BCS National Championship: Oklahoma Sooners bite the dust when it counts -- again

I was at the game, Before During & After, Florida Fans could only be compared to the Morons at Oakland. They didn't have anything to say about their team, but could only scream profanities at the top of their Drunken Lungs about OU and our Student Body. These were easily the most NO CLASS citizens I have ever had the misfortune to encounter during a College Football Game. When I left, some losers who didn't have tickets still had their trash across all lanes of exit row. They left me no choice but to run over their Gator Logo Chairs. Actually I kind of enjoyed it.

most of what berry says is true but ou didn't rank themselves no.2 the bcs,and voters did, texas,usc,utah may have gave fla a better game,comparing them to atlanta braves is way off, no one voted them
into the world series

james u suck

james u suck

Jeremy, you crack me up. You tell me what a crap conference the Pac 10 is, and in the same sentence tell me that Oregon beat Oklahoma State because is was a #2/#4 matchup. You can't have it both ways, if the Pac 10 is crap, then their #2 is crap. You easterners are a funny bunch. The Big 12 loses or almost loses all of their bowl games against teams that they were ranked higher than. The Pac 10 wins all of their bowl games against, except USC, teams that they were ranked lower than. Yet you can sit here and tell me that the Big 12 is an elite conference and the Pac 10 is crap. What a dork.

Okiechokie. Not defending our comical bowl record (although, OU did lose to the NC's, and TX Tech lost to Ole Miss who beat UF at UF and LSU at LSU). There really isn't much to applaud in the Big XII, but I wouldn't rank us below the Big East or the ACC, or the Pac-10 for that matter.

Hey Matt...don't forget, its 9:31 pm CST and OU still sucks!

Poor Jeremy bitter because the Big 12 "significant victories" came over Ohio State, Clemson, Minnesota, and Northwestern. By your argument the Big 12's bowl record of 4-3 isn't significant either. Other than pointing out just how overrated the Big 12 was.

Dana from Tacoma. There is ONE good team in your conference. So what, USC beat a mediocre Big Ten team and Oregon (your number two team) beat an OK Okie State team(Big XII number four). Cal barely beat Miami. Seriously, there could not have been more than a few hundred people who watched Oregon State play Pitt. The Pac-10's perfect bowl record really doesn't mean anything significant. It certainly doesn't rank them above the Big XII.

Chokelahoma, Chokelahoma, Chokelahoma, Choke-U!!! I am Sooner born and Sooner bred, and I will die because I choked to death!!!

7:51 pm CST Matt and OU, Bob Stoops, and all of Oklahoma Still Sucks!

Keith, I don't know why you're obsessed with middle eastern wars. I'll win the one here, and if you're on the other side, too bad. Now, getting to football, the Big 12 is a sub-par conference, and showed it off this bowl season. Those of us that think that the Big 12 are par to the Big East and ACC were not proven otherwise. Oklahoma would have been about mid conference in the Pac 10.

Hey Chokelahoma

Please keep Big Game Bob, I've done well in Vegas fading him in big games.

Death, Taxes, and Big Game Bob losing a BCS Bowl Game.

ND has a better chance next year of making it into a BCS bowl and winning it than Chokelahoma. 6.1 Million dollars that is a lot of wasted money!!!!!!!
But hey OU buy a piece of history in 2008 it cost the entire school 6.1,million

ND has a better chance next year of making it into a BCS bowl and winning it than Chokelahoma. 6.1 Million dollars that is a lot of wasted money!!!!!!!
But hey OU buy a piece of history in 2008 it cost the entire school 6.1,million

Matt,
I like your comments since they are the FACTS and OU will wake up tomorrow and still be losers and known as Chokelahoma and Bob Stoops a 6.1 million dollar mistake and LOSER!!!!!!
Hook'em Horns

Matt,
I like your comments since they are the FACTS and OU will wake up tomorrow and still be losers and known as Chokelahoma and Bob Stoops a 6.1 million dollar mistake and LOSER!!!!!!
Hook'em Horns

3 Million dollar mistake!! BOB STOOPS his coaching skills aren't as good as they are in the regular season against good teams. He lost to Texas this year and was beaten again in the BCS game. Boise, Florida, Texas and let's not forget USC. Stoops' performance at Oklahoma has made him the frequent subject of head coach searches by several NFL teams as well as other college programs, which he has repeatedly turned away. He was reportedly the top-paid coach in Division 1-A football with annual compensation in excess of $3 million until Nick Saban was signed by the University of Alabama for $4 million per year beginning in 2007. However, Stoops will receive a "longevity bonus" of $3,000,000 at the end of the 2008 season (his 10th), making his annual salary in 2008 3 Million dollar mistake!! I don't know much about anything but I do know that is one EXPENSIVE mistake. Eventually the boosters, alumni and administration are going to want something like a BCS title for approx. $6,100,000.00. Chokelahoma and Bob Stoops can be known as the 6.1 Million dollar losers and ask the government for a bailout too on their loses. Hook'em Horns and be a man and comment on this one Chokelahoma!!!!!!

Hey Matt

Question? If you ignored the two times OU was 1st and goal and didn't score, does that mean OU still didn't score?

6:51 pm CST and OU still sucks!

Hey Sooner Fans,

If you want to follow Matt's logic, just ignore choking away your last 5 bowl games.

Just ignore that your coach is an arrogant ass!

Just ignore that Boise State Loss and the West Virginia Loss, and the USC beat down, the LSU Beat Down....especailly ignore those silly little losses to Texas...

Just ignore the jobless rate!

Just ignore the credit crisis!

Just ignore your taxes?

its 6:49 pm CST boys and girls and guess what? OU still Sucks!

Hey Matt

I'm ignoring your comments.... but I wanted to remind you

its 6:43 pm CST and OU still Sucks!

just a reminder boys and girls....

its 6:30 pm CST and OU Still sucks!

You guys should hire Kyle Whittingham..... Of course, he would have to lose all his class before coming to OU.

Best Football Chocking Golf Foursome? Bob Stoops, Marv Levy, John Cooper, and Rod Marinelli

"Hi my name is Bob Stoops and I choke in big football games"

Hi Bob, welcome to the group!

DALLAS -- The Texas Longhorns came into their annual showdown against the Oklahoma Sooners with a quarterback they could trust and a defense playing great under an aggressive new coordinator. Yet even after five solid wins, coach Mack Brown still wondered how good they were.

Now, everyone knows.


Red River Scorefest

Texas and Oklahoma combined for 80 points, breaking the record for most points in the 103 games of this rivalry. Also, the 45 points by Texas tied for the most the Longhorns have scored in the history of the rivalry (2005, 45-12 win).
Most Combined Points 2008 80 (UT 45-35)
2003 78 (OU 65-13)
2000 77 (OU 63-14)
1971 75 (OU 48-27)

Trailing the No. 1 Sooners nearly all game, Colt McCoy and the No. 5 Longhorns grabbed control in the fourth quarter and refused to let go, pulling away for a 45-35 victory Saturday in one of the greatest games in the storied series between these Red River rivals.

Texas trailed by 11 twice in the first half and by eight in the third quarter before spoiling a fake punt and turning it into a go-ahead field goal. It was the first time all season the mighty Sooners were behind, and they answered by regaining the lead.

Then McCoy came right back with another go-ahead score -- and his defense kept Oklahoma's Sam Bradford from finding an answer. When Chris Ogbonnaya turned a play seemingly headed nowhere into a 62-yard gain, the Longhorns were headed to their biggest victory since knocking off Southern California in the January 2006 Rose Bowl, much to the delight of their half of the record crowd of 92,182 at the Cotton Bowl.


Maisel: Chemistry Class
Texas' formula started with some Colt McCoy. The Horns added a big dose of Jordan Shipley. That mixture proved explosive enough to spark No. 5 Texas past No. 1 Oklahoma in a thriller, writes Ivan Maisel. Column
• Blog: Texas drops Oklahoma
"It was a game when every time somebody made a play, the other team would get more excited," Brown said. "It was one of the greatest football games I've ever seen."

McCoy's stewardship was terrific, the kind that will be remembered by Heisman Trophy voters. His numbers were good, too: 28-of-35 for 277 yards with a touchdown and no turnovers; he was sacked four times, but turned 14 rushes into 31 yards.

"We were able to attack, able to throw the ball," he said. "That was awesome."

Where Texas (6-0, 2-0 Big 12) vaults in the poll doesn't matter because if the Longhorns survive their upcoming schedule they will eventually make it to the top. They'll play host to No. 3 Missouri on Saturday, then to No. 17 Oklahoma State, followed by a road game against No. 7 Texas Tech.


ESPN GAME OF THE WEEK


The ESPN Classic Game of the Week will feature Texas vs. Oklahoma on Sunday at 7 a.m. ET.





Of course, they'll go into that stretch with the confidence of knowing they're on the inside track to a Big 12 title and perhaps the national championship. All from a team that, Brown said, "everyone has questioned ... including me. I sat around and said, 'I don't know how good we are.'"

History is on their side.

The last time Texas came out of this game undefeated was 2005, the season that ended with the Rose Bowl win and national title. And the last time the Longhorns knocked off the Sooners when they were No. 1 was 1963, the year Darrell Royal won his first national championship.

The '08 club lacks a star like Vince Young. It's just a bunch of guys like McCoy -- tough, talented and eager to keep surprising folks who thought they weren't ready to win games like this, against a team like Oklahoma (5-1, 1-1). After all, they'd played only one team with a winning record.

"Right now, this team would be known for heart and character and toughness and playing together," Brown said. "There are not individuals on the team, not guys who talk about themselves. It's been about 'this team' from Day 1."

Bradford came in as the triggerman of an offense that seemingly scored at will. They were 5-for-5 in scoring on their game-opening drive and made it 6-for-6 Saturday, after Brown won the coin toss and surprisingly let Oklahoma have the ball first.

But new coordinator Will Muschamp's defense limited the Sooners to 48 yards rushing, which meant Bradford had to come through more than ever. He was still good (28-of-39 for 387 yards and five touchdowns), just not good enough to also overcome some breakdowns on defense and special teams.



Fast Facts
• Texas beat a No. 1 Oklahoma team for the first time since a 28-7 win in 1963. It's also the first time Oklahoma has lost a regular-season game under Bob Stoops when scoring at least 35 points.

• Oklahoma's rushing game was non-existent, totaling only 48 yards on 26 carries.

• In a losing effort, Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford threw for 387 yards, the most by an Oklahoma QB in the history of this rivalry. His five passing TDs tied a school record and career high. It's also the most TD passes by an Oklahoma QB vs. Texas.

• Texas is now 14-3 vs. ranked teams since 2004.

