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It’s still very early in this college football season, but on Saturday night in Oxford we as college football fans got about as good as it’s going to get this season.

This was one of those ABC Game of the Weeks that met all the hype and then some. Trinidad Chambliss in essence did what I hoped he would do by taking down the boorish punk Lane Kiffen 32-24 while reminding all of us TC was the best player in college football last season and so far this season.

Since we don’t currently have offense this season in Norman, please pardon me if I vicariously live through Trinidad this college football season.

If this guy isn’t the runaway front-runner for this season’s Heisman so far…then they should stop handing out the trophy.

Yeah, so I guess Trinidad’s greatness wasn’t exclusive to the punkish Lane Kiffen being his head coach or play-caller.

It’s early in the SEC demolition phase of their season, and injuries and things like that could derail Trinidad, but I mean, this start by Ole Miss coupled with his breathtaking play in last season’s College Football Player has me emotionally okay even if OU’s offense never gets out of gate. Not really, but I can play that game if I have to.

Maybe what Ben Arbuckle should consider is taking a few wrinkles from the Ole Miss offensive playbook. John Mateer is moblie…get him out there in space rolling out right if his o-line can’t protect him. Run some delayed QB draw scramble plays. Use his legs. Those huge strong weight-lifting, squat-lift legs of his.

And blocking…that would be a nice concept to introduce to the OU players. When you block a defender…what does that generally accomplish?

Coach Mike’s answer: It in theory gives your playmakers the opportunity to have sufficient time and space to MAKE PLAYS.

You see what the Divine Love Swami has done here, right?

What I’ve done is talk about the dreadful OU offense on this Trinidad post simultaneoulsy so as it can emotionally balance my depression in relation to OU’s feeble play on the offensive side of the ball these past two weeks.

This way…I don’t even have to talk about the OU offense this week heading into the Georgia game in Athens.

One other thing before I log off on this post…in case you didn’t notice– the Tulsa Golden Hurricane blew out East Texas A&M by the score of 42-0 this past Saturday to improve to a perfect 3-0 start this football season. Congrats to Coach Tre Lamb and his squad.

Next up for me…will be my takes on Ajay Mitchell as my No. 7 ranked Thunder player heading into this 2026-27′ NBA season.

Complete and unconditional love.

MJ

It would appear I’m not the only person in the state of Oklahoma not pleased with Ben Arbuckle’s offensive coordinating performance in Ann Arbor. My feel is Ben Arbuckle will be coaching for his job the remainder of this season, perhaps the next five weeks to be more exact. Good for Barry Tramel for having the balls to ask that singular prescient question after the offensive-ugly Michigan loss.

Tramel the aged scribe of Oklahoma Territory is the only one in the Oklahoma sports media who ever asks the tough questions when it needs to be asked.

Sam Anderson should have had a place for him in Boom Town.

But this isn’t the place or time for that, besides as we witnessed in Stillwater last Saturday… perceptions can change in a hurry in the world of NIL-Transfer Portal college football.

Maybe Duck coach Dan Lanning was on an LSD acid trip when he went for it on that last fourth and six down gamble, we’ll never know…only that it was the most stupid singular coaching decision the Swami can remember in quite some time.

It feels way, way too hot in Oklahoma for me to even be writing about the Thunder and NBA basketball, but it’s not that far off before we in Oklahoma are focused on the Thunder’s upcoming season.

In my Thunder player evaluations… I have Isaiah at No. 5 and Chet at No. 6 even though Chet is on a max contract deal and was the second player taken in his draft class and participated in last February’s All-Star Game.

Actually, is’s probably more like Isaiah 5a and Chet 5b with me. Situational…matchup players depending on the opponent. Chet with his offensive Caitlin Clark-like skill set will look like the more polished and skilled players against the twenty-five or so ‘pretty’ teams in the NBA who have little if any chance of winning the O’Brien Cup

But here’s the thing, even with Isaiah’s limited offensive skill-set tool box…if JDub is healthy…it’s Isaiah I want as my center if the opponent is San Antonio, the Knicks, the Nuggets with Jokic, the T-Wolves, and maybe the Cavs or some surprise team in the East we’re not considering just yet.

Boston and Detroit we have to see first. Then perhaps Atlanta and Toronto. Miami we’ll just to wait and see as well. How’s that team going to look?

But in the West…most of us are looking for another Thunder-Spurs showdown in the Western Conference Finals.

