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Two weeks into the college football season isn’t enough time to know everything about the local squads.

Still, two weeks is enough time to know this — it’s OK to be excited.

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If you’re a college football fan in our fair state, go ahead and feel good about your team. Like where they’re headed. Speculate about what this season could be. Because it looks like things could be even better than expected for Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa.

The reason is two-fold — these teams are as good, maybe even better, than expected and their competition isn’t as good.

Let’s start with Oklahoma. A blowout of Tennessee-Chattanooga in Week 1 meant little, but beating up on Cincinnati in Week 2 showed that the Sooners have a stout squad. The offense is smooth, and the defense is able to adjust.

And if you look at the other teams at the top of the heap nationally, what the Sooners did in these first two weeks looks even better. Several of the top teams have struggled. Ohio State escaped Ohio. West Virginia lost to East Carolina. Those sorts of things open the door even wider for OU.

Oklahoma State’s door has opened even wider, too. The teams that the Cowboys are going to be trying to climb over in the Big 12 South are vulnerable. Texas A&M is weak, and Texas and Texas Tech aren’t as good as their rankings suggest.

And the Cowboys look like they might be better than expected, too. Their offense is stout, and maybe that isn’t a shock, but when you lose Dantrell Savage and Adarius Bowman, missing a step wouldn’t be out of the question. Instead, Kendall Hunter and Dez Bryant have emerged. A pair of blowouts to open the season make a strong statement for the Cowboys.

Tulsa has scored a pair of beat-downs, too, prompting some pundits to ask if the Golden Hurricane could be this year’s BCS spoiler. Could it be this year’s Hawaii or Boise State?

Heck, why couldn’t it? Tulsa lost Paul Smith, a guy who’s now cashing an NFL paycheck, and yet, David Johnson steps in and things just keep humming along.

Now, granted, all three teams have questions, but their questions are no bigger and certainly no worse than those of their closest competitors.

So, go ahead, and be excited about your team. We may not know everything we need to know after two weeks, but there’s enough evidence to feel darn good about the teams in our fair state.