Robert Griffin III, Heisman Trophy winner.

So, I hate it when my Sooners lose.

I even hate that I hate it. After all, football is just a game, hardly life and death.

But if my University of Oklahoma Sooners have to lose to Baylor University for the first time ever, I’m glad some good came from it.

Robert Griffin III, otherwise known as RGIII, took home Baylor’s first-ever Heisman Trophy Saturday night after a terrific season, and I want to congratulate him. He had a whole heck of a lot to do with Baylor’s very decisive win over OU, and I’m glad the Heisman voters noticed that and everything else he did all season to help his team, hardly known as a football power house, win this year.

I like that his acceptance speech was filled with the word “we,” instead of “I.” I like that he appeared on David Letterman poking fun at himself. I like that he wears fun socks with his tuxedo.

Congrats to a RGIII, a deserving winner. I hope more good comes your way.

This year, the BCS trophy should go to Oklahoma State University or Louisiana State University. No do-overs, Alabama.

I was Sooner born and Sooner bred. And when I die I’ll be Sooner dead.

Got it? I’m not Oklahoma State University fan. To quote the Boz, orange makes me puke. So here’s a stab at me being objective.

I have to go on record saying this BCS bowl shenanigans is messed up (www.bscfootball.org). OSU beat my beloved Sooners in a game that I’d just soon forget. They won, and some might even say they killed us. Whatever. The OSU Cowboys made their point that, at least this year, they are a force to be reckoned with. I hate to admit it, but that’s the truth.

Louisiana State University likewise has shown some might on the gridiron, and LSU deserves to be playing in that championship title game Jan. 9 in New Orleans. What isn’t right that the University of Alabama will be playing there, too. That’s just plain stupid.

The championship match-up should be between LSU and OSU.

Here’s why:

• Alabama didn’t even win its conference
• Alabama already lost to LSU
• The SEC is NOT the only strong football conference
• OSU beat three teams ranked in the top 15; ‘Bama only one
• OSU won its conference

For years I’ve just shrugged my shoulders while others complained about the BCS system. Now, I see how ridiculous it can be. It wasn’t even my Sooners who made me see it; it was those blasted orange Cowboys.

You’re welcome, OSU.

Lately I spend most of my days thinking cool thoughts.

All day I loll about my air conditioned headquarters dreaming of things such as ice cubes, swimming pools, blizzards, the North Pole and the like. That is, I conjure such notions in between sticking my head in the freezer.

Have I mentioned it’s hot?

Anyway, I broke myself away from such pursuits just yesterday and ventured out to the grocery store. As I entered in search of ice cream and Gatorade, I stopped in my tracks. There in front of me rising out of the floral displays were shiny metal pumpkins.

And then, I’m near breathless with excitement as I tell you this, I read in the local newspaper (yes, I still subscribe but read it only when Prince Charming shall fetch it for me off the near blazing concrete driveway) that Big Tex will be sporting a new shirt at the fair. Why you can literally count down the days till the state fair here: www.bigtex.com.

And…I need smelling salts as I recall this tidbit of information for you…football two-a-days have begun. Oh let me get my Sooner gear ready.

So, dear readers, let us try to keep from hyperventilating, but some people, lots of people evidently, believe we will have a fall season. Jubilation and hallelujah! Tomorrow I shall contemplate anew, this time about falling leaves, bobbing for apples, homecoming and Halloween.

Auburn Coach Gene Chizik is top in my poll.

I love college football.

No secret–my team is the University of Oklahoma Sooners, ranked number 6. Boomer Sooner! (www.ou.edu) Even though we played an unranked team in the Fiesta Bowl (thank you, BCS), I was happy we got to go to a big bowl game, play on national TV and welcome another team to OU’s laundry list of  “thanks for playing” opponents.

Monday I watched the college national championship game between the Oregon Ducks and the Auburn Tigers. I did NOT want Oregon to win because I hold a grudge for the game between that team and the REAL OU team several years ago with bad call after bad call. The ref admitted he threw the game, and he ended up throwing in his whistle. True.