And if and when we get there eight or so months from now…I want Isaiah as the Thunder’s center with much physical support from JDub, Caruso, and company as far as using lower body levarge on Mr. Wemby when that time of spring arrives.

Chet will look skilled and pretty in the regular season with his offense, but when it comes down to grind time…it’s Isaiah I want out on the floor..and if it’s with Chet out there that’s fine. But Sam Presti agrees with me. He saw more than enough in the Western Conference Finals. Hence Isaiah’s new extended Thunder contract. Sam Presti is buying time and he knows it.

That’s why Chet is No. 5b on my list heading into this NBA regular season.

If you put Caitlin Clark, Kevin Durant, and Chet Holmgren in a cage fight…who wins? See the Swami’s point and you don’t even have to pay for those type of insights on okcthunderground.com

It’s nearing the shank of Wednesday evening out here on the Deer Creek mini-ranch. It felt like another hundred degree day to this Yogananda Guru Swami and it’s hump day…I need an optimistic song to pull me through to Saturday for the Ole Miss-LSU game. A song of some sort of love could be refreshing.

Eternal divine love,

MJ Yogananda

There’s a reason I did not cover the season opening 51-0 Sooner win over UTEP, and as we witnessed in this game at Ann Arbor… why I don’t cover games like that one or draw early season conclusions from a potentially good team playing a grossly inferior team showed itself this past Saturday.

Here’s what I think I know about the Sooners moving forward after their tough 17-10 loss at Michigan:

1 I think OU has a top ten defense. OU played most of the game without their best defensive player in Kip Lewis and basically shut Michigan down in the second half. The Wolverines had 75 yards of offense after intermission and if not for what in essence was a Pick Six in the fourth period…I feel pretty confident OU’s defense wou,ld have continued to contain Michigan.

2 It’s a cliche, but OU turned over the ball twice…one led to a Pick Six of sorts, and the other kept OU’s Lou Groza Award placekicker, Tate Sandel, from kicking for what for him would have been a modest field goal. That’s a net -10 result on turnovers. There’s little chance you win on the road in the Big House with that singular dynamic in play. Michigan did not have a turnover.

3 John Mateer…I’m not going to blame John Mateer for this loss even though the Pick Six was an egregiously bad play for the Sooners. If I write this once …..I’ll probably write it more than a dozen times this college football season. Blocking creates space and time for the playmakers…OU to become a dramtically better blocking team across the field.

4 OU’s offensive line gets a C- or D+ from me, they couldn’t control the line of scrimmage to establish a running game. OU’s running game cannot singularly be John Mateer throwing his body into harm’s way. There was much pre-season talk about OU’s O-Line being much improved. Enough of that talk…let’s see it on the field.

We saw no such improvement on Saturday. OU’s left tackle was literally eaten alive for most of the game off the edge pass rush. That’s why Michael Lewis wrote the Blind Side…that’s why for a right-handed QB your left tackle has to be special. I’m not naming that player because he was an emergency fill-in for who should have been in that spot. Not an excuse. That second guy’s gotta be better. Bill Bedenbaugh has to pull this group together…in a HURRY.

5 Offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle…I don’t nitpick generally on offensive play-calling. I’ll just write this though… Bill Bedenbaugh and Ben Arbuckle to strongly get the message across to the offense they aren’t in any way pulling their weight.

6 I thought OU’s special teams we’re solid. Satenga couldn’t get loose on a punt return, but otherwise the place-kicking and puntingwere excellent. OU’s special teams are Top Ten as well as the defense.

My helmet stickers go 1 Taylor Wein, 2 Grayson Miller-punter, 3 Rocky Beers, 4 Owen Heineke, and 5 Reggie Powers. Reggie is going to need to be special on the edge pass rush if Kip Lewis is significantly hampered by his knee injury. So…one offensive Sooner made my top five and he’s a transfer player.

See what I’m implying above about the offensive side of the ball and leadership…so to speak. If I’d picked another offensive player it would have been RB Lloyd Avant from Colorado State.

MJ may need to give the OU offensive returners the Al Pacino pep talk some time soon.

Actually…how about right now because New Mexico isn’t horrible…then there’s Texas and Georgia. Just saying.

I don’t feel like a Divine Love Guru on here after that type of offensive performance. Help me out here a little guys.

Mike J

I would just say we should all pray for our country today. We unfortunately didn’t learn anything from 9/11. Not a thing.

