{"id":4160,"date":"2013-11-11T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2013-11-11T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:02:41","slug":"sigh-its-oklahoma-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/sigh-its-oklahoma-week\/","title":{"rendered":"(sigh) It&#8217;s Oklahoma week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thatcutesite.com\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kitten_needs_hug-600x449.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"314\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(credit: ThatCuteSite)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the third year in a row, the Sooners will get to take their frustrations of a high-profile loss out on the Cyclones.\u00a0Hide the kids and pets.<\/p>\n<p>After Vanderbilt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/college\/gators\/os-gators-vanderbilt-game-recap-1110-20131109,0,1652927.story\">first victory since 1988 against Florida<\/a>\u00a0(and first since 1945 in Gainesville) on Saturday, ISU-OU moves up a notch in active streaks. The 14-game post-1990 winless streak is now the sixth-most among BCS teams by attempts* and fifth-longest by year among BCS teams who were conference mates before 1990.<\/p>\n<p>For a full recap of this storied-in-all-the-wrong-ways series, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/oklahoma.html\">I have updated my long piece from last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, next year&#8217;s ISU-OU game is the one on a flex schedule where it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209298567\">could be on a Thursday<\/a>, like this year&#8217;s Texas game. That would not end well.<\/p>\n<p>*Counting Alabama&#8217;s 1993 forfeit to Vanderbilt and vacated games there and elsewhere as losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(credit: ThatCuteSite) For the third year in a row, the Sooners will get to take their frustrations of a high-profile loss out on the Cyclones.\u00a0Hide the kids and pets. After Vanderbilt&#8217;s first victory since 1988 against Florida\u00a0(and first since 1945 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/sigh-its-oklahoma-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}