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More on Sammy's Win

From SoonerSports.com

Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford named 74th winner of Heisman Memorial Trophy.

Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford claimed the 74th Annual Heisman Memorial Trophy awarded by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York City. Bradford was named the winner during an awards ceremony televised to a nationwide audience Saturday night (December 13).

Bradford became the fifth Sooner to win the award joining Jason White (2003), Billy Sims (1978), Steve Owens (1969) and Billy Vessels (1952). The Oklahoma City native earlier won the Davey O'Brien Award for most outstanding quarterback and the Sammy Baugh Trophy.

Leading the most explosive offense in college football this season, Bradford completed 302 of his 442 pass attempts for 4,464 yards with 48 touchdowns and six interceptions. He led the nation in passing efficiency and also scored five rushing touchdowns on the year.

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Bradford, a sophomore, broke Jason White's school record for touchdowns in a season (48) and in a career (84). He threw for 468 yards against Kansas which ranks first in OU history for passing yards in a game. In addition, Bradford surpassed Florida's Rex Grossman with most touchdowns through the freshman and sophomore year with 82.

Overall, Bradford led the Sooners to a 12-1 record, a Big 12 Conference championship and a No. 1 ranking in the BCS. Oklahoma will battle the Florida Gators in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game on January 8, 2009, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

The Heisman Trophy is awarded each year to the most outstanding college football player as determined by 870 media representatives, 55 living Heisman winners and one fan vote. Bradford received 1,726 points. Texas quarterback Colt McCoy finished second with 1,604 points and Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was third with 1,575 points.

Sammy Wins the Heisman!

From ESPN.com

The first person to congratulate Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford was the player who won it last year -- Tim Tebow.

The star quarterbacks from the top two teams in the country shook hands Saturday night, then embraced.

On Jan. 8, with the national championship on the line, it won't be so cordial.

Bradford, Oklahoma's amazingly accurate and quick-thinking passer, won the Heisman after leading the highest-scoring team in major college history to the BCS title game.

A year after Tebow was the first sophomore to win the Heisman, Bradford became the second and kept the Florida star from joining Archie Griffin as the only two-time winners.

Bradford and Tebow will soon meet again, when the No. 2 Sooners (12-1) face No. 1 Gators (12-1) in Miami.

"We're ready to get back to work to get ready for the 8th," Bradford said. "When we started this season, winning the national championship was the first goal we put down as a team."

Next month's game between Oklahoma and Florida marks the second time Heisman winners will play against each other. The first was in the 2005 Orange Bowl, when '04 winner Matt Leinart and Southern California beat '03 winner Jason White and Oklahoma for the national title.

Bradford, who leads the nation in touchdown passes with 48, received 1,726 points. Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was second with 1,604 and Tebow -- who received the most first-place votes -- was third with 1,575 points.

"I was definitely surprised and I think it's everything I imagined," said Bradford, who raised the 25-pound bronze statue with his left hand still in a cast from a recent surgery. "I think it will take a couple weeks to set in."

Bradford got 300 first-place votes, McCoy 266 and Tebow 309. Not since 1956 had a player drawn the most first-place votes and finished third; Tommy McDonald of Oklahoma holds that distinction.

Bradford was the third person to win without receiving the most first-place votes, joining Notre Dame's Paul Hornung in '56 and Oklahoma's Billy Sims in 1978.

Any consolation, Tim?

"Not really," he said with a smile. "You lose, you lose.

"We still get to play in January and decide something a little bit bigger."

It was the closest margin between the top two since Nebraska's Eric Crouch edged Florida's Rex Grossman by 62 points in 2001. The only other time the gap between first and third was smaller was also '01, when Miami's Ken Dorsey was 142 points behind Crouch.

"Now I know what it's like for those people on 'American Idol," McCoy said. "My heart was pounding."

The award ceremony was held at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square. When it was over, the finalists were whisked downtown with a police escort, about 50 blocks to the Sports Museum of America in lower Manhattan for a news conference.

"I was really nervous," Bradford said during his news conference. "I'd much rather play in front of 100,000 people than wait for an award to be handed out."
The Big 12 South was the epicenter of college football this season, with both the national championship race and Heisman chase turning weekly on games played by its three powerhouse teams.