So I wanted Auburn to win by default, not because of any allegiance to that team at all. So they won. So they’re number one in the final football rankings. http://newsok.com/ou-no.-6-osu-no.-13-in-final-ap-college-football-poll/article/3531362.

But I’m not happy about that, either.

Is anyone as shocked as I am at the lack of sportsmanship from Auburn? Number 32, 90 and number 45–whatever their names are–were shown on national TV roughing up Oregon. In fact, 32 was shown kneeing an Oregon player after the play, while the Duck was on the ground. What the heck does it take to get tossed out? Oregon’s socks were obnoxious but no one deserves to be hit while they’re down. NO ONE. Not even a Longhorn.

Then Auburn Coach Gene Chizik accepted the win with very little grace. No acknowledgement of Oregon being a worthy opponent. Just a factual statement that he coaches the “best team in the country.” Wow. What manners. What class.

So Auburn is at the top of my poll. NUMBER ONE this season for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Who gets your vote?

Jeanie Luskey signed on to raise funds for a hospital, not compete with football playoffs.

All the planning in the world still doesn’t mean you can control the world.

Something I know from experience, and I’m sure others have learned this lesson, too.

Last year I served on the steering committee for a celebration marking my sorority’s centennial at the University of Oklahoma (Boomer Sooner, of course). It was a big darn deal. Most of the women had worked on dozens of similar committees, so these volunteers were pros in the field of gala-throwing. Invitations, underwriting, bands, centerpieces, seating charts and ice sculptures were not foreign turf to this crew.

We met for months, going over every detail for this two-day event. Account balances in the black, RSVPs duly noted, speakers lined up. The highlight was to be a black-tie ball on a Saturday night with a fabulous dinner, fun band and even husbands.

So for a bunch of type-A women, we had it under control…or so we fooled ourselves into thinking.

The football gods aligned the planets so that our beloved Sooners played a big game on national TV.  Kick-off? Exactly the same as the time printed on our oh-so-lovely invitations.

So now as the Dallas Cowboys make a rare Saturday night appearance on national TV in a play-off game with that Philadelphia team, I’m not worried about Jerry’s boys. My concerns are for the Jewel Charity Ball in Fort Worth. That party, an annual event for Cook Children’s Medical Center, has been on the books longer than Tony Romo’s been wearing ball caps backwards.

Jeanie Luskey, president of this year’s ball, probably is wondering what the heck happened to Monday night football.

Even though it’s really not at all my problem, I’m worried about some of the non-profits.

Several of them are holding major fundraisers at JerryWorld, I mean, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. Some are banking on the stadium to be a big enough draw that no speaker will be necessary, and that has me wringing my hands for them.

Without really trying very hard, I’ve visited JerryWorld, I mean, Cowboys Stadium three times already. I’ve seen the giant big screen in the sky, shelled out for the high-priced stadium food, test-driven the bathrooms. (The bathrooms, by the way, are just not up to snuff. You can have the biggest TV screen known to mankind, but did they really install those old-fashioned, push-here faucets? No high-tech hands-free type? What MAN decided this? I digress.)

Labor Day, a holiday that should be devoted to swimming one last time and eating too many burgers, marked the day in 2009 that eight high school football teams got the chance to play on Jerry’s new turf. For $15, the merely curious, the true-blue fans and the bored could have spent all day there, wandering from floor to floor while Trojans and Panthers tore up the gridiron. The City of Arlington had its day, too, this summer when those waiting to see what their tax dollars built could get a glimpse inside.

Then there’s the college football opportunities. My beloved Sooners already spent an unfortunate evening there, and Texas A&M will play the Arkansas Razorbacks Oct. 3. And let’s not forget the groupies who will be there to check out U2 Oct. 12.

So if non-profit organizations were counting on the curiosity factor pulling people into their fall fund-raising luncheons, that just worries me. I want the causes to do well, but if you forego a speaker because the new stadium is your magnet, I’m a little anxious about that outcome. But if you were just looking for a new place to try instead of the normal hotel ballroom, then maybe it’ll work out fine.

In the meantime, I’m thinking maybe some major new marketing is in order…or maybe give attendees the chance to use the Cowboy cheerleaders’ bathroom. Let’s see if they’ve got better sinks.