Week 1 Ups and Downs
Minnesota Gophers. Yeah, they lost to a better Ohio State team, but they showed they could burrow through roots and rocks and other dirty things to make a game of it, showing how rodents are the most underrated of nasty animals in college football.
Nebraska. Scott Frost has placed the Huskers in a colder deep freeze than we could have imagined. But then again, with a name like that….
Bob Stoops. He made his debut on the Fox college football stage on Thursday night in Minnesota. Nice to see his blunt enthusiasm on the screen (and his plug for old buddy Kevin Wilson, the O-Coordinator at Ohio State who expertly called the plays in the Buckeye’s win over the Gophers.) Stoops will be at home for the OU-Nebraska game on September 18.
Sooners survive Green Tidal Wave 40-35 in ugly opener
Before kickoff Sooner fans clapped to the Tulane fight song being played by the Oklahoma band.
And when the Tulane team came onto the field the crowd — in attendance numbers reduced by the last minute moving of the game to Norman because of Hurricane Ida and no doubt also by COVID concerns — gave them a warm ovation.
Not a single boo was heard. Not even from the student section. That is something unheard of in recent memory.
But those fans began to wonder whether their charitable nature was being taken advantage of by the fourth quarter, when the Green Wave had the Sooners backs against the wall and it took a much-needed defensive stand to keep Tulane from upsetting No. 2 Oklahoma.