Boy, I wish I had strong optimism about this weekend. Admittedly the 21 point spread seems a bit extreme, but I do understand how the nation might see a blow out of that magnitude.
One of the reasons for the lack of optimism comes from the strength vs weaknesses of the two teams.
NU has had success playing ball control. OU is not giving up drives - their defense struggles against play makers making big plays. Not our specialty!
OU has plenty of talent, we have talent and experience in a few spots.
NU has an inspired team - OU certainly is not lacking in the emotion element. Stoops and Bo only spent one year together at OU -- I don't think it was an accident that Bo left Norman in one year to take an only slightly better job at LSU.
I don't see a lot of opportunity to knock off OU this weekend.
Therefore, here is the score prediction.
OU 24 NU 20
Oh, but at the end of game NU 38 OU 37.