Tuesday Morning Quarterback's obsession with Oklahoma continues this week by bringing up last week's score, even though the entire item has been thoroughly debunked in these very pages:

Obscure College Score of the Week

Pittsburg State of Kansas 69, Southwestern Baptist 0. Located in Pittsburg, Kan. -- the correct way to spell the name, according to locals -- Pitt State, TMQ's second-favorite obscure college, is home to "the nation's only Gorillas." This refers not to frat boys, rather, the fact that Gorillas is the school's sports nickname. Actual gorillas are docile vegetarians. Nevertheless, see Pitt State's menacing who-you-lookin'-at anthropoid image here www.pittstategorillas.com. Recently the school's women's teams voted to become the Lady Gorillas, abandoning their former name, the Gussies, and missing their chance to go really modern by becoming the Hussies. Note to Oklahoma, which kept passing in the fourth quarter a week ago in order to run up the score to 63-13 against Houston: Pittsburgh of Kansas did not pass in the fourth quarter against Southwestern Baptist.

Still nary a word from TMQ about LSU "running up the score" on its opponent by the exact same margin last week - 50 points - and being punished by the football gods this week with a humiliating 10-9 loss to Auburn.

Oh, and on the whole obnoxious "football factory" thing about scheduling more home games than away games, and using early home games against weak teams to build ratings? In 1985, my freshman year, OU again had 11 games, and six of them were at home, but the first home game was on October 19, after the Texas game. That was in the day's of the Big 8, and the non-conference schedule included ranked teams Texas and Miami, the latter being a home game that OU lost in which Miami's thug defense broke freshman quarterback Troy Aikman's legs. (Aikman never played for OU again.)

That year, OU traveled to Minneapolis and Dallas for its non-conference away games, and to Stillwater, Columbia, and Manhattan for conference away games. The home opener was the Miami loss, in mid-season, on national television, in which the team lost its starting quarterback for the season. You can't ask for a rougher schedule than that.

You may recall that the champions of college football after the 1985 season were the Oklahoma Sooners, defeating #1 Penn State in the Orange Bowl as #2 Miami dissolved in the Sugar Bowl under Tennessee's agitations.

TMQ can't admit it's wrong on the facts, but at least tries to propitiate itself by offering a mild-though-arrogant dissenting opinion:

Apropos my contention that Oklahoma has once again offended the football gods by passing repeatedly in the fourth quarter though ahead 56-7 against Houston, Pierijn van der Putt of Utrecht, the Netherlands, supposes, "When you're shooting for greatness, you shouldn't shy away from angering the gods." He notes that European soccer fans "have to watch unsportsmanlike conduct every week, with soccer players faking injury, elbowing opponents in the jaw." Running up the score within the rules is genteel by comparison, van der Putt says.

Hmm.