Look who's in love with OU
Published: 8/25/2007 4:23 PM
Last Modified: 8/25/2007 4:23 PM
ESPN has been Oklahoma's Public (Television) Enemy No. 1 since 2003.
That's the year the Total Sports and Poker Network tried to cram Jason White's Heisman Trophy into the hands of wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald (Pitt played on ESPN, OU did not), and the year Mike Lupica went on the Sports Reporters and falsely attacked Bob Stoops for the 77-0 Texas A&M debacle.
Well, four years later, it appears everyone's ready to kiss and make up.
No fewer than three of the four GameDay analysts picked the Sooners to play for the 2007 national championship Saturday morning. Lou Holtz had OU wearing the crown after beating USC in New Orleans, while Kirk Herbstreit picked the Trojans over the Sooners and Lee Corso went with LSU over OU.
As a consolation prize, Mark May called the Big 12 for the Sooners and fawned all over DeMarco Murray.
That's a whole lotta love, and it's not quite shared nationally.
The pundits at SI.com like USC and LSU in the national championship, like Texas to win the Big 12 championship, and slot the Sooners in the Sugar Bowl opposite Florida.
Mike Huguenin, the college football writer for the Orlando Sentinel, also favors a USC-LSU BCS final, though he does pick OU to win the Big 12 and face Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl.
Last on the Sooners' thank-you list are the folks at CBSSportsline.com, who make Texas the Big 12 winner, Texas A&M the Big 12 No. 2, and banish OU to the Gator Bowl to play Florida State.
That's a 2001 national championship rematch we could all live without.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
