Picker, I would think the answer to your question is that, if you begin the season ranked highly, you have time to overcome a loss.

I haven't seen the tie-breaker that determines which of our conference co-champs will go to the Fiesta, but if they are the same as last year's rules for determining which south champ went to the conference championship game, pre-season rankings are quite important; BCS rankings at the end of the season are highly dependant on poll rankings at the beginning of the season.

Since it's all speculation and not one game yet played, why not be #1. Another speculation might be that we/OU are as good as anyone in the nation - guess that's why we will be number 1 at the start of the season. Right now we are. Another might be that OSU will be just about as good and the December Bedlam game will therefore catapult the winner to the NC game.

We might also speculate that Mack Brown will coach Texas for 3 more years and then run for President. I would vote for him, compared to what we have now, he'd certainly lead the country somewhere positive. I wonder how long it would take to build a new Whitehouse in Austin. Mack would surely get my vote if Mitt Romney, Boren, or Stoops weren't running too.

I really do not like this time of the year, no football. I just can't get excited about the other sports, maybe a little UFC, football recruiting, or basketball is ok. Golf, tennis, baseball can not hold my interest.

The only thing that helps this time of year is warmer weather, in most years. This year has been too cold and too volatile. We're now in the middle of tornado season. Weather seems to worsen every year, hope no one gets hurt and it won't inhibit summer workouts.

Speaking of summer workouts, it's speculation that the summer workouts will continue unimpeded by all the regulatory auditors looking over the practices to ensure there is no mandatory hard work involved. This since a player complained and it made the newspaper, TV, and all sports media. It is an all volunteer effort you know. Then I also worry that impartial judges will attend the workouts to later find that they were really Florida State spies posing as officials.

It's nice to know that we have our priorities in order in this great nation. If we quit complaining, better lookout, there may be an open rebellion against big, brainless government imposing new taxes. Since NCAA athletics/football has created much revenue to colleges, I wouldn't be surprized to see some form of taxation against the universities. After all, Obama wants a playoff system. I just hope he focuses on the job ahead of him and reads a book on how to save money and reduce deficit. I really don't want his job.

The OKC THUNDER are in the midst of the NBA PLAYOFFS & the TW sports dept is concerned with football, no wonder Tulsa sports fans are as they are, it's because what they are fed is as it is.... Fantasy.... Stories about an out-of-season sport where the champion is a MYTHICAL national champion....

Nothing real here folks, it's just your imagination, move on please, nothing to see here....

Good call truth...no one in Oklahoma is interested in the Thunder...all those empty seats in the arena Sunday night, probably wont even sell out tonight...get a life dude.

Zero U was the most consistantly overrated team in the country the last 5 years, per an article in CBS online last year. It will happen again this year, this remeinds me of when ND use to always be ranked in the top 3.
Hopefully someone will put them out of our misery early early early.

Football meatheads are entertaining, especially when they all begin their Gooner, Stoolwater diatribes against one another....

It's all so Okie endearing....

Great point, Mr. Picker. Only two of the past 13 pre-season number one teams won the national title, FSU in 1999 and USC in 2004. The best comment was the one made by Gene M.