-- ESPN research

"This is only one game and it's over now," Bradford said. "We can learn from our mistakes and refocus our efforts on the rest of our games from here on out. We still have a lot of football left to play."

Only two years ago, Oklahoma lost to Texas and still won the Big 12. And the Longhorns do have that troublesome schedule.

"It's not over by far," said OU receiver Manny Johnson, who caught three touchdowns.

The Sooners led 28-20 when McCoy marched the Longhorns for a TD that got them within a point. When Oklahoma's next drive stalled just shy of midfield, coach Bob Stoops called for a fake punt, only to see his punter get caught from behind, inches shy of a first down.

Texas got a field goal and was lucky to get that, as a third-down pass into the end zone was caught by Oklahoma's Lamont Robinson but popped out when he hit the ground.

The Sooners went ahead 35-30 with a touchdown on their next drive, benefiting from a running-into-the-punter penalty and converting a third-and-14. But Bradford was out of comebacks, and McCoy was just getting started.

He took Texas 74 yards on the next drive, overcoming a third-and-9 by finding Jordan Shipley free across the middle. The defense closed in at the 5 and he dove for the end zone but his knees landed inside the 1. Cody Johnson rumbled in from there for the lead. Texas went for 2 and Quan Cosby caught it after batting the ball over his head.

After the UT defense forced a three-and-out, the Longhorns went 80 yards for a lead-stretching touchdown, set up by Ogbannaya's long run.

"We started getting off the field when we needed to and that's when the big plays started happening," said Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo, who had two sacks.

Ogbannaya, a senior making his second career start, ran 15 times for 127 yards.

Shipley caught 11 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown, and had a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the first half. Cosby caught nine passes for 122 yards.

just like your coach after another choking loss..... not man enough to take the heat after a loss.

its 5:15 pm CST and OU still sucks!

your silence is deafening! I haven't seen any online comments on the Texas newspapers recently? Has every arrogant Sooner choked one their tongue's?

hey Keith from North Charleston...

what's the matter, your shell a little too thin to take some tough comments? You OU fans lit up every online newspaper after clinching the Big 12 South. Payback time son. Bob Stoops is an arrogant ass and OU sucks! Have a nice long winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, etc.... You OU Loosers may have a chance to get into the Holiday bowl next year.

its 5:09 pm CST and OU still sucks!

"Maybe Texas would have represented the Big 12 better?" At least Mack Brown would have had the guts to talk to the media the day after...win or lose. Is it me, or does Bob run his arrogant mouth after wins and is awful quite after choking.

its 5:04 pm CST and OU still sucks!

I am funny Dana. Thats why Hamas and the Israelis would both waive all fees for a missle attack and air strike against you and DO IT FOR FREE. AS YOU ARE PESONA NON GRATA. For the uneducated as yourself It means someone who has been rejected by a group. A person who is not wanted/welcome.

I am funny Dana. Thats why Hamas and the Israelis would both waive all fees for a missle attacka and air strike against you and DO IT FOR FREE. AS YOU ARE PESONA NON GRATA. For the uneducated as yourself It means someone who has been rejected by a group. A person who is not wanted/welcome.

Harry, Alachua - thank you for the refreshing comment about the game and for not trashing anyone - and you're a Gators fan!! You are speaking more kindness about the OU team's efforts and Stoops than some Oklahomans and OU fans are. Yes, it was a great game - two very good teams - and it could have gone either way.

3 Million dollar mistake!!
BOB STOOPS his coaching skills aren't as good as they are in the regular season against good teams. He lost to Texas this year and was beaten again in the BCS game. Boise, Florida, Texas and let's not forget USC. Stoops' performance at Oklahoma has made him the frequent subject of head coach searches by several NFL teams as well as other college programs, which he has repeatedly turned away. He was reportedly the top-paid coach in Division 1-A football with annual compensation in excess of $3 million until Nick Saban was signed by the University of Alabama for $4 million per year beginning in 2007. However, Stoops will receive a "longevity bonus" of $3,000,000 at the end of the 2008 season (his 10th), making his annual salary in 2008 approx. $6,100,000.00, not including potential bonuses of up to $745,000.

That is a great comment Dana!!! We all can see what happens when the OU offense plays a good defense. 2008, 2004, and 2003!!!

The Big 12 has two above average teams and ten crappy ones. They're in the east, so the sports media fawns over them when they run up the score. The exact same Oklahoma team that just played in the NC game would have been ranked about 15th or 20th with a few losses if they played in the Pac 10. THAT

Yer funny, Keith. People assume that since I'm from Tacoma, I'm a liberal commie. My motto is, is you know how many firearms you own, you don't have enough.

Keith from north charleston dreams of a three-some with bob stoops and Dana from tacoma.....

Editor's note: "It is not our intent to offer comments on local crime or fatality stories"........That line is bull, because the sooners just got killed, and it's a crime that they were even allowed to set foot on the field of any "championship" game.

Dana, your still a Cambodian midget troll living under your bridge in Tacoma spouting drivel no one really wants to hear anymore. Time to retire your lame comments and this lame article for that matter. Sooner fans don't need you or any other morons rubbing any facts in our faces anymore. I will have your coordinates targeted by both Hamas and the Israelis who would gladly blow you away into submission for a nominal fee. That sound you hear is incoming rounds, go hide underneath your bridge you idiot.

Editor's note: "It is not our intent to offer comments on local crime or fatality stories"........That line is bull, because the sooners just just got killed, and it's a crime that they were even allowed to set foot on the field of any "championship" game.

David, have your mom teach you how to use a web browser.

The Big 12 has two above average teams and ten crappy ones. They're in the east, so the sports media fawns over them when they run up the score. The exact same Oklahoma team that just played in the NC game would have been ranked about 15th or 20th with a few losses if they played in the Pac 10.

Sorry Barry I'm not much of a writer either!

Whom just got by a very subpar Ohio Team.

Whom just got by a very subpar Ohio Team.

Now we have to listen to the Mack Wipe and the Texas Longwhiner fans again. Whom just got beat by a very poor Ohio team.

Now we have to listen to the Mack Wipe and the Texas Longwhiner fans again. Whom just got beat by a very poor Ohio team.

Now we have to listen to the Mack Wipe and the Texas Longwhiner fans again. Whom just got beat by a very poor Ohio team.

One of these days the sooners will win the big one .But Barry will never be much of a writer!

Maybe if Oklahoma fans were as vocal,or as you state obnoxious, as LSU
or Florida fans they would not have lost their last five BCS games.

Maybe if Oklahoma fans were as vocal,or as you state obnoxious, as LSU
or Florida fans they would not have lost their last five BCS games.

What does ou football, dallas cowboys football, and honky-tonk country music all historically have in common? There is a lot of crying and cheating, and in the end everyone is utterly depressed...

Rick, the only reason that you played in 4 national title games was because of courtesy rankings. In 2003, OU lost to Kansas State 35-7 in the big 12 title game AND STILL got to play for the national title. And this year was funny because I heard OU fans saying "Texas shouldn't be playing for the national title because they didn't even win their conference." I'll bet they wasn't saying that back in 2003.

When bob stoops talks he looks like he has a mouth full of poop.

Easy Rick, just because I don't wear my name on my shirt doesn't make me an idiot, and luckily I am not unemployed - no need to get personal or call names. No one really concerns themselves with who loses bowl games (unless of course it is OU). Granted, Texas only played for one NC game, but they did win. And they won against the team who won the year before. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings with my Craplahoma comments.

Easy Rick, just because I don't wear my name on my shirt doesn't make me an idiot, and luckily I am not unemployed - no need to get personal or call names. No one really concerns themselves with who loses bowl games (unless of course it is OU). Granted, Texas only played for one NC game, but they did win. And they won against the team who won the year before. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings with my Craplahoma comments.

Allowing ou to play in a championship because they ran up the score on a few weak defenses and got a few votes in a rigged BCS system is like letting the neighborhood prostitute compete in the Miss America pageant....That ugly prostitute broke a heel and fell on her face....ou really stinks.

Bradford, McCoy, Gresham, and Williams are all leaving early - Hopefully Landry Jones, a healthy DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown, and our slew of talented young receivers can get on the same page. We will be young and inexperienced across the front but also haved good talent there as well. Defense is another story, with 9 starters returning plus RJ Washington, Jamarkus McFarland, a healthy Ryan Reynolds. We should dominate on defense and again compete for a Big 12 title and a BCS spot.

Jeremy from Austin, you are clearly some college-age, probably unemployed idiot so why pester OU fans with your worthless comments. Chokelahoma, real funny. If losing the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP is choking then so be it. Your team has played for the NC once in the last 10 years. OU has been in THE GAME 4 times dude. OU also still has a better bowl record than UT and has won the Big 12 6 times to what 1 for UT, or is it 2. BFD!!

stoops poops

As A Gator fan since 1966 I would like to offer my thoughts on the game, Stoops and Tebow.
That was a very exciting game and either team could have won. I was surprised how good the Oklahoma defense was. I hate to admit it but I was also surprised the UF defense held OU down.

If we ever lose Myer, I would beg the UF athletic department to go after Bob Stoops. OK is lucky to have him and the backbiting on this site reminds me of the way UF criticized Spurrier in the late 90's. Stoops is a winner and you are lucky to have him.

I wish everyone who criticizes Tim Tebow could be around him for a few days. There is a reason why sports writers and sports commentators praise him. He is one of the nicest men I have ever met and he will have a great career in whatever he chooses. I only wish my daughter could have met a young man like Tim.

After the fifth loss. The name "Chokelahoma" is just going to hang around their neck forever. Five Straight BCS losses. Two to marginal teams, and one complete butt whippin (USC). Hahahahah. College football is a load of garbage. Oklahoma only got to that game because of gaudy offensive numbers. Nothing else, their defense is marginal and they lost their only big game of the season. Remember that one Sooner fans (45 - 35) I hate the BCS. Seriously the only reason OU got votes is because they whipped Texas Tech. That's it, the only reason. Because a hot, overrated team (who plays lights out at home) traveled to Norman and layed a goose egg. OU was crowned after that. And the icing on the cake, the Heisman trophy winner's only two losses were to McCoy and Tebow. Give it a rest Sooner fans. You don't own the Big XII, you don't own anything. You sneak your way into these games because you have somehow become a media darling. Hopefully you will be dealt the same card that Notre Dame and Ohio State have been dealt and we won't have to watch you losing games you shouldn't be playing in the first place.

Opinion: Big-Game Bob's reputation takes another hit
This time in title game, Sooners falter against a team they could beat
OPINION
By Joey Johnston
updated 11:34 p.m. PT, Thurs., Jan. 8, 2009

MIAMI - Shortly before Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game, a plane flew over Dolphin Stadium, dragging behind a predictable banner.

