Admit It: Oklahoma is just as incapable of pulling out big non-conference games as Ohio State is. And either we need to stop piling on Ohio State for it, or we need to start disrespecting Oklahoma just as much as we do Ohio State. Either way, it’s time for these college football double standards to come to an end.

When it became evident that Oklahoma was going to lose yet another BCS bowl game and yet another National Championship, what did the commentators immediately start to do? Make excuses for them. It was all about head coach Bob Stoops doing a great job even just to get his team to four title games in nine years and how he obviously had OU ready to play—despite the fact that OU didn’t play anywhere near as well as they did even in their loss to Texas, and Florida’s defense had relatively little to do with it. Had that been OSU? They would have been saying how the Big Ten is down, easing their path to a third title game disaster in a row, and bringing up the losses to Florida, LSU and USC. How often do you hear that Jim Tressel has done a great job in getting OSU to three title games in eight years—winning one of them more recently than OU has—making regular appearances in BCS bowl games and earning at least a share of the Big Ten title nearly every season of his tenure at OSU? In contrast, how often are OU’s big-stage losses to USC and LSU mentioned? People usually only talk about the loss to Boise State in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, and that’s almost always a way of crediting Boise State rather than disparaging OU.

You can point out that the Big 12 is a much stronger conference than the Big Ten and maybe even that they were the best conference this season. I can agree with that. That doesn’t change the fact that OU has fallen short in big bowl games more than OSU has in recent years. If anything, being able to get through the best conference with only one loss ought to ensure that you beat a team from a “lesser” conference. It did not. In fact, the margin of defeat was greater between Florida and OU than it was between Texas and OSU.

Still, I betcha people talk about how “close” the title game was. As a matter of fact, I’ve already seen several articles online spin that line of crap. “Close” is a game-changing touchdown with approximately 30 seconds left on the clock. Being down ten points with basically three minutes to work with and an inability to score since early in the fourth quarter (or, really, most of the game) is not.

So, America…I say—as a Wolverine, now—it’s time for a new whipping board in college football. And that whipping board’s name is the University of Oklahoma football team. You think 41-14 is bad? Try 55-19. Ouch. I guess that’s a convenient little thing to forget when you’re talking about how USC regularly kills the Big Ten—that and the fact that no Big Ten team has lost quite that badly to USC in recent years. Maybe Oklahoma needs to join us in the Big Ten. They can be The Ohio State University—Norman, OK campus.

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