OU football notebook

Even though West Virginia lost head coach Rich Rodriguez to Michigan, Sooner coach Bob Stoops is expecting a similar scheme from the Mountaineers in the Fiesta Bowl.

"They're going to do the same things that have been successful for them,” Stoops said. "They have coordinators and good coaches there that have been running the system.

"It won't change anything for us.”

•Good back to five stars: OU offensive lineman oral commitment Stephen Good (Paris, Texas) has been bumped up from four to five stars by Rivals.com

Good, who injured his shoulder and missed most of his senior season, returned for the end of the year and showed scouts why he had originally been a five-star prospect.

The 6-foot-6, 300-pound Good is now the No. 24-ranked recruit in the nation, according to Rivals.

•English's Canadian wins state title: Canadian High School, where OU defensive end Auston English attended, won the Class 2A, Division II title Saturday by defeating Elysian Fields 40-25 to claim the school's first ever state championship.

• Sooners excited about futures of English, Beal: OU's defense suffered late in the season without English, who missed the final three games of the regular season with an ankle fracture. But in some ways, English's injury benefited freshman defensive end Jeremy Beal, who was thrown into the starting lineup in place of English.

"We've been calling that a blessing in disguise,” defensive ends coach Chris Wilson said. "That forced us to give Jeremy more opportunities. And he's really grown the latter part of the season.”

In the Big 12 Championship against Missouri, Beal had six tackles, two for loss, and a sack as the Sooners held the Tigers to their lowest offensive output of the year.

•Sooners staying at the Princess: Football might be a man's game. But that won't deter the Sooners from staying at one of their favorite hotels, the