The ‘O’ in OU stands for 0-and-4.

Make that 0-and-5.

And the questions continue to mount for Big-Game Bob and his Oklahoma program, which has taken its “can’t-win-the-big-one’’ frustrations to new heights.

Make that to new lows.

The Florida Gators performed as expected, snatching a 24-14 victory away from Oklahoma, which has now dropped five consecutive BCS bowl games.

“Everyone is going to have their opinions on it,’’ Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. “I’ll be glad to try again next year. If that’s the biggest burden I’ll have to bear in my life, I’ll be a pretty lucky guy.’’

Stoops’ program seemed to hit the lottery this season. It weathered a midseason loss to Texas, picking up steam and mounting what looked like one of the greatest offenses of our time.

So what were the storylines? Florida’s second-half offense was crisp. The Gator defense had its best moments when it really mattered.

Oklahoma’s defense, held up as one of the “joke’’ outfits from the Big 12 by Gators linebacker Brandon Spikes, had a winning effort, even though it surrendered way too much yardage (480).

The game’s underachievers?

Would you believe it?

Oklahoma’s point-a-minute offense was practically pointless, at least by Sooner standards.

The Sooners closed the regular season with five straight games of 60-plus points (and they scored 58 the week before). They had a ridiculous 97 touchdowns.

“Every time you’re watching the film, you’re saying, ‘Man, they kicked a lot of extra points,’" Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong said.

Thursday night, the Sooners had just two touchdowns, their lowest offensive output since a 28-10 loss to Texas on Oct. 7, 2006.

This time, Oklahoma’s offense stopped itself. For a team so brutally effective in the red zone — 95 percent of the time, the Sooners got points when penetrating the opponent’s 20-yard line — it suddenly couldn’t close the deal.

Two second-quarter sequences told the story.
# With the score 7-7, the Sooners drove to Florida’s 1-yard line. Chris Brown was stopped for no gain on third-and-goal.

The Sooners disdained a field-goal attempt.

No problem.

This game wasn’t about field goals — it was about going for the jugular.

But Brown had trouble getting under way on fourth down. He was dumped for a 2-yard loss by Gators defensive lineman Torrey Davis.

Opportunity lost.
# Nearing halftime, still tied, Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford mounted a 74-yard drive, reaching Florida’s 6. Momentum was squarely on Oklahoma’s side. Ten seconds remained. Time for one end-zone shot, most likely. If it failed, it was time for the field-goal attempt, a halftime advantage and good feelings all around.

Nope.

Didn’t happen that way.

Instead of a fade pattern or a jump ball, Bradford tried to force in a throw just short of the goal line. It was tipped once, twice, three times before settling into the arms of Gators safety Major Wright.

Exactly what Oklahoma did not need.

It got nothing.

“Obviously, I wasn’t trying to throw an interception there,’’ said Bradford, who was picked off just six times in 13 regular-season games. “We called it. It wasn’t the coverage we were expecting to see on that play. I tried to force one in there. In all reality, I should’ve thrown it out of the end zone and taken three points.’’

That wasn’t Oklahoma’s mentality, though.

All season, the Sooners didn’t take what the defense gave them.

They took what they wanted.

Against Florida, the scenario changed. And Oklahoma couldn’t adjust.

They weren’t patient (Bradford’s interception). They were a little too patient (Brown’s non-urgent fourth-down play).

They were unlucky (an apparent fourth-quarter completion to Juaquin Iglesias was plucked away for an interception by Florida’s Ahmad Black, while a 31-yard first-quarter pass to the Florida 10-yard line was negated by a holding penalty).

In the end, Florida fans will say Oklahoma’s offensive statistics were overinflated by competition in the Big 12.

I don’t buy that. But clearly, Oklahoma’s offense wasn’t its usual compelling self against Florida. Part of that was big-play capability by the Gator defense. Maybe Oklahoma missed 1,000-yard rusher DeMarco Murray. It made plays, but certainly not enough of them.

“You win and lose as a team,’’ Stoops said. “You need to make plays together. Some games are going to be high-scoring and you win games in different ways.

“In the first half, we squandered some opportunities to score points. That really hurt. But in the second half, when we needed to make some plays, we couldn’t do it.’’

All of Oklahoma’s magnificent offensive numbers will ring a little hollow. It’s still mind-boggling to think the Sooners scored 702 points in the regular season (the most in major college football since 1904 Minnesota had 725).

But what does that matter now?

You remember the last game. And that was Oklahoma’s mantra — Win The Last Game.

Didn’t happen. Now it blends in with all the rest.

When Stoops lost the 2004 BCS title (to LSU) and the 2005 BCS big game (to USC), Oklahoma fell to better teams.

This was a Sooner team that played head-to-head with the Gators for three-plus quarters. It created opportunities, but couldn’t cash in. More than anything, this was a squandered chance at finishing No. 1.

If Oklahoma had pulled ahead in the first half, who knows if the game might’ve turned another direction?

But it didn’t. And when the game was there to be won, Florida made the plays.

It makes for another long offseason. Stoops tried to put a happy face on things with a healthy dose of perspective.

“I’m very sure of what my existence is about, and it’s not [primarily] being a football coach,’’ Stoops said. “It’s about my relationships with my wife and kids, my friendships, my faith. I’m very aware of not letting it get out of hand. I do a lot with my family and I’m not going to put them behind anything. You can do both.

“There will be a [final coaching] record at some point, but I don’t much care what it is. In the end, hopefully, I’ll be sitting on a porch with the kids and my wife around me, enjoying the day regardless of what the record is. I don’t ever want to lose perspective on it. If you’re living the right way and have great relationships, you’re a pretty wealthy and healthy guy. That’s what matters to me.’’

No one questions Stoops’ status as a big-time coach.

But his reputation as a big-game coach has taken a major hit. Now it’s Big-Game Urban (as in Meyer, the Florida coach, who has two BCS titles in the past three seasons).

Stoops can only watch and wonder if one of his greatest opportunities slipped away on Thursday night.

Opinion: Big-Game Bob's reputation takes another hit
This time in title game, Sooners falter against a team they could beat
OPINION
By Joey Johnston
updated 11:34 p.m. PT, Thurs., Jan. 8, 2009

MIAMI - Shortly before Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game, a plane flew over Dolphin Stadium, dragging behind a predictable banner.

The ‘O’ in OU stands for 0-and-4.

Make that 0-and-5.

And the questions continue to mount for Big-Game Bob and his Oklahoma program, which has taken its “can’t-win-the-big-one’’ frustrations to new heights.

Make that to new lows.

The Florida Gators performed as expected, snatching a 24-14 victory away from Oklahoma, which has now dropped five consecutive BCS bowl games.

“Everyone is going to have their opinions on it,’’ Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. “I’ll be glad to try again next year. If that’s the biggest burden I’ll have to bear in my life, I’ll be a pretty lucky guy.’’

Stoops’ program seemed to hit the lottery this season. It weathered a midseason loss to Texas, picking up steam and mounting what looked like one of the greatest offenses of our time.

So what were the storylines? Florida’s second-half offense was crisp. The Gator defense had its best moments when it really mattered.

Oklahoma’s defense, held up as one of the “joke’’ outfits from the Big 12 by Gators linebacker Brandon Spikes, had a winning effort, even though it surrendered way too much yardage (480).

The game’s underachievers?

Would you believe it?

Oklahoma’s point-a-minute offense was practically pointless, at least by Sooner standards.

The Sooners closed the regular season with five straight games of 60-plus points (and they scored 58 the week before). They had a ridiculous 97 touchdowns.

“Every time you’re watching the film, you’re saying, ‘Man, they kicked a lot of extra points,’" Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong said.

Thursday night, the Sooners had just two touchdowns, their lowest offensive output since a 28-10 loss to Texas on Oct. 7, 2006.

This time, Oklahoma’s offense stopped itself. For a team so brutally effective in the red zone — 95 percent of the time, the Sooners got points when penetrating the opponent’s 20-yard line — it suddenly couldn’t close the deal.

Two second-quarter sequences told the story.
# With the score 7-7, the Sooners drove to Florida’s 1-yard line. Chris Brown was stopped for no gain on third-and-goal.

The Sooners disdained a field-goal attempt.

No problem.

This game wasn’t about field goals — it was about going for the jugular.

But Brown had trouble getting under way on fourth down. He was dumped for a 2-yard loss by Gators defensive lineman Torrey Davis.

Opportunity lost.
# Nearing halftime, still tied, Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford mounted a 74-yard drive, reaching Florida’s 6. Momentum was squarely on Oklahoma’s side. Ten seconds remained. Time for one end-zone shot, most likely. If it failed, it was time for the field-goal attempt, a halftime advantage and good feelings all around.

Nope.

Didn’t happen that way.

Instead of a fade pattern or a jump ball, Bradford tried to force in a throw just short of the goal line. It was tipped once, twice, three times before settling into the arms of Gators safety Major Wright.

Exactly what Oklahoma did not need.

It got nothing.

“Obviously, I wasn’t trying to throw an interception there,’’ said Bradford, who was picked off just six times in 13 regular-season games. “We called it. It wasn’t the coverage we were expecting to see on that play. I tried to force one in there. In all reality, I should’ve thrown it out of the end zone and taken three points.’’

That wasn’t Oklahoma’s mentality, though.

All season, the Sooners didn’t take what the defense gave them.

They took what they wanted.

Against Florida, the scenario changed. And Oklahoma couldn’t adjust.

They weren’t patient (Bradford’s interception). They were a little too patient (Brown’s non-urgent fourth-down play).

They were unlucky (an apparent fourth-quarter completion to Juaquin Iglesias was plucked away for an interception by Florida’s Ahmad Black, while a 31-yard first-quarter pass to the Florida 10-yard line was negated by a holding penalty).

In the end, Florida fans will say Oklahoma’s offensive statistics were overinflated by competition in the Big 12.

I don’t buy that. But clearly, Oklahoma’s offense wasn’t its usual compelling self against Florida. Part of that was big-play capability by the Gator defense. Maybe Oklahoma missed 1,000-yard rusher DeMarco Murray. It made plays, but certainly not enough of them.

“You win and lose as a team,’’ Stoops said. “You need to make plays together. Some games are going to be high-scoring and you win games in different ways.

“In the first half, we squandered some opportunities to score points. That really hurt. But in the second half, when we needed to make some plays, we couldn’t do it.’’

All of Oklahoma’s magnificent offensive numbers will ring a little hollow. It’s still mind-boggling to think the Sooners scored 702 points in the regular season (the most in major college football since 1904 Minnesota had 725).

But what does that matter now?

You remember the last game. And that was Oklahoma’s mantra — Win The Last Game.

Didn’t happen. Now it blends in with all the rest.