McCoy was the early Heisman front-runner after leading the Longhorns to the No. 1 ranking with a victory against Oklahoma in October. Texas Tech's Graham Harrell, who finished a distant fourth in Heisman voting, then moved to the forefront after he tossed a last-second, game-winning touchdown pass to beat Texas a month later.

But Bradford closed strongest, leading his team to a string of blowout victories, including one against Texas Tech, and a spot -- even if it was somewhat controversial -- in the BCS title game.

Bradford leads the nation in passer rating (186.3) and has thrown for 4,464 yards, directing the Sooners' fast-paced, no-huddle offense.

Oklahoma has already racked up 702 points to blow past the record of 656 set by Hawaii in 2006, and last week the Sooners became the first major college team in 89 years to score at least 60 in five straight games.

"This is an individual award but I feel like I'm receiving it on behalf of my teammates," Bradford said during his acceptance speech. "I feel like our whole offense bails me out every game. They make me look good."

Bradford is the fifth Oklahoma player to win the award, and second during coach Bob Stoops' 10 seasons with the Sooners. Bradford matched White by taking home college football's most famous bronze statue. Next he'd like to join Josh Heupel, his position coach and a Heisman runner-up, who quarterbacked OU to the 2000 national title.

"You were one of my heroes growing up," Bradford told Heupel.

Oklahoma has never won a national title and a Heisman Trophy in the same season.

While no match for Tebow and McCoy as a runner, Bradford's Heisman moment came on a scramble against Oklahoma State in the regular-season finale. He sprinted away from pressure, turned up the sideline and about 5 yards from the end zone tried to vault headfirst to the goal line. Bradford got hit and flipped, arms and legs whipping around, and landed hard out of bounds, but popped right up. On the next play, he sneaked into the end zone from a yard out.

He came out of that game with an injured non-throwing hand. The cast will be off well before the game against Florida.

The winner that night in Miami gets the biggest prize of all.

Heisman Votes

	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
Sam Bradford, Oklahoma	300	315	196	1,726
Colt McCoy, Texas	266	288	230	1,640
Tim Tebow, Florida	309	207	234	1,575

It's Official: Florida vs. OU in the Title Game!

From YahooSports.com

The only suspense remaining in the BCS Championship Game is whether it will pit two Heisman-winning quarterbacks against each other.

As expected, No. 1 Oklahoma (12-1) and No. 2 Florida (12-1) filled the first two spots in the final BCS standings released Sunday, setting the stage for a national championship showdown Jan. 8 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Other BCS pairings are No. 5 USC (11-1) vs. No. 8 Penn State (11-1) in the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl, No. 12 Cincinnati (11-2) vs. No. 19 Virginia Tech (9-4) in the Jan. 1 Orange Bowl, No. 4 Alabama (12-1) vs. No. 6 Utah (12-0) in the Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl and No. 3 Texas (11-1) vs. No. 10 Ohio State (10-2) in the Jan. 5 Fiesta Bowl.

"The matchup's going to be tremendous," Florida coach Urban Meyer said.

Meyer was referring to the game itself, but he also may as well have been talking about the showdown between the quarterbacks. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won the 2007 Heisman, while Oklahoma's Sam Bradford is the front-runner to win the award this season.

Bradford's stellar performance helped Oklahoma set an NCAA scoring record, becoming the first team in NCAA history to put up at least 60 points in five consecutive games. Tebow has thrown 28 touchdown passes and has run for 12 scores this season while being intercepted just twice.

The presence of the quarterbacks offers the potential for a shootout similar to the championship game from three years ago, when Texas' Vince Young outdueled USC's Matt Leinart in the Longhorns' 41-38 victory.

Oklahoma is first and Florida third in the nation in scoring. The big difference between these teams is on the other side of the ball: Florida ranks fifth in the nation in scoring defense and Oklahoma is 57th.

"We've had better defensive years," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "I'm fully aware of that. But in the end, some of it has been geared to the style we've decided to play on offense, snapping the ball as quick as we can."

This championship game also represents a reunion of sorts for Stoops, who worked as a defensive coordinator on former Gators coach Steve Spurrier's Florida staff from 1996-98. When Spurrier left Florida at the end of the 2001 season, Stoops was the first person Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley pursued for the job. Stoops chose to stay at Oklahoma, and the Gators hired Ron Zook instead. Zook was fired during the 2004 season, and Florida hired Meyer after that season.

