the college football season begins tonight. this is my favorite time of year, and probably my wife's least favorite. don't get it twisted - my wife is a college football fan. she goes to the games, wears the gear, cheers with all her might. she just can't stand that, if given the option, i would sit on my couch from 8 a.m until midnight or whenever the latest game ends on a saturday while on moving to (a) go to the bathroom, (b) get food or drink or (c) go to the bathroom when eating or drinking.
we are headed to norman on friday to go the sooners season opener. the only thing about the beginning of the season i don't like are all the predictions. i mean really, how much do these people know. there are 100+ teams with 75+ players on each team and almost nothing of their practices is watchable. so what are they basing their predictions on? it is a bunch of non-sense and gives me tired head.
this makes me most nervous when they talk about ou. especially given that out of most of what i read about the picks for the national championship game - more that 50% of the experts expect ou to be there. that always scares me. and then when several people pick ou to win the national championship, i usually begin to weep.
ou has been very good the last several years at falling just short of the championship. i.e. sugar bowl against lsu, orange bowl against usc. i get upset because i tend to buy into that hype and when we stumble i feel like the season is lost. when we lost our first game last year - i thought oh no! 2007 is a waste. but it wasnt. we had a great year (with a horrible ending against wvu). when the fact is ou is consistent. we are a top program every year that bob stoops has lead the program. i mean really - how can you complain about 5 big 12 conference championships out the 6 times we have played for it. 3 national championship games.
i say all that to say i can't wait to see what 2008 has in store for sooner nation. i say bradford or murray for heisman. go ou!
*UPDATE: I watched all three games that were on TV last night and here are my thoughts.
baylor/wake forest: baylor is terrible, but their qb is really quick. that worries me because we play them and once upon a time it took us several overtime periods to beat them at our place!
nc state/south carolina: that concussion the nc state qb suffered look very scary. the game was so so. i think in total there was 8 ints.
orgeon state/stanford: two bad teams on one bad network for college football (fox sports).