When Stoops lost the 2004 BCS title (to LSU) and the 2005 BCS big game (to USC), Oklahoma fell to better teams.

This was a Sooner team that played head-to-head with the Gators for three-plus quarters. It created opportunities, but couldn’t cash in. More than anything, this was a squandered chance at finishing No. 1.

If Oklahoma had pulled ahead in the first half, who knows if the game might’ve turned another direction?

But it didn’t. And when the game was there to be won, Florida made the plays.

It makes for another long offseason. Stoops tried to put a happy face on things with a healthy dose of perspective.

“I’m very sure of what my existence is about, and it’s not [primarily] being a football coach,’’ Stoops said. “It’s about my relationships with my wife and kids, my friendships, my faith. I’m very aware of not letting it get out of hand. I do a lot with my family and I’m not going to put them behind anything. You can do both.

“There will be a [final coaching] record at some point, but I don’t much care what it is. In the end, hopefully, I’ll be sitting on a porch with the kids and my wife around me, enjoying the day regardless of what the record is. I don’t ever want to lose perspective on it. If you’re living the right way and have great relationships, you’re a pretty wealthy and healthy guy. That’s what matters to me.’’

No one questions Stoops’ status as a big-time coach.

But his reputation as a big-game coach has taken a major hit. Now it’s Big-Game Urban (as in Meyer, the Florida coach, who has two BCS titles in the past three seasons).

Stoops can only watch and wonder if one of his greatest opportunities slipped away on Thursday night.

I would also like to commend the UF fan's gracious, sportsman-like, and accurate assessment of the BCS NC game. It is refreshing to hear some rational comment especially from the "other side".

Whoever you are, you have too much time on your hands. Some real analysis: Texas pulled it out with sixteen seconds to go against a team they were supposed to demolish. Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State all lost against lower ranked teams. All put up huge numbers during the season, and looked sub-par during their bowl games. Conclusion: The Big 12 gets their courtesy rankings each year because they're in the east, but they're definitely not an elite conference. Par with the ACC and Big East.

Opinion: Big-Game Bob's reputation takes another hit
This time in title game, Sooners falter against a team they could beat
OPINION
By Joey Johnston
updated 11:34 p.m. PT, Thurs., Jan. 8, 2009

MIAMI - Shortly before Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game, a plane flew over Dolphin Stadium, dragging behind a predictable banner.

The ‘O’ in OU stands for 0-and-4.

Make that 0-and-5.

And the questions continue to mount for Big-Game Bob and his Oklahoma program, which has taken its “can’t-win-the-big-one’’ frustrations to new heights.

Make that to new lows.

The Florida Gators performed as expected, snatching a 24-14 victory away from Oklahoma, which has now dropped five consecutive BCS bowl games.

“Everyone is going to have their opinions on it,’’ Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. “I’ll be glad to try again next year. If that’s the biggest burden I’ll have to bear in my life, I’ll be a pretty lucky guy.’’

Stoops’ program seemed to hit the lottery this season. It weathered a midseason loss to Texas, picking up steam and mounting what looked like one of the greatest offenses of our time.

So what were the storylines? Florida’s second-half offense was crisp. The Gator defense had its best moments when it really mattered.

Oklahoma’s defense, held up as one of the “joke’’ outfits from the Big 12 by Gators linebacker Brandon Spikes, had a winning effort, even though it surrendered way too much yardage (480).

The game’s underachievers?

Would you believe it?

Oklahoma’s point-a-minute offense was practically pointless, at least by Sooner standards.

The Sooners closed the regular season with five straight games of 60-plus points (and they scored 58 the week before). They had a ridiculous 97 touchdowns.

“Every time you’re watching the film, you’re saying, ‘Man, they kicked a lot of extra points,’" Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong said.

Thursday night, the Sooners had just two touchdowns, their lowest offensive output since a 28-10 loss to Texas on Oct. 7, 2006.

This time, Oklahoma’s offense stopped itself. For a team so brutally effective in the red zone — 95 percent of the time, the Sooners got points when penetrating the opponent’s 20-yard line — it suddenly couldn’t close the deal.

Two second-quarter sequences told the story.
# With the score 7-7, the Sooners drove to Florida’s 1-yard line. Chris Brown was stopped for no gain on third-and-goal.

The Sooners disdained a field-goal attempt.

No problem.

This game wasn’t about field goals — it was about going for the jugular.

But Brown had trouble getting under way on fourth down. He was dumped for a 2-yard loss by Gators defensive lineman Torrey Davis.

Opportunity lost.
# Nearing halftime, still tied, Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford mounted a 74-yard drive, reaching Florida’s 6. Momentum was squarely on Oklahoma’s side. Ten seconds remained. Time for one end-zone shot, most likely. If it failed, it was time for the field-goal attempt, a halftime advantage and good feelings all around.

Nope.

Didn’t happen that way.

Instead of a fade pattern or a jump ball, Bradford tried to force in a throw just short of the goal line. It was tipped once, twice, three times before settling into the arms of Gators safety Major Wright.

Exactly what Oklahoma did not need.

It got nothing.

“Obviously, I wasn’t trying to throw an interception there,’’ said Bradford, who was picked off just six times in 13 regular-season games. “We called it. It wasn’t the coverage we were expecting to see on that play. I tried to force one in there. In all reality, I should’ve thrown it out of the end zone and taken three points.’’

That wasn’t Oklahoma’s mentality, though.

All season, the Sooners didn’t take what the defense gave them.

They took what they wanted.

Against Florida, the scenario changed. And Oklahoma couldn’t adjust.

They weren’t patient (Bradford’s interception). They were a little too patient (Brown’s non-urgent fourth-down play).

They were unlucky (an apparent fourth-quarter completion to Juaquin Iglesias was plucked away for an interception by Florida’s Ahmad Black, while a 31-yard first-quarter pass to the Florida 10-yard line was negated by a holding penalty).

In the end, Florida fans will say Oklahoma’s offensive statistics were overinflated by competition in the Big 12.

I don’t buy that. But clearly, Oklahoma’s offense wasn’t its usual compelling self against Florida. Part of that was big-play capability by the Gator defense. Maybe Oklahoma missed 1,000-yard rusher DeMarco Murray. It made plays, but certainly not enough of them.

“You win and lose as a team,’’ Stoops said. “You need to make plays together. Some games are going to be high-scoring and you win games in different ways.

“In the first half, we squandered some opportunities to score points. That really hurt. But in the second half, when we needed to make some plays, we couldn’t do it.’’

All of Oklahoma’s magnificent offensive numbers will ring a little hollow. It’s still mind-boggling to think the Sooners scored 702 points in the regular season (the most in major college football since 1904 Minnesota had 725).

But what does that matter now?

You remember the last game. And that was Oklahoma’s mantra — Win The Last Game.

Didn’t happen. Now it blends in with all the rest.

When Stoops lost the 2004 BCS title (to LSU) and the 2005 BCS big game (to USC), Oklahoma fell to better teams.

This was a Sooner team that played head-to-head with the Gators for three-plus quarters. It created opportunities, but couldn’t cash in. More than anything, this was a squandered chance at finishing No. 1.

If Oklahoma had pulled ahead in the first half, who knows if the game might’ve turned another direction?

But it didn’t. And when the game was there to be won, Florida made the plays.

It makes for another long offseason. Stoops tried to put a happy face on things with a healthy dose of perspective.

“I’m very sure of what my existence is about, and it’s not [primarily] being a football coach,’’ Stoops said. “It’s about my relationships with my wife and kids, my friendships, my faith. I’m very aware of not letting it get out of hand. I do a lot with my family and I’m not going to put them behind anything. You can do both.

“There will be a [final coaching] record at some point, but I don’t much care what it is. In the end, hopefully, I’ll be sitting on a porch with the kids and my wife around me, enjoying the day regardless of what the record is. I don’t ever want to lose perspective on it. If you’re living the right way and have great relationships, you’re a pretty wealthy and healthy guy. That’s what matters to me.’’

No one questions Stoops’ status as a big-time coach.

But his reputation as a big-game coach has taken a major hit. Now it’s Big-Game Urban (as in Meyer, the Florida coach, who has two BCS titles in the past three seasons).

Stoops can only watch and wonder if one of his greatest opportunities slipped away on Thursday night.

