NORMAN — Walk OU's Campus Corner 21/2 hours before kickoff of a 2:30 or 6 p.m. game, and it's a carnival midway. Walk Campus Corner 21/2 hours before an 11 a.m. kick, and it's the day the Earth stood still. It's a neutron bomb. All the buildings are there, but the people are gone.
Which is why there's much consternation over yet another morning kickoff at Owen Field. The Sooners and West Virginia play Saturday in a Big 12 showdown of top-25 teams, and sleepyheads will miss the first quarter. The game will reach the second quarter before noon, just like OU-Tulsa two weeks ago and three Sooner home games in 2014 and two OU home games in 2013.