That’s it from me today. This isn’t the time to write anything political.

We should all just pray for our country…really, really hard and try to love our neighbors if nothing else. Let’s keep it simple if we can.

On another note…we received 1.2 inches of precip at the Deer Creek mini-ranch yesterday and woke up this morning to a wonderful 68 degrees. We have five to six deer who along with the wild turkeys come almost to the back porch area for their morning feeding and meditation with MJ. This morning was especially wonderful with the cooler temps.

Love thy neighbors and love all thy nature which surrounds you.

I’m thinking of doing some sort of meditation prayers here on the blog sometime in the near future… especially for the Trump fake Christians so as to possibly give them an alternate exit ramp from the materialistic grip of hell. Not to be prostelizing or preaching on a an underground Oklahoma City Thunder blog mind you, but more in the spirit of just reaching out to you lost souls. It’s never too late to make amends for your sins.

Eternal love, MJ Yogananda

Let me write this first…I’m treading very gently on college football heading into the OU-Michigan game. The whole LSU nonsense with the SEC and the extra second in Ann Arbor have me a little dizzy coming out of the gate. Plus…the fact O State reportedly payed $23 million this season towards football and still wasn’t competitive against Tulsa makes evaluations a little tricky.

So for right now… I’m just stabilizing my meditative breathing technique and going very slowly and not making too many rash comments in regards to college football in this month of September circa 2026.

I have Cason Wallace as my No. 4 rated Thunder player on my ratings list heading into camp. From my view… the Thunder’s three best players in the San Antonio-WCF Finals series were…1 Shai, 2 Alex, and 3 Cason.

It’s a big season for Cason as he finally gets to start with the departure of Lu Dort. Plus, Sam Presti is going to have to give Cason a rookie contract extension which is going to be expensive for the Thunder. Cason is in a very coveted position with GMs throughout the NBA. It going to take some coin to keep Cason in Oklahoma City.

He’s an excellent two-way player who when given the opportuntiy is going to become a star in this league.

At the end of the day…I don’t see how Sam Presti keeps Shai, JDub, Chet, and Cason. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think at some point…a very tough decision is going to have to be made by Sam Presti in regards to Chet versus being able to keep both Cason and Ajay Mitchell.

So now the Thunder have two of John Calipari’s former players manning the backcourt. Last seaon when Shai missed some games due to injury…Cason was outstanding in those games as a starter. I think he can even play some quality point guard minutes when needed. He truly is a hybrid guard in the basketball vernacular.

He’s just a beautiful amalgam (look it up) of basketball skills. From my view he’s a six skill, two-way basketball player who when placed alongside Shai and JDub in the starting lineup is going to shine even brighter.

I loved Lu Dort. Cason is not as physical defender as Lu, but otherwise… I have to give the nod to Cason overall as a basketball player. With Lu’s departure it’s critical for JDub and Alex to stay healthy so as to be physicality warriors on this basketball team along with Isaiah.

I know this isn’t the NHL or NFL, but you have to have three or four guys like the ones I just mentioned who could be football or hockey players. You gotta have those type of guys. I think eventually Barnhizer will be that type of player as well…but with him being more of a limited role player.

So having written all this…I’m seriously debating whether I should play my OU Greatest Football Physical Hits of All-Time at this juncture of the college football season as I normally do.

I’m leaning towards yes. But at the end of the day…you gotta be who you gotta be when you take that field even with the thoughts of eternal love wafting inside the helmet.

Love, MJ

Our first week-end of college football is behind us. Corruption from the SEC and the Big Ten feels omnipresent. Sadly, our sport of college football appears to contain about the same level of human filth as a Trump cabinet meeting featuring the comments of part-time Fox week-end host Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth trying to explain why Iran is still holding the world hostage six months after declaring a resounding victory rings about as hollow as those corrupt Big Ten officials trying to explain that last extra second ‘given’ to Michigan this past Saturday in Ann Arbor.

Concurrently… we have Lane Kiffin and the Swamp People in Baton Rouge holding the ‘sport’ of college football hostage, while those kids at Western Michigan were basically treated as sub-human level participants in the sport. Money has corrupted every aspect of life in our country…and I’ve yet to even mention the LA Clippers’ latest disgracing of the NBA on this blog. From Donald Sterling to Steve Balmer…right?

Suffice it say…too much money and power corrupts. Period.