If any Chokelahoma fans thank that Sam Bradford will return next season then Bob Stoops truly deserves his 3million dollar bonus. Matt Leinart stayed one more season and it cost him 10 places in in the draft and almost 30 million dollars. Sam is gone and so is BCS choking Sooners. Sam would be a truly dumb Chokelahoma Sooner and the biggest choker on the national stage if he stayed one more year. He doen't have anything to prove except win a BCS game which he is 0-2. Not every one can be a winner like the Gators or Texas Longhorns. I thought the Texas Aggies were dumb but the Chokelahoma Sooners take the cake giving Bob Stoops 3 million dollars as a bonus prior to losing the BCS NC. Texas has look of a champion Tuesday, January 06, 2009 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Texas won the football game Monday night. And probably nothing else, unfortunately. For one thrilling evening in Arizona's desert, that would be enough. The Longhorns put the wraps on one of the most exhilarating and satisfying seasons ever as Heisman runner-up Colt McCoy directed the nation's third-ranked team to a late touchdown and a 24-21 victory over 10th-ranked Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Any shot at a split national championship, though, may have gone awry without a convincing win over a co-champion from a league that too few respect. In all likelihood, the Florida-Oklahoma winner in Thursday's BCS title game will take home the big prize unless unbeaten Utah's longshot campaign takes hold. But Texas deserves to be in the conversation about No. 1. For part of the night, Mack Brown's team wasn't even certain it would finish No. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. Ohio State played that inspired and had a defense that was that good. But McCoy once again demonstrated why the junior should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, engineering his 10th comeback victory in a star-studded career that earned him a 32nd win as starter. With a year to go. He's Tim Tebow without the publicity blitz by national networks. McCoy set Fiesta Bowl records with 41 completions and 59 attempts, and he needed every one of them, given the small amount of real estate the Ohio State defense allowed on the ground. Texas somehow parsed together 72 yards rushing; it didn't appear to be that many. With the running game broken, the Longhorns fixed themselves up by relying on their no-huddle offense and five-wide formation for 26 of their 87 plays. McCoy completed passes on 18 of those 26 plays for 224 yards, many to Jordan Shipley and Brandon Collins and one on a very important fourth-and-3 play to James Kirkendoll for a critical first down. At the end, McCoy found his receiving partner Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap a 78-yard scoring drive and overcome a late Buckeye rally. Atypical of the classy 26-year-old wideout, Cosby ran unimpeded for the last 20 yards and drew an excessive celebration penalty by diving into the end zone with 16 seconds to play. Given the dramatic finish, one of the best in school history, he was completely justified. The NCAA should seriously review that arbitrary rule, too. Just whom exactly was Cosby taunting on the play? Once Texas batted down an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass by the Buckeyes, the Longhorns began a more acceptable celebration of an electrifying 12-1 season that will be remembered as much for what could have been as what was. What was was pretty darn special. "Texas is an outstanding football team," said Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel. So is Ohio State, in truth. Hey, it certainly didn't embarrass itself. That's major progress for a beleaguered Big Ten program beset by humiliating losses in the past two BCS title games. The Buckeyes played inspired football without Beanie Wells in the second half and with a freshman quarterback learning on the run. The Longhorns defense hung tough and relied mostly on a nickel defense to stop an Ohio State offense that made great use of its version of the Q package. Theirs showed results. Terrelle Pryor ran for 78 yards and caught a touchdown pass from senior backup Todd Boeckman. McCoy will enter next fall as a Heisman favorite, but Pryor won't be far behind and could win one of the trophies himself before his career ends. "Colt never thinks he's going to lose," Brown said. "His career kind of started against Ohio State (in 2006). He's got another year left to break the rest of the records. That last drive was a Heisman-type drive." Texas came within a single tantalizing second against Texas Tech of matching Utah's perfect season and finishing 13-0. Even so, the Longhorns more than proved themselves by beating four Top 25 teams, two bowl winners (Missouri and Rice) and a top-ranked Oklahoma team back in the Stone Age. The Horns should have set the table to start the 2009 season as they still hope to finish this one: atop the rankings. Mack said he'll vote his team No. 1, even though BCS rules require voting coaches to give the BCS title game victor the top spot. Cosby and Brian Orakpo will be gone in 2009, along with defensive MVP Roy Miller and five other defensive starters from a unit that mostly kept Ohio State at bay, holding the Buckeyes to three field goals until two touchdowns in the final seven-plus minutes. But McCoy will be back. And so will his favorite target, Shipley, along with four offensive line starters and more receivers than any secondary should have to cover. "I don't think anybody in the country can beat us at this point," said an exhausted McCoy. The Buckeyes came at McCoy all night, pressured him, roughed him up and hit him late, but he got back up and did what he's done his entire career. "I want to be in on the last drive to win a championship," McCoy said. "It easily shows the character of this team." When Ohio State took the lead and left Texas fewer than two minutes to change the outcome, McCoy completed 7 of 10 passes to win the bowl game. As befitting the best player in the country on — arguably — the best team in the country.3 Million dollars!!! I guess Chokelahoma got fool by Madoff too. I mean OU's version of him is named BOB Stoops. What do you get for 3 million dollars? What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma? He wins games and a lot of them I must admit. He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year. He wins Big XII championships!! He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus. He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year. He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years. Now the awful truth. He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!! He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!! He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!! He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!! The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down. 3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!! Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!Reversal of fortune: Oklahoma offense at fault in title defeat By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Who would have thought Oklahoma's so-called joke of a defense would keep the Sooners in the game against Florida, only to be let down by OU's record-setting offense? The Sooners defenders, who gave up a whole lot of points in the Big 12 conference, spent much of the past week defending themselves to various critics. Then they spent Thursday night defending the Gators, picking off quarterback Tim Tebow twice and handling themselves well against Florida's speed-kills offense, holding the Gators to 14 points through three quarters. They laid some serious licks on Tebow. For the most part, they caught up to Percy Harvin and the Florida speed merchants. "We believed in ourselves," said senior safety Nic Harris, who had one of the two interceptions of Tebow. "It was the media and other people who didn't believe in us. Within the white lines, in our locker room, we believed." But the OU offense, led by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford, could not do enough to avoid a 24-14 Oklahoma defeat. Bradford threw two interceptions and the offense twice failed to score inside the Gators' 10-yard line in the second quarter. Asked if he thought the defense played well enough to win the game, Harris said yes, but he added: "We're not going to blame the offense. That's something we're not going to do." Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops embraced that thought. "You win and lose as a team," said Stoops, who has now lost his last five BCS games. "Some games are high-scoring. Some are won or lost in different ways." Before Thursday, Oklahoma hadn't scored fewer than 35 points in a game all season. They set an NCAA record for total points and came into the title game having scored 60 or more points in five consecutive games. But after Oklahoma All-America tackle Gerald McCoy picked off an errant Tebow pass in the second quarter, the Sooners' pinball offense tilted twice. First the Sooners failed on the ground, with running back Chris Brown getting stuffed on a fourth-and-goal gamble from the 1. Then they failed through the air, with Bradford making a terrible decision near the goal line. Facing a first-and-goal from the 6-yard line with 10 seconds left in the half, Stoops elected to try one pass into the end zone. If that failed, there would be time to kick a field goal and take a lead into the locker room at halftime. The thing Bradford couldn't do was throw an interception. But his pass was A) short of the end zone, and B) thrown into traffic. After several Gators players juggled it, Florida safety Major Wright secured the interception. "Obviously, I wasn't trying to throw an interception," Bradford said. "They weren't in the coverage we expected. But we called a play, and I tried to force it in there. I should have thrown it out the back of the end zone and taken the three points." Before Thursday, OU had scored on 76 of 80 red zone trips, with 69 touchdowns. "We came up short on a couple of occasions in areas where we've been very efficient," Stoops says. "We had an opportunity to really make a difference in the first half."

Decent game to watch but not a classic, by far. I sure would like Saint Tebow to preach on some other station besides ESPN. That is not what we pay for. It's great that God gave him and Bradford and McCoy the talent but enough already...just play and appreciate the great college sport and the full ride that you are getting.

"Tradition trumps trend"---I disagree. "trend" is what makes tradition, not the other way around. The trend for OU is losers in the big game...how many in a row have they lost now? Just goes to show "Big 12" in the grand scheme of things isn't really "big" after all....

Thanks to the UF fan...I wish all sports fans were that classy. Not just Florida fans, but OU fans as well. I agree with 99% of everything you said...I thought some of the play calls were a little conservative, which leads to lack of confidence by the players.

William, the only reason that you played in 4 national title games was because of courtesy rankings. In 2003, OU lost to Kansas State 35-7 in the big 12 title game AND STILL got to play for the national title. And this year was funny because I heard OU fans saying "Texas shouldn't be playing for the national title because they didn't even win their conference." I'll bet they wasn't saying that back in 2003.

Just thought I'd give a Gator Fan's opinion of what I saw:

After not playing for a month, neither team looked particularly good. The Gators were definitely beatable Thursday. I was starting to feel sick the way OU's ground game took off for awhile. UF also showed a surprising lack of composure early on. False starts, idiotic unsportsmanlike conduct penalties--and I almost blew an aneurysm after the roughing-the-punter penalty. I thought that going after that kick (after blowing a timeout) was complete hubris by Urban Meyer. It was a boneheaded call and could very easily have cost Florida the title. I would grade Florida's 1st half as a C+. We made a few defensive plays and Percy Harvin had a couple big hitters. Otherwise the Gators offense looked pretty anemic.

We gave OU lots of help early on. OU was able to sustain some decent drives which could have eventually worn down UF's defensive front. The turning point IMO was OU's play calling on the 1 yd line. Yes UF played very tough on 3rd and 4th down, but I have to think that an offense of OU's caliber should have been able to score on one of the two tries. I may be overanalyzing, but I got the sense that OU lacked confidence on that red zone trip. That is stunning when you consider how prolific their offense has been all year. I'd have to give OU's 1st half a C- given that they had more chances than UF. At halftime, I'd say it was two worthy competitors slugging it out but neither able to gain the upper hand.

I thought both UF and OU looked a little better in the 2nd half, with a slight edge to the Gators. But neither team played a great game. 2nd half grades UF B-, OU B-. The outcome was anybody's guess until deep into the 4th quarter.

For me, the intangibles were the difference. The Gators just seemed to have a little more confidence at key moments. They made a couple defensive plays when they needed them. They converted several 3rd-and-longs to keep OU's offense off the field.

If UF had lost the game, I would have felt exactly like many of you do. "We let one slip away".

Parting thoughts
*Any coach who can take his team to the NC game as often as Bob Stoops deserves all the credit in the world. Yes it sucks to lose on the big stage, but most teams don't even get to the stage. Stoops may learn a few things that make a difference in future big games, but he is a hell of a coach.
*Bradford is the most accurate deep-ball passer I can remember seeing (when he has time).
*OU's defense was way better than advertised. They got in Tebow's face early and did not allow him to complete many long throws. He's not the pure passer Bradford is, but he can still hurt you with the deep ball if you give him protection.
*OU players and coaches showed a lot of class in the wake of a heart-wrenching loss. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about how some of UF's players acted in victory. (I don't have much tolerance for simian chest thumping and posing).

I know it's no consolation, but OU was a great team and earned the right to be in that game. If these two teams played 10 times OU would win its share. Unlike the UF's whipping of Ohio State 2 years ago, this one wasn't over until late in the 4th. Congrats Sooners on a good season. I'm sure the Gators will be seeing Boomer again soon.

The Sooners are a Great 2nd place team. The Sooners were given the Big 12 right to face Mo.
by a computer, they didn't win it outright. They were given the right to play in the BCS Title
game by a computer, and they finished 2nd, same situation in '04 against USC. The Sooner Nation has now been dropped to a second rate, second place, team. They now have 1 NC
trophy and 3 Red Ribbons in the trophy case. What an outstanding accomplishment for
Stoopsy and his staff, but they don't have time to admire their "Handy Work" they are to
busy counting their money. Just like the man said, OU got whipped in the Red Zone by
Stoops ole buddy, Dan McCarrney. It was Dan McCarney's defensive line that made the
stops when it counted. You would think Stoops would be tired of spending every bowl
game in the "Wood-Shed"? His fans and supporters are Sick of it.

The Sooners are a Great 2nd place team. The Sooners were given the Big 12 right to face Mo.
by a computer, they didn't win it outright. They were given the right to play in the BCS Title
game by a computer, and they finished 2nd, same situation in '04 against USC. The Sooner Nation has now been dropped to a second rate, second place, team. They now have 1 NC
trophy and 3 Red Ribbons in the trophy case. What an outstanding accomplishment for
Stoopsy and his staff, but they don't have time to admire their "Handy Work" they are to
busy counting their money. Just like the man said, OU got whipped in the Red Zone by
Stoops ole buddy, Dan McCarrney. It was Dan McCarney's defensive line that made the
stops when it counted. You would think Stoops would be tired of spending every bowl
game in the "Wood-Shed"? His fans and supporters are Sick of it.

