OU-Texas: An Elite Eight game
I was on a Kansas radio station the other day, and they started asking me about OU-Texas, how big it is, and I sort of stumbled into a solid comparison.
It’s a football version of an Elite Eight game.
Elite Eight games are the regional finals of the NCAA basketball tournament, played on that Saturday and Sunday to determine the Final Four participants.
Well, the football calendar is different. Football is a sport that doesn’t crunch all its best games and matchups into a frenzied three weekends starting in mid-March. Football’s survivor contest is spread throughout the season.
And OU-Texas is often an Elite Eight game. Not always, but often. The OU-Texas winner has the inside track to the Big 12 South Division title. Lots of other barriers remain, especially this season, but still, the OU-UT winner likely will be in Kansas City for the Big 12 title game.
And in 2008, it’s becoming more and more apparent that the Big 12 champ will be in the Big Bowl, the BCS championship game.
That makes OU-Texas an Elite Eight game, the Big 12 title game a national semifinal and the Big Bowl in Miami the championship.
Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel.
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