"I have great memories of my time there and experiences there, but I also had been making my own [niche] here at Oklahoma," Stoops said. "With the administration being as loyal as it's been to me and as hard as they'd worked to improve the program, I felt strongly about what we were doing and positive about what we were doing here that I felt I wanted to continue to see it through."

While Oklahoma and Florida celebrated the BCS announcements, Texas and Boise State had plenty of reason to gripe.

Florida's 31-20 victory over top-ranked Alabama in the SEC Championship Game allowed the Gators to leapfrog Texas in the BCS standings and earn a shot at the national title. One week earlier, Oklahoma had moved ahead of Texas in similar fashion, even though Texas had beaten the Sooners on a neutral field during the regular season.

Texas coach Mack Brown said the disappointment of missing out on a championship game appearance wouldn't hurt his team's focus for the Fiesta Bowl. "It's an exciting time for us," he said. "It's time for us to put the past week behind us with all the BCS stuff and move forward and look forward to a great game."

Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech finished in a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 South. Under the fifth tiebreaker, Oklahoma won the spot in the Big 12 Championship Game as the highest-rated team in the BCS standings. Oklahoma then earned its date in Miami by whipping Missouri 62-21 in the Big 12 Championship Game.

Stoops had pointed out that Texas' head-to-head victory over the Sooners shouldn't be the sole consideration because Texas Tech had beaten Texas and Oklahoma had blown out Texas Tech.

"They went to a system that we all agreed upon before the season," Stoops said. "If someone didn't like that system, whether it be the media or whether it be some other team, just change it before the season and I'll play by whatever rules they want to play by. Just let me know before the season starts."

Ohio State earned the Fiesta Bowl date instead of No. 9 Boise State even though Boise State (12-0) had a better record than the Buckeyes and was ranked higher in the BCS standings. But the draw of Ohio State and its large alumni base was too enticing for Fiesta Bowl officials.

GAME DAY!

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Raiders not bemoaning bad luck with BCS outlook

By Don Williams, Avalance-Journal

Texas Tech’s sports publicity staff distributed a position paper after the team’s regular-season finale Saturday. The handout contained 15 bullet points making the team’s case to be the South Division representative at the Big 12 Conference championship game and later BCS bowl games.

The Red Raiders seemed to understand, though, that having taken a bullet the week before at Oklahoma was going to outweigh all those bullet points.

Tech won a piece of the South Division title for the first time and made it to 11-1 for the first time since 1973, but didn’t budge when the final regular-season BCS standings were released Sunday. The Red Raiders stayed No. 7, and there are no scenarios that would land Tech in a BCS game at the end of the season.

Given that they were beaten 65-21 in their last road game at Oklahoma and had to rally to beat Baylor 35-28 on Saturday, Tech players seemed resigned that they didn’t end their campaign for a BCS spot on a strong enough note.

“It’s a great conference,” Tech quarterback Graham Harrell said, “and when you have this many great teams in one conference, things like this happen. You come up with three-way ties.

“Oklahoma State, who I think is good enough to win a lot of conferences, has lost two games (before the Cowboys lost Saturday night to Oklahoma) and aren’t even getting mentioned. They’re kind of left behind, and they’re a great team.

“We would like to have won last week and gone undefeated, but we didn’t. We want to go to the best bowl and want to go to the best game, want the best turnout, but whatever happens happens.

“It’s been an exciting year, been an exciting conference — I think the best conference in the country right now. It’s crazy at the top, but that’s the way things are.”

Tech running back Baron Batch was more direct, saying the Raiders had their chance and blew it at Oklahoma.

“It was nothing that I could say, ‘Poor us. We’re getting messed over,’’’ Batch said. “All we had to do was go out and win, and we didn’t.”

This is the first time one of the Big 12 divisions has ended in a three-way tie. But Tech wouldn’t be the first Big 12 team to have such a strong regular season and not make one of the big-money bowl games.

The 1998 Kansas State team went 11-0 in the regular season, lost to Texas A&M at the Big 12 championship game in St. Louis, and then fell to the Alamo Bowl, where it was beaten by Purdue. The 2007 Missouri team went 11-1, lost the Big 12 title game to Oklahoma in San Antonio, and then drilled Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.

On Sunday, Oklahoma jumped Texas into the coveted No. 2 spot in the BCS standings with Texas slipping to third. Because three teams tied for the Big 12 South title, the conference had to go all the way to the fifth tiebreaker — highest BCS ranking — to decide which goes to Kansas City to play Missouri this week.

