It’s college football prediction time, on a week woefully short of meaningful games:
Texas Tech at Oklahoma: Sooners 48-24. Last six OU-Tech games in Norman. 45-7, 65-21, 34-24, 28-13, 60-15, 27-13. Good news for the Red Raiders. Not all blowouts.
OSU at Missouri: Cowboys 38-34. Everyone talks about OSU’s 2008 victory at Columbia, which they should. But don’t forget 2004. Cowboys rallied from a 17-0 deficit to win 20-17. Big win for Les Miles.
Tulsa at Rice: Golden Hurricane 31-21. Conference USA’s western division could be crumbling around Tulsa. SMU and Houston apparently are gone, leaving these two squads, Tulane and UTEP.
UCLA at Arizona: Bruins 33-31. Too bad Mike Stoops is gone. Would have made this game worth watching.
West Virginia at Syracuse: Mountaineers 42-29. Dana Holgorsen will make this game worth watching Friday night.
North Carolina State at Virginia : Cavaliers 24-20. Kooky team, Virginia. Beats Georgia Tech about the same way it beat Idaho in overtime and Indiana.
Maryland at Florida State: Seminoles 35-24. Could Florida State rally from its 2-3 start? Sure would help OU’s computer ranking.
Georgia Tech at Miami: YellowJackets 31-21. Divisional game in the ACC. I still haven’t memorized the ACC divisions. Have to look it up every time. Let’s see if I can develop a system. Both Virginias and both Techs are together, along with Duke and North Carolina. The last team is Miami. Uh, how am I going to remember Miami?
Arkansas at Mississippi: Razorbacks 47-14. The Houston Nutt Bowl. Later, Ole Miss has the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. That will do it for Mississippi bowls.
Cincinnati at South Florida: Bulls 27-26. Can Cincinnati make a run at West Virginia and reach the BCS for the third time in four years? Better win here.
North Carolina at Clemson: Tigers 49-13. Tulsa athletic director Bubba Cunningham is headed to Carolina. First order of business: reinstate football.
Texas A&M at Iowa State: Aggies 51-27. A&M never has lost in Ames, and barring an upset Saturday, never will.
New Mexico at TCU: Horned Frogs 30-7. The disparity in vision is massive here. TCU administrators have had it for awhile. New Mexico administrators, never.
Utah at Cal: Golden Bears 22-20. Don’t look now, but the Pac-12 is playing some really bad football. Stanford is good. Oregon is good. Everyone else stinks.
Berry Tramel, a lifelong Oklahoman, sports fan and newspaper reader, joined The Oklahoman in 1991 and has served as beat writer, assistant sports editor, sports editor and columnist.
Tramel grew up reading four daily newspapers — The Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City Times, the Norman Transcript and the Oklahoma Journal — and entered the newspaper business at the age of 17, with the Transcript in 1978. His first game assignment was the Lexington-Elmore City high school football game, and he has enjoyed the journey ever since, from high school wrestling duals and regional track meets to Orange Bowls and the NBA playoffs.
Tramel was born and raised in Norman, Okla. He and his wife, Tricia, were married in 1980 and live in Norman near their daughter, son-in-law and three granddaughters.
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