SOONERGUYS Blog

The game and the audience last Saturday night can only be described as, well . . . overwhelming.

Going into the Sooners’ contest against the Red Raiders in Norman, OU had three objectives:

1) Flush Graham Harrell’s Heisman hopes.  Well, check on that one.

2) End Texas Tech’s national championship chances.  Yep. Check on that one too.

3) Score 65 points (yeah that was a goal).  Check.

All that happened. And in large part, it happened because this Sooner team was very inspired by a fan base that went nuts in Memorial Stadium on a cold November night, thanks to Coach Bob Stoops’ “call to arms” speech earlier in the week that the Sooner faithful really weren’t very loud.

Stoops certainly gets an A+ in motivation. And many fans didn’t even know they were being motivated at the time.

Now we’re in a three-way tie for the Big 12 South. Oklahoma must defeat Oklahoma State in hostile Stillwater on Saturday night (again on ABC-TV); but if that is accomplished then it will be up to the BCS gurus to figure out which of the three, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech, will travel to ice-laden Kansas City and play Missouri for the Big 12 championship.

Should Oklahoma be ranked ahead of Texas, even though the Longhorns defeated the Sooners 45-35 just last October?  Well, yes. After all, those were the early primaries. Now we’re talking about the big one — the general election. And just like President-elect Barack Obama came on strong in the home stretch, the Sooners are the hottest team in college football. They destroyed No. 2 Texas Tech 65-21, for goodness sake. And Tech’s a pretty saucy team!

But before we count our chickens — it is Bedlam time.