The championship game (the Nokia Sugar Bowl) will be anticlimactic because we already watched the Sooners get walloped by Kansas State last Saturday night in the Big 12 Conference championship game, a post-regular-season affair that is itself a creation of the infernal effort to select the absolute best team (and maximize revenue).
His fictitious musings are made fact by the status of their infernal scribe, while their reportage is a reminder of Mr Mailer's own journalistic roots.