and thomas (scatback with great vision) is set WATCH OUT! These dawgs may not win pretty with big scores, but they will be so refreshing from a competitive standpoint. The USC game is always close but therem is a reason for that; we ALWAYS warm up with a soft opponent. This year will be different and UGA gets its first lopsided victory over spurrier.
boss
August 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
This is the first time I’ve listened to and watched Gundy’s rant. After listening to the boob on 680, Jobhn K, you would have thought he was a lunatic. (”I’m a man, I’m 40.”.) BUT, I think John K is just proving his Gundy’s point, which is that the media just picks what they want and sensationalizes it. Go OK State, Go Jackets!!
icedawg
August 21st, 2009
11:12 pm
If the Dawgs were selected #1 preseason last year and “muffed” it (pun intended), then being picked this preseason to be so so means that they should do better than last year. No worries.
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
8:09 am
Icedawg,
Great logic. LOL. Pour me another Koolaid will you?
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
8:18 am
It feels GREAT to have dethroned the dogs (in humiliating fashion) last season. Preseason number one my azz! LOL. I look for history to repeat itself this year (45-22 in Atlanta).
Gator Land
August 22nd, 2009
8:24 am
reservoirDAWG,
“gators81 never saw UF beat UGA when he was in school. hahahaha”.
No, but he sure as hell has enjoyed seeing UF beatdown UGA for the 2 1/2 decades since! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Gator Land
August 22nd, 2009
8:25 am
Georgia = Florida’s bitch