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Is This Lincoln Riley’s Rivalry Game?

You want to hear something funny? This isn’t even the first time Lincoln Riley has played Missouri State.

Oklahoma faced Missouri State in its 2020 season-opener and won, 48-0.

Maybe Riley wants to play Missouri State every year to replace Notre Dame.

One thing to remember: USC remains the only NCAA FBS (Division I-A) school that has never played a FCS (non-Division I-A) opponent (since the divisions were formed in 1978). UCLA and Notre Dame used to be able to claim that but no longer.

This is Missouri State’s first game as an FBS school and it has joined Conference USA.

24 thoughts on “Is This Lincoln Riley’s Rivalry Game?”

      1. Plow,

        I still live in the SC world where they totally dominated on both sides of the ball. I see the offense running the ball down the opponents throats and I see the defense just shutting down their offense. If I am living in a dream world, let me know. I am hoping hope against hope that SC becomes its former self and just annhilates the opponents like the Carroll, Robinson, and Mckay years.

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  2. Does coach Pneumonia know mighty Missouri State is now a FBS school ?

    BTW, didn’t someone on this blog, ahem, already point out that Coach Pneumonia had already played Missouri State when he was at Oklahoma?

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  3. KAM: Tranny who wanted to assassinate Trump shoots up Minnesota Church this morning, killing at least two children and injuring 14 children and three adults. Democrat Fake News Media complex tries to blame Trump, the church and people praying for the victims.https://x.com/theblaze/status/1960745439369802079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1960745439369802079%7Ctwgr%5Ea82300c3eb115cbe63b558a41ee4320c845d3339%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F08%2Fpure-evil-potential-trans-minneapolis-catholic-school-shooter%2F..

    DON: The Democrats and Fake News will make this go away now that they know the perp was another Democrat Tranny.

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  5. KAM: : Could you imagine back in the summer of 2005, fresh from our annihilation of the Sooners, and 3 deep at every position in the OL, that we would be grasping at straws about our offensive line in 2025?

    DON: What a revolting development!

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    1. No different than if you had told people in 2005 that in 2020 we would elect dementia to be our President. They’d have told you you were nuts.

      But it happened.

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    2. Well losing 10 scholarship a year for three years didn’t help. Tough to develop depth under those circumstances. And of course T.V. revenue and bowl appearances took a dive. A bit of a recruiting handicap. Thanks NCAA, and particularly Paul Dees and of course Reggie Bush for the demise of a once great program. Hope it was worth it Reggie. Couldn’t wait a few months to get the money legitimately. The guy destroyed a program, never apologized for it, and still has his jersey retired. And now he is suing USC.

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      1. Anyone reading your list of horribles has to appreciate what Lane Kiffin accomplished that year he went 10-2 [wrapping up the season with a 50-0 victory over UCLA]….

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      2. KAM: Don’t you remember AD Pat Haden crowing about how Lane Kiffin had out-foxed the NCAA and frontloaded recruiting in 2011 to soften the blow?https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2012/11/02/southern-california-lane-kiffin-ncaa-sanctions/1674875/lol

        DON: Those were the days even lowly UCLA romped over us three years in a row with their running QB Bret Hundley. Luckily for us Jim Mora fell in love with immobile drop back passer Josh Rosen and their program imploded.

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      3. Mora “falling in love” and “imploding with Rosen”? […And here I thought it was with a blond cheerleader]……

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  6. DON: Thiis time of year armed with hope, Trojan fans believe 2025 ‘might’ bring back some of that SC football glory

    KAM: Those McKay and Carrot runs, and throw in Robinson’s national championship, Troy has nothing to gripe about

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    1. KAM: Except it has been 20 years since the last carrot NC.

      DON: Nothing but heartbreak and disappointment since. None of the current players on the football team can remember when USC was a national power.

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  7. DON: It is almost Memorial, I mean Labor Day weekend

    KAM: Got it, you don’t miss much, do you? By the way, why do they call it “labor” day when no one is working-

    DON: Someone will be working. I don’t take days off, at best I take a half day to play a round

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    1. KAM: Former Counsel to House Democrats Julian Epstein Says the Democrat Party Has Become a ‘Cult That Worships Weird Progressive Idols! Epstein said, “I think what I was watching yesterday looked more like a Star Trek convention. This is a party that has almost no self-awareness. The approval numbers, two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the party. Their fundraising numbers, the voter registration numbers are all dropping through the floor as the party associates itself with things like gender sterilization for minors, open borders, high crime.

      The party is almost becoming like a cult that worships these weird progressive idols.

      DON: So true!

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  8. DON: Baseball-wise, the Dodgers’ Otani, is that how you spell it, the ‘O’ is rounding into pitching shape but will it be enough?

    KAM: I played a little baseball in my time. Nothing quite like making bat-contact with a pitched ball

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    1. Feeling thee ball in the center of your tennis racket is pretty good…. but, forgive me for this, the strongest [not necessarily the “best”] feeling is the one you get when you feel the jawbone of a tough opponent right through your 10 ounce boxing glove.

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    1. KAM: WHAT IS A WOMAN?

      Sorority wins case against Wyoming sisters who sued after man admitted to sisterhood as judge refuses to define ‘woman.’

      US District Judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by former and current members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at the University of Wyoming, which argued that the organization violated its bylaws by admitting a trans-identifying male as a member of the female-only sorority.

      Judge Johnson ruled on August 22 that the sorority has the autonomy to dictate how it wants to define the word “woman,” arguing that the Courts should not interfere with the internal governance of private organizations.

      “Having considered the issues presented (again), we find that the majority of the claims must be dismissed on the grounds that this Court still may not interfere with [the sorority’s] contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws,” Judge Johnson wrote in the final ruling, per Wyoming Public Radio.

      The complaint was previously dismissed by Judge Johnson in August 2023, but without prejudice, allowing the sorority members to re-file the suit.

      The plaintiffs argued in the second filing that President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order on “Defending women from gender ideology” defines the word “female” as a “person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.”

      “We dismissed that complaint without prejudice on the grounds that the sorority was free, as a private organization, to define the word ‘woman’ in its bylaws however it wanted,” Johnson wrote in an order, referring to the initial lawsuit, “and therefore the sorority was not contractually obligated to reject transwomen members.”

      DON: Tranny loving Democrats imposing their vile values even on the Greek System.

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      1. How can you say that?! Every young woman in Kappa Kappa Gamma has been given the opportunity to enjoy the presence of a 300 pound, unshaved, fully erect goofball sharing the bathroom with them.

        #DiversityMakesThemStronger

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  10. DON: The start of a new football season, there is no better feeling.

    KAM: And some good games this Saturday, too close to call for most of them except the SC game

    DON: Are they skipping the season and getting right to the 2025 National Championship Game with Texas at Ohio St?

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