God has finally revealed himself to be a Sooner fan. The next week, the Sooners go to Lubbock, Texas, which is the windiest spot in North America, excluding a mythic fortress of solitude in New Hampshire. You could look it up. An accepted theory, long tested, claimed that passing teams are doomed in Middle America. Plays that produce first downs in September go bust in November.
Cold hands start dropping balls.
Passes into the wind lose their oomph. Running plays go from 3 yards and a cloud of dust to 3 yards and glad to get it. You couldn't expect to go to Big Eight hamlets and, with Thanksgiving approaching, win with the pass. Might as well walk the streets of East St. Louis flashing a Rolex. But the times and temperatures, they are a changin'.