A BCS provision that guarantees a spot to at-large candidates ranked in the top four is what dooms Tech. With no game this week, Texas is likely to remain in the top four and join the Missouri-OU winner in the BCS when invitations go out next Sunday.

Among the few who seemed to think Tech deserves better was head coach Mike Leach, who sounded a theme he first mentioned last Monday.

“I think we’re as good as any one-loss team in the country,” Leach said. “We’re in the best conference in the country, and I don’t see where anybody else in the country could debate that they should be regarded (higher) than us, if they have one loss. The only other two that I could think of that would be Oklahoma and Texas.”

Big 12 Championship Watch Party!

Howdy all you Sooner Fans!

Well we might take a plane, we might take a train. If we have to walk, we're going there just the same. We're going to, Kansas City, Kansas City, here we come. (With sincere apologies to Albert King.) Wow! After that crazy three way tie, the BCS gave us the nod. We're going to the Big 12 Championship Game, baby!

So, if you're going to be in Dallas and want to experience the excitement that is Sooner Magic, come join us at Coach Joe's this Saturday for the game! Help us cheer our Sooners to victory against Mizzou! It will surely be super way to wrap up this crazy, exciting season! And whether you're an official OU Club member or just a local alumnus who is looking for other Sooners to hang out with, we want you to join us THIS Saturday for the Big 12 Championship Game! OU takes on the Tigers at 7 p.m. in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. (The game will be broadcast on ABC.)

Ask for the OU Club at the hostess stand and remember you don't have to be a member to come hang out! Coach Joe's has plenty of televisions to watch the game (and all the other games), $1.50 Bud Light draft specials until 8, and video games for the kids. Come on out and meet fellow Sooners and cheer our boys on to victory! Be sure to wear your crimson and cream!
 
Boomer Sooner!

Karen
President of the OU Club

 
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Human element is a bug in BCS system

Gil Lebreton of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

In the eternal struggle of man versus machine, man failed miserably Sunday.

That’s not to say that the right team won’t be playing in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday. The Oklahoma Sooners argued their case eloquently.

They said nothing.

No rented planes circling over Austin. No phone-ins from Bob Stoops in the middle of Mack Brown’s Thanksgiving dinner.

Just football. Just a 61-41 victory in hostile environs over a No. 11-ranked archrival.

The Sooners’ decisive win Saturday over Oklahoma State was as significant a road victory as any team in the Big 12 Conference achieved this season.

There’s your tiebreaker.

As myopic Texas fans — and their head coach — conveniently decline to acknowledge, there was a three-way knot, not a two-team tie, atop the Big 12 South standings.

Why should a single game played Oct. 11 decide everything? Why not a game played Nov. 1?

Yet, over and over again over the past two weeks, Brown had filibustered for voters not to forget his Texas team’s October victory over the Sooners.

Never mind, he seemed to say, that just one week ago Oklahoma took apart a then-undefeated, No. 2-ranked Texas Tech team by 44 points — the same Tech team that beat Texas on Nov. 1.

Never mind that the Sooners’ season ledger included nonconference victories over TCU and BCS-bowl-bound Cincinnati.

Longhorns fans countered by trumpeting their Oct. 18 — what is it about October? — win over the Missouri Tigers.

Oh, right. The team that Kansas beat.

In the end, what could Brown have done for me?

He could have just shut up and allowed his team’s memorable 11-1 season do the talking for all of Longhorns, Inc.

Instead, Brown began to show up on TV more than that Geico lizard. The poor-taste clincher came Saturday night when he agreed to be interviewed in the middle of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State telecast.

Why didn’t Oklahoma do that, Stoops was asked Sunday?

"I was asked to be on the Texas game Thursday," the OU coach said, "and I said no. I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t think it was right."

Stay classy, Austin, Stoops was saying, without mentioning any names.

But as Stoops and the Sooners saw, Brown’s politicking for his team worked. The Longhorns gained ground in both of the human polls.

Go figure. Texas, playing at home, defeated a vastly disappointing Texas A&M team 49-9 in a game that Colt McCoy was still quarterbacking in the fourth quarter.

Oklahoma, meanwhile, playing on the road, knocked off the No. 11 team in the nation — and yet lost ground in the human polls to the Texas poor-us campaign.

