Ahhhh! Another weekend of college football has come and gone.

I will get to the Oklahoma - Middle Tennesseee State game in a second. But I want to retrace, just for a moment, to last weekend. There are still quite a few people out there making comments about Oklahoma - Oregon game last weekend. I want to throw a few things out there and then I will bury it on this site.

 "Bob Stoops needs to shut up and move on."

Bob Stoops has moved on (evidence in a moment) but will answer questions from the media. If this is what the media wants to ask about then Stoops is responding. He has said more than once that he wants to move on but reporters continue to seek his opinion and he responds. Perhaps the comment should be, "The press needs to move on."

"Oklahoma still gave up a touchdown and had a field goal blocked after the two bad calls."

Yes, they did. Let me throw all of those who make that comment this assessment. You are talking about 18, 19 and 20 year olds. The defense has done its job (in whatever way that was, stopping Oregon, letting Dixon run 16 yards for score, but, you know!). The on-side kick gives OU the ball. Offense runs out the clock, Oklahoma wins. Granted, that is assuming Oklahoma recovers the ball. But why wouldn't one assume that with all the "good hands people" you put out there. All of a sudden, on a horrible call, remember this was later supported by PAC 10, Oregon gets the ball back. Now you have to re-focus your defense, made up of 18, 19 and 20 year olds, to stop a pretty good offense, with not much field to work with, who has just received a huge emotional gift at home. Add a pass interference call that shouldn't have been pass interference and what do you have? You have 18, 19 and 20 year olds with their backs to the wall and it is closing in on them. The point to this is simple. I don't think anyone making that comment is considering the psyches of 18, 19 and 20 year olds in this adverse situation. It is so much easier to spout COULDA', SHOULDA' when you are not in that situation. I work with and coach high school athletes. Trust me, the emotional side of a situation has to be considered when making comments about kids performing at this age and in that situation. Just an observation from my perspective!

PAC 10 suspends officiating crew for one game. Only thing is we don't know when they will serve it.

As an educator, if you are going to discipline you need to do it when the situation you are disciplining for is fresh. The officials who worked the Oklahoma - Oregon game, who were suspended for one game, all worked this weekend in PAC 10 games. The head on-field official worked a nationally televised game. Due to manpower issues the suspensions will be served during the course of the season. They are grown men and they will remember. Whatever! Paper suspensions, not worth much. Again, my perspective. AND I AM DONE WITH OKLAHOMA - OREGON GAME!!!

Worried about getting re-focused for their game against Middle Tennessee State was on the mind of this OU fan.

Apparently there were others who were worried about OU getting focused for the remainder of their season. A lot of comments in blog land about Stoops getting his team ready to play and what a huge distraction last week was. Last year, after OU got off to a horrible start and finished strong I thought Stoops did a great job re-focusing his team. Again, that would appear to be a Stoops strongpoint. Stoops moved on and refocused his team and Oklahoma ran up 45 points in the first half and started sitting starters after the first drive of the third quarter on Saturday. This included OU's Heisman hopefull, Adrian Peterson. Peterson threw up 127 yards on 27 carries and scored 3 touchdowns before Stoops ended his day. Some people may question this call with Peterson in the hunt for the Heisman but it only supports Stoops' contention that there is no one player who is more important than the team. If you remember, this was the comment he made when he dismissed Rhett "Mr. Selfish" Bomar a month before the season started. Peterson remaining healthy is his main concern. Peterson has been putting up these kinds of numbers his entire career at OU. Again, expected.

But what is generally not expected here at Oklahoma was the successs of the passing game this weekend.

Paul Thompson, who was much maligned when he re-assumed the QB position after Bomar was dismissed, has been pretty consistent this season. He is showing improvement weekly. This weekend he put up the following numbers. He was 13 of 18 for 257 yards and 3 scores with no interceptions. He is making regular use of Malcolm Kelly (5 catches for 164 yards and a touchdown) and of his 13 completions he found 6 different receivers. He is spreading the ball around and this is making the Oklahoma attack a little more balanced than just hammmering Peterson at the defense all day. Yea, yea, yea! This was only Middle Tennesssee Sate! I can hear those comments already. Every team, in every sport, needs to have success against someone other than their own defense in practice. While this is not the strongest defense the Sooners will see this year, this IS the kind of game that builds confidence. And with Texas on the horizon for Oklahoma in a couple of weeks, this is the kind of game the passing game for Oklahoma needed. The offense also got other players involved in the game. They even managed to get their juco QB in the game at the end.

The much maligned defense for Oklahoma is starting to step it up as are the special teams.

After having no interceptions the first two games, they had two against Oregon and linebacker Zach Latimer returned one for a touchdown on Saturday. They are stepping it up on the turnover side. On the special teams side, Reggie Lewis, who had returned a punt for 62 yards and a kickoff for 55 yards on the year, and who is a threat everytime he touches the ball, returned a punt 61 yards for a score on Saturday. Again, an opponent that is not the strongest one the Sooners will see this weekend, but, just as with the passing game, confidence builder.

Bob Stoops re-focused the troops and they did exactly what they should have done.

They hammered an opponent with inferior talent at home. Middle Tennessee State got $600,000.00 to go to Norman, OK and get pasted. You can call this the ""revenge" game (when we lose a hockey game where we feel we got the short end of the stick, or, where we feel we played badly, we often tell the kids that the next opponent has to pay for it) after last weekend or you can call it a tune up for Texas. I think the Sooners are getting better as the season goes on. It remains to be seen, but I think this game will help the Sooners confidence and the psyche of those 18, 19 and 20 years olds. The Red River Shootout in two weeks. Let's play ball!!!

Just a couple of other thoughts on college football.

OSU will need to play a tad better than they did this weekend if they want to win it all. Troy Smith is a fine QB but I don't think one scrambling long pass for a touchdown should necessarily lock him into the Heisman Trophy this year. He is a high profile athlete, at a high profile school, playing a high profile position. The pass he made on Saturday, while a great play, should not be what his career, or his season, is measured on. If I am Jim Tressel, or Bob Stoops, or Steve Spurrier, etc., etc. I pretty much expect my QB, my Heisman Trophy candidate QB, to make plays like that consistently.

Lee Corso is possibly the most annoying man on television. Not only does he say stupid things regularly, the man can't sit still. It's like his hemmoroidal donut is slipping under him and he can't get the proper squat. That Texas foam helmet he put on a couple of weeks ago started me thinking what an idiot he is and at least three times a show now he has either said something stupid, or done something stupid to convince me.

And that's the bottom line...

Go Sooners!