The Sooners are a Great 2nd place team. The Sooners were given the Big 12 right to face Mo.
by a computer, they didn't win it outright. They were given the right to play in the BCS Title
game by a computer, and they finished 2nd, same situation in '04 against USC. The Sooner Nation has now been dropped to a second rate, second place, team. They now have 1 NC
trophy and 3 Red Ribbons in the trophy case. What an outstanding accomplishment for
Stoopsy and his staff, but they don't have time to admire their "Handy Work" they are to
busy counting their money. Just like the man said, OU got whipped in the Red Zone by
Stoops ole buddy, Dan McCarrney. It was Dan McCarney's defensive line that made the
stops when it counted. You would think Stoops would be tired of spending every bowl
game in the "Wood-Shed"? His fans and supporters are Sick of it.

I am proud of our team. I am proud and thankful to have Bob Stoops as our coach. The Sooner Nation supports this team and coaching staff. Pay no attention to the many exclamation marks and ridiculous comments by semi-literate posters claiming to represent OU fan opinion. Beware those who banter about "chokelahoma" and "gooner" ...they are only covering for their own inferiority. We will be back, and we will win. Tradition trumps trend.

So I guess it means mean any thing to play in 4 NC Games in 8 years. Are there any other teaams in OK that would like that ? or any other teams in the nation ?

Worthless bunch of OU bahsers!!! Do you understand what the letters F.O. mean in your small vocabulary?? We'll be back again next year for a title contention!!! Unlike your pathetic football team and, Oh by the way, bunch of Texas pukes, you're still PISSED about not being in the game. HELL, you almost got beat by Ohio State!!!! Be ready to have your asses handed to you next October!!!!

All you OU haters, do the letters F.O. mean anything in your small vocabulary??!!!

man if OU had qb sneaked on the goal line we wOUld have scored. what the hell? every dummy knows if yOU just need less than a 1 YARD QB sneak is the ONLY logical call. Also Venables shOUld kill himself for not puttin a spy on teblow! what the hell man? every year I say I'm not goin to another bcs game & get suckered into wastin my $, well yOU know what, bob, no more. florida didn't beat OU. Penalties & bone headed coachin did. I didn't see a decisive sec speed advantage. all that is crap. OU was the BETTER team. If Urban Meyer were @ OU we'd have 10 or 11 national titles by now maybe more. All I know is this is the SECOND title we have GIVEN to an sec team playin a virtual home game. I was tailgatin with a bunch of gaytor fans and there were scared to death & quiet til the end of the game, because they believed the media hype that OU didn't have a defense.

They'll never return under Stoops.

Mark / Clovis: you crack me up. You take a dump on the Pac 10, your reasoning is they have one marquee team and a bunch of crap. At least their marquee team wins bowl games. In fact, at least their conference wins bowl games. Pac 10 went undefeated in bowl games this year, and in every game but one, they were the underdog. Sure, it's fun to dump on the Pac 10, but it's getting more and more obvious that the Big 12 gets courtesy rankings, but can't perform against other conferences.

I know. Maybe if Stoops passed out cough drops before the game, maybe that would keep OU from choking. Nah, on second thought...

Poor Chokelahoma. They'll probably have to wait two more years before they can go for six in a row.

3 Million dollars!!!
I guess Chokelahoma got fool by Madoff too. I mean OU's version of him is named BOB Stoops. What do you get for 3 million dollars?

What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma? He wins games and a lot of them I must admit. He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year. He wins Big XII championships!! He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus. He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year. He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years. Now the awful truth. He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!! He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!! He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!! He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!! The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down. 3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!! Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!

3 Million dollars!!!
I guess Chokelahoma got fool by Madoff too. I mean OU's version of him is named BOB Stoops. What do you get for 3 million dollars?

What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma? He wins games and a lot of them I must admit. He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year. He wins Big XII championships!! He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus. He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year. He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years. Now the awful truth. He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!! He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!! He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!! He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!! The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down. 3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!! Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!

3 Million dollars!!!
I guess Chokelahoma got fool by Madoff too. I mean OU's version of him is named BOB Stoops. What do you get for 3 million dollars?

What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma? He wins games and a lot of them I must admit. He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year. He wins Big XII championships!! He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus. He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year. He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years. Now the awful truth. He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!! He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!! He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!! He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!! The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down. 3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!! Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!

3 million dollars can't buy Chokelahoma I mean the king of choke.... the Master of the BCS losers, the sultan of shame and sucking in the National Championship games BOB Stoops!!!
His website and Chokelahoma's is identical to their BCS record it sucks too.

This is a championship website too bad it's not CHOKELAHOMA'S

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/

3 Million dollars!!!
I guess Chokelahoma got fool by Madoff too. I mean OU's version of him is named BOB Stoops. What do you get for 3 million dollars?

What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma? He wins games and a lot of them I must admit. He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year. He wins Big XII championships!! He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus. He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year. He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years. Now the awful truth. He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!! He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!! He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!! He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!! The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down. 3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!! Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!

For Stoops: In the big games, think conservatively. Instead of going for a TD when 4th down at the two yard line, get your 3 and keep the momentum up. Would have been ahead by 3. When the best your FG kicker has done all year is 42 yds and he isn't all that good anyway, don't go for a 49 yarder which was blocked and probably wouldn't have been good anyway. Try for the first down. Keep the momentum going. When inside the ten yd line with no timeouts left and only about 10 secs left in the half, teach your quarterback to throw it away (giving time for another field goal) rather than throwing it to a receiver at the two yd line who is covered by three guys. Even if he had caught it (instead of the interception), he would have been tackled before crossing the goal line and time would have ran out. Another field goal would have put OU ahead by 6 points at the half. Might have changed the complexion of the game. This same type thinking and actions have killed us in the past BCS games as well as this one and am getting tired of it. Just win. Doesn't have to 60 points all the time.

Jim, Sooner living in Florida

At least the thunder beat Houston tonight. They did win right. They could not have lost again. i mean come on. Go Golden Hurricane.

Hey, Berry, go park some cars. Couldn't help but get a dig in at LSU, could you? You loser. Everyone owns your state. Deal with it.

Sooner fans - as a Gator I'm elated in UF's victory. A game that no one envisioned. Everybody predicted at least 4 touchdowns on both sides plus a key penalty or special teams play by either side. OU played a great game. But they played a better team. That said, I was quite impressed w/ the OU defense, which has been slandered all year. UF has a hell of an offense, but OU took a lot of it away. The problem was that UF's defense stuffed OU, which is what SEC fans predicted.

My problem w/ this game is that I've been a huge OU fan since I lived in your great state in the '70s. Can we say Jack Mildren, Greg Pruitt, Joe Wylie & Leon Crosswhite & the infamous OU wishbone?

I've read a lot of low rent posts on this forum - mainly from Texas & OSU trash who are elated by your loss. The fact is - they weren't good enough to play in this game.

The bottom line? If somebody kicks the Gator's asses next year, I hope it is my OU Sooners.

Tim...Yukon.....you SUCK!!! Hook 'em and Ride em Cowboys!!!! OU owns no one....get a life.

Sooner fans - as a Gator I'm elated in UF's victory. A game that no one envisioned. Everybody predicted at least 4 touchdowns on both sides plus a key penalty or special teams play by either side. OU played a great game. But they played a better team. That said, I was quite impressed w/ the OU defense, which has been slandered all year. UF has a hell of an offense, but OU took a lot of it away. The problem was that UF's defense stuffed OU, which is what SEC fans predicted.

My problem w/ this game is that I've been a huge OU fan since I lived in your great state in the '70s. Can we say Jack Mildren, Greg Pruitt, Joe Wylie & Leon Crosswhite & the infamous OU wishbone?

I've read a lot of low rent posts on this forum - mainly from Texas & OSU trash who are elated by your loss. The fact is - they weren't good enough to play in this game.

The bottom line? If somebody kicks the Gator's asses next year, I hope it is my OU Sooners.

OU has the best players, UT has the best coordinators and Utah has the best coach. Florida is good, but was lucky to be playing a poorly led OU team.
As I've said before, "sorry comrades, the Red Army has poor leadership." But, SBBF is better than Howard and Blake. Be happy playing for and losing championships. Not a bad gig, ask the Washington Generals.

Great Game! I don't have time to read all comments, so forgive me if I repeat someone. It came down to 3 plays from OU losing. A penalty that called the ball back from The FU 15 yd line, compliments of the Duke; A missed block on the O-line, allowing Brown to get tackled (shoestring); A thrown pass to Johnson that he failed to hold on to and protect. Nothing to take away from FU, they played a great game, especially since they were the visitors to an OU home team advantage. The score could have easily been OU 31-FU 24. It wasn't. I thank God for Stoops and his staff and all the players. Give me a season like this for the rest of my life and I'll never complain. As a matter of fact, I'll never complain about Stoops...best thing that could have ever happened to OU. Boomer Sooner!

I would have rather played Tx and beaten them. Colt McCoy knows how to lead a team. Bradford? Both can go fetch Tebow some Gatoraid.

I have a great idea...Big 12 winner plays Florida's high school champs

Sooner fans - as a Gator I'm elated in UF's victory. A game that no one envisioned. Everybody predicted at least 4 touchdowns on both sides plus a key penalty or special teams play by either side. OU played a great game. But they played a better team. That said, I was quite impressed w/ the OU defense, which has been slandered all year. UF has a hell of an offense, but OU took a lot of it away. The problem was that UF's defense stuffed OU, which is what SEC fans predicted.

My problem w/ this game is that I've been a huge OU fan since I lived in your great state in the '70s. Can we say Jack Mildren, Greg Pruitt, Joe Wylie & Leon Crosswhite & the infamous OU wishbone?

I've read a lot of low rent posts on this forum - mainly from Texas & OSU trash who are elated by your loss. The fact is - they weren't good enough to play in this game.

The bottom line? If somebody kicks the Gator's asses next year, I hope it is my OU Sooners.

All of you posers, haters,SOONER basher you can all kiss my and every other SOONER fans, we'll say foot, because all of you are the losers. All of you spend your time getting on the OU blog to spout hate. Your not fans your are pathetic losers letting all of us OU fans and OU sports hang out rent free in your heads. That is all you poor pitiful hate filled tiny little people know how to do.You spend more time thinking about us and OU then you spend thinking about your team. You get on here post some comment nobody cares about and you walk around thinking you have done something. What a sorry pitiful little life you must lead. Who is the loser?

Any other teams played in four national championships in the last four years? I didn't think so. In basketball, just getting to the final four gets you a banner. When we lost to Texas, I thought we'd lost our chance to even play in the Big Twelve Championship. We're Big Twelve champs, and we made it to the national championship where we held Florida to 24 points......without our best running back and our best player on defense. How would Florida have played without Percy Harden and their best player on the defensive side of the ball? We'll never know, just like we'll never know how much better we might have been with Murray and Granger. We shouldn't be hanging our heads; we should be sad we lost, but amazed at the year this team had, proud of our Heisman trophy winner and proud of our great football tradition. Look at how many bowl games Bear Bryant lost in a row, and yet who would say he wasn't a great coach and Alabama didn't have a great run under him? Time to move forward.