"It was the campaigning. I don’t think there’s any question," said Jerry Palm, whose CollegeBCS.com Web site is the bible for all things BCS.

For all the whining, in other words, about computers and formulas and BCS rules, the human element continues to be the bug in the equation. The same thing happened in 2004 when writers and coaches, after Brown again had politicked all week, leapfrogged Texas over Cal in the final poll and sent the Longhorns to the Rose Bowl.

Everyone seems to complain about the so-called "BCS computers," but as Stoops said, "They don’t have agendas. They don’t have loyalties. They don’t have opinions. They don’t have all the bias that everyone else does.

"And if you say no one else does, I don’t think you’re being truthful."

When the numbers were finally added, Stoops thinks that the strength of Oklahoma’s schedule likely was the determining factor that will send his team to Kansas City next weekend.

It’s probably not going to make TCU feel any better, but the Horned Frogs might well have sent the Sooners to the national championship game.

"For people to continue to want to play out-of-conference games that people want to watch and go to and be excited about," Stoops said, "there has to be an incentive. Otherwise, just schedule four wins and move on down the road. You could almost schedule a bowl game by that."

If Texas wants to blame anyone today, it needs to blame the guy that scheduled Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Arkansas and Rice. Similar cream-puff scheduling cost undefeated Auburn a title game shot in 2004.

This time, fortunately, the six BCS formula computers cut through the rhetoric.

They judged the football, not the filibuster. And Oklahoma came out the winner in more ways than one.

Read more here.

Thankful for the Computers

By Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated

For the first time in the 11-year history of the BCS, I find myself thankful for the computers.

As I wrote earlier this week, BCS voters were dealt an unwanted burden this weekend thanks to an ill-devised Big 12 tiebreaker format that forced them to play a role in determining that conference's South Division champion. I'm sure many of them felt conflicted about the Texas-Texas Tech-Oklahoma conundrum right down to the final seconds of Saturday night's Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game. I myself went back and forth on the issue a thousand times over the past week, even contradicting my own written words in the process (as several of you have pointed out), before finally concluding that the Longhorns deserved to stay ahead of the Sooners.

Apparently, numerous Harris and coaches poll voters came to the same conclusion, as Texas gained a combined 49 points on Oklahoma from last week's polls, despite the fact the Sooners, not the Longhorns, were the ones to post a road win over a top-15 foe this week. Still, there was hardly a consensus. Texas finished six points ahead of Oklahoma amongst the 113-member Harris panel, while the Sooners edged the Longhorns by one point in the 65-person coaches poll. Essentially, the human verdict was a draw.

In the end, the Big 12 South's title-game participant was determined not by a Facebook group or an airplane banner on Texas' behalf, or by the "emotions" (I'm still not sure how that word came into the discussion, but whatever) of watching Oklahoma's weekly 60-point outbursts. The Sooners are going to Kansas City because a set of completely impartial judges evaluated the data and determined that Oklahoma had a more impressive season than Texas.

Oklahoma finished No. 1 or 2 in five of the six BCS computers. Texas finished third or lower in three of them. The Sooners' average computer rating was 1.5; the Longhorns' 2.5. According to CollegeBCS.com's Jerry Palm, Oklahoma's win in Stillwater pushed it ahead of Texas in the two computers that account for home/away status, Jeff Sagarin's and Peter Wolfe's. A week ago, Texas' strength-of-schedule rating in Sagarin's poll was fifth; Oklahoma's 25th. After both the Bedlam game and Texas' game against 4-8 Texas A&M, that margin closed to 12th and 17th.

Not that any of this makes me feel more comfortable about the situation that transpired. If 11-1 Oklahoma beats 9-3 Missouri next week and heads to the BCS Championship Game, we're basically looking at a repeat of the 2000 season, in which Florida State edged out Miami for No. 2 in the final standings despite the Hurricanes' head-to-head win over the Seminoles. While Bob Stoops was adamant that the Texas-OU head-to-head result was irrelevant in this case because of Texas Tech's role in the three-way tie, the fact is, that should never have been of concern to the pollsters. Their job is to rank the teams in the order they see fit, not break a divisional tie.

Apparently, somebody at the SEC foresaw this exact scenario when he or she devised that conference's tiebreaker. It states that in the event of an unbreakable three-way tie, if the top two teams are within five spots of each other in the BCS standings, "the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the [title game] representative."

