OU-LSU under the lights at Death Valley
If there was one OU game many fans had penciled in for a night kickoff, it was LSU. And sure enough, when the Sooners head to Baton Rouge next Saturday, it’ll be under the night lights.
OU-LSU is set for a 6 p.m. kickoff on the final day of the regular season on ESPN. Both OU and LSU are on the struggle bus right now.
The Tigers (6-4) have lost three in a row, all by double-digits. OU (5-5), of course, is still fighting to become bowl eligible for head coach Brent Venables.
The Sooners host Alabama this weekend. LSU takes on Vanderbilt. Neither one, obviously, is a gimme game for either program.
OU players had talked all spring and summer about playing at LSU at night, and everybody is going to get their wish.
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It very well could be OU going for that one last chance at earning win No. 6 and making a bowl game.
Schmit experience could pay off
OU might need a big kick in Baton Rouge. And Zach Schmit has delivered all season. He explained how he was able to turn the page after a disappointing couple of seasons.
“It’s about understanding the highs and the lows,” Schmit said. “I’ve been at the lowest of the lows and I’ve been at the highest of the highs. When I was really young, my first year, I had the Iowa State two field goals and a touchdown. That was the highest of the highs for me at that point, and then the season kind of went downhill for me there and I was kind of at the lowest of the lows after Texas Tech and West Virginia. Those were tough, hard games for me, because as a young kicker, first-year starter, it was oh so amazing and then it can just change like that.
“That’s what I let those young guys know. Never get too high, never get too low. Try to stay at the middle ground as much as you can. It’s hard. Social media, it’s hard to do, but if you can stay at that middle ground, it’ll make your life so much better, stress free, not too high, too in there, and then when you get a low coming your way, it’s so hard. If you’re so high and then you get hit with a low, it makes it so much harder to get back to the middle ground, but once you’re middle, nothing can sway you.”
