The Picker: What's on our college football teams' wish lists

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Left to the devices of cheerleaders and the empty-headed, the masses will go into next year expecting OU to be elite instead of incomplete.

Here is the inside business on what each of our football teams needs to find before the fall.

Oklahoma

It needs less cheerleading from the media.

College football is a quarterback's game.

OU has no quarterback.

The Sooners could also stand a runner.

OU's backfield looks about like what you'd find at Iowa, tailbacks who can dominate dogs but don't have the moves to get open on their own.

No thanks to Mike "Time Out Time Out" Stoops (a leading candidate for nickname of the year), OU also needs a defense.

Were these returning starters coming back to Michigan State, they'd be worried sick.

If the media quits cowering in front of the Stoops Gang and gets real, perhaps the football team will respond as well.

Oklahoma State

This team has progressed nicely from the overnight sensation spike in the polls and doesn't need a whole lot except on the psychological level.

It is, after all, the best team in the state going into the 2013 season.

The only slightly abnormal pressure comes from moneyed man Pickens, who wants to see his team play for a national title before he turns 100.

OSU needs a better defense, but in this conference, who doesn't - what skillful defensive lineman in his right mind wants to chase around bubble screens for three years?

The main thing OSU needs to do is act like it belongs up there in the college ranks and quit whining about having to play decent nonconference foes. That starts at the top. Gundy has been a Cowboy so long, sometimes he acts like they could still stink at any second.

Tulsa

As is the case with OSU, it's going to be hard for this team to get much better.

Great coaching, great character, great records, about all that's slipping through the cracks are fans.

And, as is the case with all schools on the tiny enrollment side, the only way to fill the seats is by winning them all, or by recruiting some freak of nature that the big places missed.

Sleeper stars are hard to find.

Hire more assistants.

Maybe get lucky with a coach's kid.

PICKS

Sunday

San Francisco (-4 1/2) at Atlanta: Start of Harbaugh Brothers Day in the NFL - the lippy one coaches SF, the slightly quieter one runs Baltimore.

This one goes on Fox, praise be, as the announcers pause occasionally for breath.

The bandwagon for the SF quarterback includes everybody who loved: Vick, then RG3, then Wilson at Seattle.

Then there was one runner left, the man from Nevada.

True, Atlanta is stodgy.

But this isn't Nevada.

Big upset, Atlanta by 4.

Baltimore at New England (-8 1/2): This, and the Super Bowl itself, go on CBS, headed by the worst announcing team ever, Saturday Nigh Live parodies included, Nantz and Simms.

Nantz would probably live in a tree by the 18th green at Augusta if they'd let him. Masters promos three months early will ring in our ears.

And Simms keeps explaining simple plays like they came from a foreign land.

New England has a unique pass attack - a very low actual air miles figure.

The average New England pass travels four yards by air, then a receiver carries it 25 more.

The Harbaugh brothers watch the Super Bowl from the family box.

NE by 7.

Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20130117_29_B1_WITHON568821&rss_lnk=2

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