First of all to you Medium12 country folks, its The University of Florida and not Florida University. Thus its UF not FU.

Second, to 'R' in Seattle, you need to understand, Oklahoma didn't just give the ball away in the red zone and the game to Florida UF made a goal line stand and forced a turnover to end the half. So don't be delusional.

Third, by the end of game, UF had put up nearly 500 yards of offense. In the second half they owned line of scrimmage. Help me to understand exactly how Bradford's lack of leadership - caused Florida to make 24 points? That makes exactly zero sense.

Big 12, our high school teams could play there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osBBYbQXQDQ there you go Sooners,Tebow doing the Chomp on your sissy boys

5 straight baby! Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Its not stoops, its Big Bob OOPS! Trade that visor for a dunce cap!

Bradford should give the Heisman to Tebow, 4th best,hahahahaha shoot that mouth off Franks, Tebow broke it off in ya.

Bradford should give the Heisman to Tebow, 4th best,hahahahaha shoot that mouth off Franks, Tebow broke it off in ya.

Bradford should give the Heisman to Tebow, 4th best,hahahahaha shoot that mouth off Franks, Tebow broke it off in ya.

OU fans don't worry about these haters on here because we will keep coming back and keep playing for national titles because we are OU. OU is going to keep winning and dominating the Big 12 and we will be in these games. Proud to be a Sooner.

Texas fans want to call us Choke-lahoma, but how many times has Texas beat Oklahoma in October only to give the Big XII Championship game back to them in November? Who's the real chokers here? LOL! Thanks for the gifts Horn-chokers!

Greg you are the worst of all State fans and quite an embarrassment to the school. At least OU plays for NC's in football.

With all the smack the Texas fans are talking, you'd think that they were Big XII Champions...until you looked at the standings and saw that it was actually Oklahoma! BWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Trammel I bet you loved writing this as you are so anti OU. I am tired of the OU losing streak in the BCS games but most teams don't even get a chance to play in these games just ask OSU. The OU football team still had a great season and is the Big 12 champion. GO SOONERS!!!

Okay all, it's time to get this out of my system: I'm sick and tired of losing BCS bowl games, I'm tired of Texas beating us, I'm tired of being outplayed by the likes of teams with spunk and spirt like Boise State, I'm tired of saying that we own the Big 12 (there's a bigger world out there), and I'm tired of dealing with Texas fans here in DFW that rub our losses in (DFW is where a bunch of us Okies have to find jobs cause the best export out of Oklahoma is its people). It's like I told my buddies: I feel like a groom going to the altar 5 or 6 times, only to be jilted by the same girl everytime, and then falling in love with her again every Fall, and thinking this January, the wedding will go through. I'm tired of getting jilted, and want to get that freaking ring on the finger. Give us a WIN next year! Do I hear an AMEN!

Okay all, it's time to get this out of my system: I'm sick and tired of losing BCS bowl games, I'm tired of Texas beating us, I'm tired of being outplayed by the likes of teams with spunk and spirt like Boise State, I'm tired of saying that we own the Big 12 (there's a bigger world out there), and I'm tired of dealing with Texas fans here in DFW that rub our losses in (DFW is where a bunch of us Okies have to find jobs cause the best export out of Oklahoma is its people). It's like I told my buddies: I feel like a groom going to the altar 5 or 6 times, only to be jilted by the same girl everytime, and then falling in love with her again every Fall, and thinking this January, the wedding will go through. I'm tired of getting jilted, and want to get that freaking ring on the finger. Give us a WIN next year! Do I hear an AMEN!

Okay all, it's time to get this out of my system: I'm sick and tired of losing BCS bowl games, I'm tired of Texas beating us, I'm tired of being outplayed by the likes of teams with spunk and spirt like Boise State, I'm tired of saying that we own the Big 12 (there's a bigger world out there), and I'm tired of dealing with Texas fans here in DFW that rub our losses in (DFW is where a bunch of us Okies have to find jobs cause the best export out of Oklahoma is its people). It's like I told my buddies: I feel like a groom going to the altar 5 or 6 times, only to be jilted by the same girl everytime, and then falling in love with her again every Fall, and thinking this January, the wedding will go through. I'm tired of getting jilted, and want to get that freaking ring on the finger. Give us a WIN next year! Do I hear am AMEN!

bcs game next year? are you out of your mind? what qb of yours is going to take you there? bradford is going to be gone. your o line is leaving , your tight end is leaving, your coach is probobly leaving. yea i look forward to seeing ou play next year in the bcs title game next year. good luck with that

Texas sucks? USC sucks? OSU sucks? and statements are made about OTHER people crying and whining with no class? There are perenial top tier teams and those that scrape the bottom. Those are not at the bottom.

okiechokie, nice. very nice. if you read down far enough youll read that a "typical ou fan" was complaining of how much exposure colts parents recieved from the cameras and how bradfords parents never made it on tv. calling colts parents "media attention whores". poor sooners.

That's right, and Florida and Tebow had to make it to the show to have the honor of playing Oklahoma. And your Stillwater smack is weak. Did you enjoy watching OU play in another championship, Aggie. You paying attention? That was the BCS championship. OSU is a BCS member, do you feel that. What team will you be rooting for next year against Oklahoma in their BCS bowl game. You are a joke.

OU Fans - has anyone noticed that "trojansrule, Los Angeles keeps submitting the same comment over & over? First saw this comment after midnight, then just noticed it was sent again at 6:53pm. Looked familiar, searched, it was submitted seven times! Here is an excerpt: "... Hey, maybe stoops can schedule nebraska, missouri, and texas a&m for non-conference games. You could have a warm-up against iowa state, or a maybe a rematch against ut-chattanooga...". Isn't that the oddest thing, how someone would spend all that time - in this all day - just criticizing OU and trying to get everyone upset with them. Amazing, don't know about you, but contrary to the comments against oh let's see, against the entire OU school, OU football team, all the coaches, all the fans, the entire state - I actually went to work today and led a well-rounded productive life today. Jumped on here to catch up on news, comments etc - and what do I see - but more of the same that began last night after the game, and really, more of the same type of negative comments from the same people. Wish we could have a place to post that is strictly for OU fans. Someone wrote here that it's typical of all OU fans to whine, blame others, etc. Well, I have read many comments from OU fans (myself included) that said OU played a good team, and that Florida played well. I did write that announcers and officials were biased against OU and if you watched the game - and truly hate OU - you have to be honest that you noticed it through the game, too, and were probably happy about that. However, we who support OU, have seen that occur before. Many who posted here today who are OU fans, admitted OU missed opportunities to score. So you can say that ALL of the OU fans whine or whatever, but you are so wrong. You should know the facts before you start commenting. As for lumping an entire group of fans or state or school into one category is just nonsense. You who are so negative and angry need to get a balanced life, and get off this anti-OU kick. Apparently you don't realize that when you send such offensive comments, people wonder about you and why you bother to write. I don't spend my time going to Texas, OSU, USC or other sites and criticize them. That would be too strange to do that. What a waste of time that would be. I don't care to go trash any other school, their team, coaches, or anyone in their state. Have some decency and drag yourself up a notch and settle down. All of you!

OU Fans - has anyone noticed that "trojansrule, Los Angeles keeps submitting the same comment over & over? First saw this comment after midnight, then just noticed it was sent again at 6:53pm. Looked familiar, searched, it was submitted seven times! Here is an excerpt: "... Hey, maybe stoops can schedule nebraska, missouri, and texas a&m for non-conference games. You could have a warm-up against iowa state, or a maybe a rematch against ut-chattanooga...". Isn't that the oddest thing, how someone would spend all that time - in this all day - just criticizing OU and trying to get everyone upset with them. Amazing, don't know about you, but contrary to the comments against oh let's see, against the entire OU school, OU football team, all the coaches, all the fans, the entire state - I actually went to work today and led a well-rounded productive life today. Jumped on here to catch up on news, comments etc - and what do I see - but more of the same that began last night after the game, and really, more of the same type of negative comments from the same people. Wish we could have a place to post that is strictly for OU fans. Someone wrote here that it's typical of all OU fans to whine, blame others, etc. Well, I have read many comments from OU fans (myself included) that said OU played a good team, and that Florida played well. I did write that announcers and officials were biased against OU and if you watched the game - and truly hate OU - you have to be honest that you noticed it through the game, too, and were probably happy about that. However, we who support OU, have seen that occur before. Many who posted here today who are OU fans, admitted OU missed opportunities to score. So you can say that ALL of the OU fans whine or whatever, but you are so wrong. You should know the facts before you start commenting. As for lumping an entire group of fans or state or school into one category is just nonsense. You who are so negative and angry need to get a balanced life, and get off this anti-OU kick. Apparently you don't realize that when you send such offensive comments, people wonder about you and why you bother to write. I don't spend my time going to Texas, OSU, USC or other sites and criticize them. That would be too strange to do that. What a waste of time that would be. I don't care to go trash any other school, their team, coaches, or anyone in their state. Have some decency and drag yourself up a notch and settle down. All of you!

Stoops isn't going anywhere. He said that last night. He is looking forward to playing for the Championship again next year. I know Stoolwater and the Whorns pray that Stoops will leave, but you are out of luck.... Tebow (Baby Jesus), is as happy as a sissy in boys town today, but he still has no class. He is a complete fake. He could care less about those little Pflipp boys he likes to play with during the off season..... BTW, OSU Sucks....

Seems like there's a lot of rising blood pressures around here. Just want to throw out a hypothetical. I know bowls usually come down to matchups. OK ST vs Fla in Miami-Who wins and by how much? Honest answers now. Texas vs Fla in Miami Who wins? OU vs Oregon in San Diego, OU vs Ohio St in Glendale,USC vs Fla in Miami,USC vs Fla in Pasadena, which could happen next year. Anyway, I guess we all get the picture.

ou, the class of the big 12!!! Sure enough come bowl season the big 12 chokes and ou is the biggest choker of them all!!!! They are definitely the class of the big 12!!! Bahahahahaha!!!

Its ok ou fans, because ou is still be in the big 12. Hey, maybe stoops can schedule nebraska, missouri, and texas a&m for non-conference games. You could have a warm-up against iowa state, or a maybe a rematch against ut-chattanooga. Anything to boost the stats for the offense of the century! Maybe they can even create a new bowl, just for ou. We will play it in norman so ou will not have to worry about a neutral field. We will call it the sooner bowl, and ou can play cincinnati, so they won't have to worry about choking!!! Trojansrule, this is the best quote here!!!!!