Something tells me that will come up in the Big 12's meetings next spring.

Read more here.

Lessons Learned this Week

Eric Sorensen of CBS

Texas just learned what karma is all about.

The Longhorns are up in arms about Oklahoma getting voted into the Big 12 title game. They should be. But look beyond the anger. This is payback My Name Is Earl-style.

Rewind to December 4, 2004 when Cal had just won at Southern Miss by 10 points (which included taking a knee with a minute left inside the USM 10) and was ranked No. 4 and in line to get picked up by the Rose Bowl since No. 1 USC was going to the Orange Bowl to win the national title. But then Mack Brown publicly politicked and allegedly made a number of glad-handing phone calls to his poll-voting cronies, begging them to rank his Longhorns ahead of the Bears in the final regular-season poll. This tactic worked. Cal's lead over Texas in the coaches poll went from 48 points to five allowing the 'Horns to jump the Bears in the final BCS poll and get the Rose Bowl bid.

Guess what Longhorns, 2008 is your karma for 2004. OU gets to go to the Big 12 title game because you only beat the Sooners by 10. Only this time it looks like it cost you a shot at the national title. Grin and bear it.

Read more here.

This match still may spark firestorm

From Boston.com

This much seems certain. When the Bowl Championship Series title game is held Jan. 8 in Miami it will be a team from the Big 12 against one from the Southeastern Conference.

Just which teams they will be is the only uncertainty.

Here's why this should happen:

Unbeaten and No. 1-ranked Alabama faces once-beaten and sizzling hot Florida in the SEC title game in Atlanta Saturday. The winner will be in the BCS title game.

Oklahoma will play in the Big 12 title game against Missouri because the BCS computers tell us the Sooners are the highest-ranked Big 12 team - the final tiebreaker to decide the South Division deadlock among Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech, each of whom went 11-1 and whose sole losses came against each other. Texas beat Oklahoma, Texas Tech beat Texas, and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech.

If Oklahoma wins the Big 12 championship game Saturday in Kansas City, Mo., it almost certainly will be in the BCS title game.

However if Missouri pulls off the upset, then Texas, No. 3 in the latest BCS standings, will move into the national title game against the Alabama/Florida winner.

However, with the BCS, nothing is 100 percent certain. What would happen if Florida beats Alabama on a last-second field goal and ascends to No. 1 and the computers drop the Crimson Tide from first to second in the final BCS standings?

An SEC rematch in Miami?

What would happen if Florida beats Alabama in a dull game lacking offense, and the pollsters and computers move up the No. 2 and No. 3 teams in Oklahoma and Texas, rather than No. 4 Florida?

An Oklahoma vs. Texas rematch in Miami?

The sticking point right now is the Texas-Oklahoma question. The Longhorns beat the Sooners by 10 points on a neutral site in October and yet are behind them in the BCS standings, which gave OU its spot in the Big 12 championship game.

Fair or not, there is precedent. In the 2000 season, Miami beat Florida State during the regular season, but the Hurricanes found themselves behind the Seminoles in the BCS standings when it came time to determine the national title game.

Florida State then lost to Oklahoma, 13-2, in the championship game.

Read more here.

OU Report Card

from NewsOK.com

Heisman campaign
A - 30-of-44 passing for Sam Bradford, 370 yards, a trampoline vault to set up a touchdown that will make all highlight tapes. Hard to ask for more.

 

BCS campaign
B - Sooners set the bar high against Texas Tech. A 20-point win is very impressive, but the game was closer than that.

 

Offensive line
B - Bradford was not sacked but had to scramble some. And though tailbacks Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray combined for 171 yards on 34 carries, the territory was hard to come by.

 

Pass rush
B - The pressure was excellent. The containment was not. Zac Robinson scrambled free much of the night. But two big sacks late turned the tide.

 

Kickoff coverage
C- Sounds crazy, a C on a night when OSU’s Perrish Cox returned a kick 90 yards for a touchdown. But the Cowboys returned eight other kickoffs for just 138 yards and generally did not have good field position.

 

Gambles
A - Bob Stoops went 2-for-2 on fourth-down conversions, getting touchdowns on both plays from the 1-yard line. A Bradford sneak and a Bradford pass. Good idea, putting the ball in Bradford’s hands.