Gregg Easterbrook, "Tuesday Morning Quarterback," continues his attack on "football factory" college schools, and as in past years, is determined not to let the facts get in the way.

Plus, the football factory colleges increasingly shun the road, paying lesser schools to come to them and be clobbered. The Mountaineers play seven of 12 at home; just imagine what the Denver Broncos' record would be if they could play 10 of 16 at home. Nebraska, Michigan, Miami of Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame all fearlessly play seven with the home-crowd advantage and just five on the road. Virginia Tech takes the cake, or in this case the cupcake -- Virginia Tech has eight home games versus four road dates. The Hokies and Mountaineers join hands across the Blue Ridge for college football's phoniest 2006 schedules!

TMQ insisted that Oklahoma has "more home games than road games" back in 2004, too, and it was just as imbecilic a claim then as it is now. Here is Oklahoma's 2006 football schedule. To help you out, home games - played in "Norman" - are highlighted.

Date	Opponent	Location	Count of home games Just for TMQ
Sept. 2	UAB	Norman	1/1
Sept. 9	Washington	Norman	2/2
Sept. 16	at Oregon	Eugene, Ore.	2/3
Sept. 23	Middle Tennessee State	Norman	3/4
Sept. 30	Open	-	3/4
Oct. 7	Texas	Dallas, Texas	3/5
Oct. 14	Iowa State	Norman	4/6
Oct. 21	Colorado	Norman	5/7
Oct. 28	at Missouri	Columbia, Mo.	5/8
Nov. 4	at Texas A&M	College Station, TX	5/9
Nov. 11	Texas Tech	Norman	6/10
Nov. 18	at Baylor	Waco, TX	6/11
Nov. 25	at Oklahoma State	Stillwater, OK	6/12

OU tries to play six home games every year, but some years it doesn't work out that way. In 2001 and 2003, OU played seven of twelve games in Norman - both years in which OU played four of its eight Big 12 games at home. In 1996, 1998, and 1999, OU played only five of eleven games in Norman; in 1997, OU played six of twelve at home.

Part of this is logistics: North Texas State, for example, comes to Norman every 2-3 years, but OU never goes to play in Denton - probably because the stadium is so small and because there's some OU-Texas contract agreement about not playing two games in Dallas in a year or something. Or the fact that TV networks won't pay to telecast a game in such a stadium, which cannot be the Sooners' fault.

OU has traveled to Tulsa often to play, though; the Sooners travelled to TCU, played home-and-home arrangements against both Alabama and UCLA, traveled to the Air Force Academy, and to Louisville. There was supposed to be a home-and-home series with Sooner arch-nemesis Notre Dame, but after OU went to South Bend in 1999, Notre Dame still hasn't managed to fit Norman into their busy schedule.

Nonetheless, Easterbrook is so eager to damn "football factory" schools for their scheduling, regardless of how difficult it is to find challengers, that he continues to ignore that in even-numbered years, Oklahoma is listed as the "home team" against Texas, but the game is never in Norman. It never has been, and God willing, it never will be. It's a home game solely in terms of not calling the coin toss.

Easterbrook has been on a rail for a full year now that the displaced New Orleans Saints had to play a "home" game in Giants Stadium against the New York Giants last year, but he continues to call the Cotton Bowl a "home game" for OU and hopes you won't figure it out. Ye Gods.