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 ‘All our exes live in ….’ (let’s check on the ex-Sooners)

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I recommend OU football fans not watch replays of USC’s 41-28 victory over Stanford.

Mow the yard. Paint the baseboards in the bathroom.

Watch The Waterboy for the zillionth time.

Do anything but watch the lovefest that is USC football, the all-star transfer team of 2022.

Caleb Williams now has the second-best odds (behind Ohio State’s CJ Stroud) to win the Heisman at FanDuel Sportsbook. His odds are +300, meaning if you plunk down $100, you’d win $300.

Last week, his odds were +600.

BTW, the odds on OU’s Dillon Gabriel is +5000.

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I’ll be channeling my dad against the Irish

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Back in the 1950s, like most everyone else in Oklahoma, Dad was a serious OU football fan.

On fall Saturday mornings, he and one of his buddies from Eufaula would load into the Chevy, pull onto Highway 9 and journey to Norman to watch Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners ring up another victory.

I know this because Dad told me.

And I saw his collection of game programs, which proved he’d been at the games. He owned boxes full of game programs, all in good condition. Dad kept them stacked neatly in his rolltop desk.

He let me, an 8-year-old who didn’t know better, sort through them.

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