I need something ‘somewhat’ solid, honest, and tangible on the blog today to get me through this heat wave and morass of moral dissipation all around me in a brazingly red Trump state like Oklahoma. Another reason beyond cancer why I’ve embraced the meditative world of inner-self realization.

This has nothing whatsoever with OU playing at Michigan this coming Saturday…it has more to do with MJ attaining a consistent state of emotional nirvana amongst the human rabble.

I thought for my own sake of emotional balance… as a Kriya yogi Yogananda guru… I’d play Alex Caruso’s exit interview after the Thunder’s tough seven game series defeat to the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals.

I just need something, ‘anything, to steady me today after listening to the first hour of Jim Traber’s show this afternoon.

Listening to either Alex or Shai usually calms me. Much like Nick Collison did back when he was playing for the Thunder.

Like me…Alex doesn’t sound like the world has come to an end for the Thunder. JDub and Ajay just needs to get healthy, while Chet needs to earn his paycheck.

I don’t feel like closing with a Yogananda ending today. Maybe tomorrow evening as the heat wave ends in Oklahoma would be that appropriate time.

Eternal wisdom and love to all,

MJ Yogananda

I’m in a wonderful little space right now. I am. Last Monday I took my first blood lab in four months. This was my first lab since I was pulled off both chemo and the two previous drone radiation treatment. Plus, Dr. Showalter ordered up a PSA specific Pet Scan. One one-hundred and twenty days with no chemo or radiation treatments.

On Wednesday… Dr. Showalter and I conferred about the results. I will admit I was nervous because in no way did I want to go back on chemo. The infusion chemo is like being put into a near state of death, then slowly waking back up and returning to life 96 hours later. Plus, I like having hair. I’m not one of these fake tough-guy macho Oklahoma warriors who drive their Ford 150 pickups around with their head shaved like they’re fff-ing Yul Brenner or something. I enjoy having hair.

Dr. Showalter smiled, said, “You’re in complete remission. Your PSA has continued to drop. In fact, it’s dropped so low it’s under the lowest metric of measurable PSA on the scale. Your cancer is gone.”

Then he showed me the PSA scan. Perfect with the writing in the lower left corner…’Patient is in complete remission.’

I exhaled, in a good way, and then asked, “Does this mean I won’t see you any more?”

“Not the case. Every three months we’ll continue with the PSA blood lab and the Exeva shot to to continue to repair your bone marrow,” Dr. Show replied. ”

Thank you, Dr. Showalter. Seriously, thank you for everything. It was a journey. But in the overall picture…I’d say it was one which has made me a better human. I somewhat needed a reset of sorts. Thank you for giving me a chance to get to know my grand-children.”

“I’m happy for you, Mike. That 1,212 is a number we’ve all been talking about around here for awhile. This was something special. Enjoy your life.”

“We will. I’ll see you in December.”

The Stage 4 cancer journey is on a different path for the time being so I’m done writing about cancer for awhile. Plus, I watched Trinidad Chambless and his mother last night on the ABC game…additionally my twenty-two hour protest statement strike against college football has ended as well.

Love,

Mike J

I’m an OU fan and they easily won 51-0 over a very weak UTEP team, but that in no way is what took hold of me after watching the O State-Tulsa, LSU-Clemson, and Western Michign-Michigan games.

You know…I already realized there was little if any governance left in college football, but this was too much on the first Saturday of the season. Let me add this as well, being I’m an aspiring Kirya Yogananda guru –as a gesture of love, kindness, and eternal goodwill I no way will write anything further on my blog this college football season in relation to the O State football program.

Good natured rivalry and trolling are one thing, but it would be a gesture of doing the complete opposite of everything I’ve holisticly embraced on my Stage 4 cancer miracle journey to degrade myself and my blog in any manner by covering Oklahoma State football.

So from me to O State Football Nation…as far I’m concerned there wasn’t a game in Tulsa yesterday. It never happened. Some might claim it did, but as far as this guru is concerned it was just an astral hallucination of sorts that Tre Lamb’s Tulsa team destroyed O State for a second straight football season.

Never happened and you won’t read me on this underground blog covering O State football any longer. It would be bullying at a time when we as a nation need profound love to engulf all of us as one.

As far as that last second in Ann Arbor…that never happeed as well and congratulations to the Western Michigan kids on an amazing 12-7 road win to begin their football season and put themselves in play for a Group of Five berth in the College Football Playoffs.

