It appears we have a strong freeze and northern winds heading our way by Sunday afternoon at the Deer Creek mini-ranch. No. 12 OU is off this week-end with a week of rest from taking on Division I’s toughest football schedule.
I’m a little worn as an avid Sooner football fan from having to deal with Michigan, a sneaky good Temple team which beat that Tulsa team which physically beat down O State on the road and has since not won a game themselves. Then there was Auburn which fired Hugh Freeze last Sunday. Then came the John Mateer injury. Then the game Michael Hawkins started against Kent State and did okay in a 42-0 win. Then of course, the game versus No. 10 Texas where John Mateer played hurt and probably shouldn’t have in retrospect. Then the shutdown road win at South Carolina against the No. 1 QB prospect in next spring’s NFL draft. Then the heart wrenching close loss to No. 6 Mississippi at home.
Then of course last Saturday’s big-time step up on the road win against then No. 14 Tennessee.
I know I need a break just like the players and coaches. Taking on a schedule of this magnitude is tough and the programs like Tulsa, UCO, and O State have no idea how tough it is to get up every week to take on a national power of sort.
After the break…on the road at Alabama, home versus Missouri, and home versus LSU. I’m not sure my Packers are playing a schedule this tough.
So is’s off to NW Arkansas with the wife to take in the amazing beauty of NW Arkansas as we hope to hit peak color before Sunday’s first winter front arrives.
And if by chance we get back in time Saturday night to see Porter’s 2-0 Sooners take on No. 21 Gonzaga on the road at 9:30 pm on ESPN 2 then I guess MJ will have to watch the basketball game.
Otherwise no sports for MJ on Friday or Saturday as we behold the autumnal beauty of the Ozarks at peak color ‘we hope’.
The beauty is beyond the pale.
Have a great week-end.
BOOMER!
MJ