Magnitude Matters

[tl;dr - It is Ohio State, Alabama, and Oklahoma in the top 3 just about any way you cut it] As the spring semester starts so too does the o...

In late summer every football fan begins to dream about the season to come with aspirational hopes for one's team and general excitement...

Just a little exercise in futile thinking (aren’t we all doing a bit of that nowadays?). I would swap these  if I could .  My rough r...

Besides not going together as in: do not schedule your wedding in conflict with an OU football game and expect me to attend (the wedding). ...

It is about time that I updated my previous work on ranking college football programs. Recalling the methodology from before, I am attemp...

The game of football has changed in the couple decades in a fundamental way. Nowhere is this more acutely witnessed than in the college game...

Seven months ago to the day a new era in the storied history of Sooner football began. I posted about it here . This first season has ended....

About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner ...

It is time again to check on how I did in fulfilling my annual resolution . One word: success. Let me explain exactly how I mean. Ever sin...

If nothing else, sports enthusiasm is great for generating passionate debate about esoteric topics and hypothetical arguments. Within this r...

I beat up on coaches a lot. More in conversation than in this blog in fact. I've done my share of armchair, from the bleachers, and Mond...

This past weekend was Meet the Sooners Day for the Oklahoma Sooners football team as the kicked off the start of fall practice. I would ass...

Here is my take on a few sports results and sports-related news. From my perspective these are three stories of losing. First the big one ...