So how do I handle Lane Kiffin, the disgusting LSU Tiger football program, and the legitimacy of the SEC moving forward…I’m not quite sure yet in that I’m just a guru and not a god of any sort.

More deliberative thought will be needed on that one.

I’m taking a break from college football on Labor Day weekend this Sunday and Monday…Saturday was way too much for me coming out of the gate.

If we have no truth and justice in our lives we have nothing. You know what we then have..Donald Trump as a two term president.

Eternal love,

MJ Yogananda

It won’t be long as the college football season gets into gear this week-end. It’s hard for me to get amped about OU’s opener versus UTEP with the state in the midst of an iconic heat wave and drought.

But the Sooners will be one of my beats as usual this sports year of ’26-27′. In ernest I’ll get going on that front as we prepare for an immensely important game Week 2 in Ann Arbor.

O State with a healthy portion of last season’s North Texas State’s roster now playing under the guise of the ‘Brightest Shade of Orange should be a much better team this season especially on the offensive side of the ball. I’ll keep on eye on that track as well as Divison I football returns to Stillwater after a two-year death penalty implemented by both Mike Gundy and O State leadership.

The truth is the truth, and sometimes it hurts. But on this blog you get the truth. It was a self-inflicted death penalty because the NCAA doesn’t care enough to close anybody down given we now live in the Lane Kiffen era of college football. It was all self-inflicted. Period. End of paragraph.

Now…on to my first look at this OKC Thunder roster heading to pre-season camp.

1 Shai

2 J-Dub

3 Caruso

4 Wallace

5 Isaiah

6 Chet

7 Ajay

8 J-Ark

9 Jared McCain

10 Kenrich

11 Topic

12 Brook Barnhizer

13 Sorber or Aday

14 Aday or Sorber

So…I have one of Sam Presti’s max players listed in the No. 6 slot after last season’s Western Conference Finals. Maybe too draconian on my part? Here’s how I would respond to that thought … when needed, Chet did not engage. The end and every player in that locker room knows it.

We’ll just have to see how Coach Mark navigates this during the season. I’m sure Chet will be fine versus teams without Wemby, but no team will get past the Spurs in the West if there isn’t some resistence in both lanes on both ends of the floor near the rim.

Love and wisdom always my children, while time and perfection of flight are limitless in the cosmos. Never say or think never. The possibilities with self-realization are truly amazing.

MJ-JLS Yogananda

For me, this marks the end of the golf season. My two young guys from Oklahoma and O State were in a position to win this tournamnet making the turn to the back nine. But what we saw instead was Scottie Scheffer showing the entire golf world why he’s the best player in the world and why he will win the PGA Golfer of the Year for a fifth straight golf season.

Chris Gotterup and Viktor Hovand will look back with remorse when they take apart their back nines. I mean, when you’re playing Scheffler the ball off the tee needs to find the fairway. End of story.

Both young guys just really seemed to press once Scheffler captured the lead and in a sense didn’t give themsleves a chance to win the tournament.

You can’t spray the ball all over the course when Scottie Scheffler can smell the finish-line with the lead. You’re not going to hang with the guy burying the ball in deep rough.

So for Scottie Scheffler…congrats on being a golf dynasty these past five seasons in winning twenty-two tournaments and quite frankly separating from the rest of the PGA field with the possible exception of Rory’s resume to date.

Scottie won the Fed-Ex Tour Championship and Rory won the Masters in April. Rory actually played great the back nine, but three early bogies on the front nine torpedoed any real chance he had on Sunday in Atlanta.

If I were voting for player of the year… I’d go 1 Scottie, 2 Wyndam Clark (another ex- O State player), 3 Rory, 4 Chris Gotterup, and 5 Cam Young. I can’t really put Viktor on my list given how much he struggled at times this golf season. I think he’s on the cusp of greatness if he can just come to terms with when with what the next level requires mentally…shot in and shot out. I sound like Spec the caddy from Dead Solid Perfect.

A great season of golf and one would hope there won’t be another LIV tour or something of the like looming.

Everyone should play some golf if they can stay healthy and find the time. It’s a wonderful game.

Viktor and Chris … it’s all about mindset if you want to take down the best in the brightest lights on the biggest stage. But I’m certain that inner voice has already shared that thought with both of you guys though.

Golf is the ultimate mind game for sure.

I absolutely need to get my OKC Thunder roster ranking 1-14 done tomorrow before the start of the OU football season takes a hold of me.

It’s all about mindset, Viktor.

Mike J