M, you are right, OU owns the Big 12. The world knows the best two teams in the Nation played last night. OU will probably play for the Championship again next year..... Texas will cry again next season and OSU will still be looking for assistant coaches that will stay longer than one season.... BTW, Texas Sucks.....

it dosent matter anyway. stoops will be run off from all of the"typical" ou fans, and head to denver. bradford will head to detroit this year.

and florida is your daddy. oh yea and florida's offense is your daddy. oh yea and tebow is your daddy.

Let's get real. The saint tebow stories outweighed simple stand shots. For someone so saintly, he sure knew how to muster up an unsportsmanlike penalty. Where were the Bradfords, seated in the visitors section of this FU home game or in a club box with the Heisman group?

If OU choked that means they were the better team. If OU lost to a better team last night that means they didn't choke. It has to be one or the other. OSU and Texas can't have it both ways.

B O O M E R S O O N E R !!!!!!!

Dear OSU and Texas fans, when OU doesn't own you and your conference, your smack will make more sense. Right now, you and your coaches and players are just spectators to the main event every year. Stoop era- Texas: 1 Big XII championship, 3 BCS games. OSU O and O. OU 6 Big XII, 7 BCS games. OU owns the Big XII! You don't like it, only your weak stick programs can do anything about it. OU has nothing to apologize for except hogging the Big XII's automatic berth in the show. If your team is a big XII member, OU IS YOUR DADDY!

fire stoops!!!! thats what ou needs to do. all the typical ou fans on the radio today wre typical. you made it to the ship and got beat by a team that was better than you, your heisman qb got out played by a past heisman winner, and you all finally went up against a good defense and got beat get over it! just look forward to next year when you all loose your qb, your defense. you guys are really gonna kick some ass next year.

Just a curious observation. I watched the Fiesta Bowl and was bombarded with shots of Colt McCoy's parents in between just about every play. I watched the BCS Championship and never saw Bradford's parents once, nor Tebow's for that matter. I'm speculating that McCoy's parents are arrogant attention whores and they are intentionally giving their seat locations to the media.

CHOKE-LAHOMA WHERE THE STOOPS GOES ROLLING DOWN THE PLAIN!!! BUWAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!

To no name - Texas would not have beat OSU if not for a bogus roughing the QB call. That said, you can keep your Longhorns, your Gators, your Trojans - I will call them by their names as they are all great football teams. I will show them or their fans no disrespect. Also, I will get on here and write using the correct English - not use thank instead of think and than instead of then. Ugh! I know we blew chances last night not going to sugar coat it, but I will not hang my head and cry or whine! And although I will get ripped for this last bit - tough! BOOMER BORN, BOOMER BRED AND WHEN I DIE, I'LL BE BOOMER DEAD! RAH! OKLAHOMA!

Chokelahoma Sooner fans here are some facts that no one wants to admit.

READ it And Weep!!

Sooners losing a load of talent after trek to title game
By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — That noise resembling a thundering herd of cattle getting fainter and fainter?

That's the sound of Oklahoma's massive offensive line rumbling off to the NFL.

And the sound of sobbing and weeping? That's Oklahoma fans anticipating the early departure to the pros of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford, just a redshirt sophomore but already projected among the top five picks of the NFL draft.

Bradford hasn't announced his intentions, but even his coach, Bob Stoops, has acknowledged that if Bradford is going to be a top-five pick, "he ought to go."

If Bradford leaves along with all but one starter on the offensive line, which includes All-Americans Phil Loadholt and Duke Robinson, there will be many question marks for OU's record-setting offense for the 2009 season.

Adding to the uncertainty: Starting wide receivers Juaquin Iglesias and Manuel Johnson are seniors, and All-America junior tight end Jermaine Gresham is rated by at least one mock NFL draft as a late first-rounder. The only prominent receiver expected to return is Ryan Broyles, who had the most yards (661) by a freshman receiver in OU history.

The good news on offense is the wealth of talented running backs expected to return. Junior Chris Brown and sophomore DeMarco Murray, who missed the BCS title game with a hamstring injury, were 1,000-yard rushers in 2008. Sophomore Mossis Madu has plenty of potential, too.

So, if Bradford is gone, along with the offensive line and most of the receivers, could the Sooners go back to a ground-oriented attack? Wishbone, anyone?

Bradford's backup this season, Joey Halzle, is a senior. Still, Stoops isn't likely to ask Barry Switzer for his old OU playbook, not after seeing how the no-huddle attack worked in 2008, with the Sooners setting records for points in a season and scoring 60 or more five games in a row.

But who will be the triggerman? Right now, the best guess is Landry Jones, a 6-4 freshman from Artesia, N.M., who threw for more than 7,000 yards in his last two years in high school.

He impressed OU offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson when he took all the snaps in practice while Bradford was off getting his Heisman Trophy last month.

Will Jones be even in the same neighborhood as Bradford as far as big passing numbers?

The Sooners could lose most of their top playmakers on defense, too, and however porous the defense was at times in 2008, the departures still will be felt.

Safeties Nic Harris, a third-team All-American, and Lendy Holmes, who led the Sooners in interceptions, are seniors. All-America tackle Gerald McCoy is just a redshirt sophomore, but he could be a first-round pick if he comes out. Junior tackle DeMarcus Granger, who missed the BCS game because of back surgery, and junior end Auston English probably would be drafted, too.

The expected leader of a rebuilt defense in 2009 is Travis Lewis, a 6-2, 232-pound bundle of mayhem who, as a redshirt freshman, earned first-team all-Big 12 honors and, with 137 tackles, broke Brian Bosworth's school record for a freshman.

The cornerbacks — all-Big 12 Dominique Franks, who had two defensive touchdowns in 2008, and Brian Jackson — should be back

Reversal of fortune: Oklahoma offense at fault in title defeat
By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Who would have thought Oklahoma's so-called joke of a defense would keep the Sooners in the game against Florida, only to be let down by OU's record-setting offense?

The Sooners defenders, who gave up a whole lot of points in the Big 12 conference, spent much of the past week defending themselves to various critics.

Then they spent Thursday night defending the Gators, picking off quarterback Tim Tebow twice and handling themselves well against Florida's speed-kills offense, holding the Gators to 14 points through three quarters.

They laid some serious licks on Tebow. For the most part, they caught up to Percy Harvin and the Florida speed merchants.

"We believed in ourselves," said senior safety Nic Harris, who had one of the two interceptions of Tebow. "It was the media and other people who didn't believe in us. Within the white lines, in our locker room, we believed."

But the OU offense, led by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford, could not do enough to avoid a 24-14 Oklahoma defeat.

Bradford threw two interceptions and the offense twice failed to score inside the Gators' 10-yard line in the second quarter.

Asked if he thought the defense played well enough to win the game, Harris said yes, but he added: "We're not going to blame the offense. That's something we're not going to do."

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops embraced that thought.

"You win and lose as a team," said Stoops, who has now lost his last five BCS games. "Some games are high-scoring. Some are won or lost in different ways."

Before Thursday, Oklahoma hadn't scored fewer than 35 points in a game all season. They set an NCAA record for total points and came into the title game having scored 60 or more points in five consecutive games.

But after Oklahoma All-America tackle Gerald McCoy picked off an errant Tebow pass in the second quarter, the Sooners' pinball offense tilted twice.

First the Sooners failed on the ground, with running back Chris Brown getting stuffed on a fourth-and-goal gamble from the 1. Then they failed through the air, with Bradford making a terrible decision near the goal line. Facing a first-and-goal from the 6-yard line with 10 seconds left in the half, Stoops elected to try one pass into the end zone. If that failed, there would be time to kick a field goal and take a lead into the locker room at halftime.

The thing Bradford couldn't do was throw an interception. But his pass was A) short of the end zone, and B) thrown into traffic. After several Gators players juggled it, Florida safety Major Wright secured the interception.

"Obviously, I wasn't trying to throw an interception," Bradford said. "They weren't in the coverage we expected. But we called a play, and I tried to force it in there. I should have thrown it out the back of the end zone and taken the three points."

Before Thursday, OU had scored on 76 of 80 red zone trips, with 69 touchdowns.

"We came up short on a couple of occasions in areas where we've been very efficient," Stoops says. "We had an opportunity to really make a difference in the first half."

There were bad calls by the refs just like there are in just about every game. If the team is championship caliber, they fight through it and overcome. What I saw were some poor coaching calls that cost points, points that would have changed the 4th quarter's game plan. Defenses not lasting 4 quarters will lose championships. How may times was this team tested in the 4th quarter this season. There is something to be said about winning close games and testing the team for those games where you have to pull something extra. The RRR was the first sign of danger.

What does Bob Stoops bring to Chokelahoma?
He wins games and a lot of them I must admit.
He has Chokelahoma in the National Spotlight every year.
He wins Big XII championships!!
He gets paid big bucks every year it's in his contract and his 3 million dollar bonus.
He has the Sooners playing in a BCS bowl damn near every year.
He plays for the National Championship 4 times in 9 years.
Now the awful truth.
He loses 5 straight BCS bowls!!
He doesn't score more than 14 points in any of his BCS games!!
He is the first coach to lose 3 straight BCS championships!!!
He was paid 3 million dollars prior to the 2009 Orange Bowl BCS Championship!!!
The Denver Broncos were blessed that Bob Stoops turned them down.
3 million dollars can but a lot of things but not BCS bowl victories and it doesn't buy Chokelahoma ANY BCS Championships!!!!!
Chokelahoma can keep Bob Stoops I don't thank the NFL, CFL or defunct XFL would want him now. Bob Stoops is a wise investment he is Chokelahoma's version of the economic collapse. He looks good when he plays everyone but Texas and than reality hits and he too is a BUST!!!

I love OU. I love Bob Stoops. But, when you haven't had a mentally tough leader on either side of the ball since Nate Hybl who rose to the occasion the year we won the Rose Bowl. Sam Bradford is phenomenal. I wish him the best pro career. And, I definitely hope he comes back next year. But, on either side of the ball, we lack the fire in the belly or the eye of the tiger like we've had with players such as Josh Heupel, Roy Williams, Rocky Calmus, Torrance Marshall or even Onte Jones back in 2000.

jeff plano; 58 and 40 is all you can come with. what a joke!!! if not for the refs tx would not have beat OU no mater how bad OU played. i said it after the game. That was the worst game OU played for a half. the best tx could play and tx still needed ref help to win. poor tx. I cna not wati for the next game. Mack will be crying the blews.

To no name - Texas would not have beat OSU if not for a bogus roughing the QB call. That said, you can keep your Longhorns, your Gators, your Trojans - I will call them by their names as they are all great football teams. I will show them or their fans no disrespect. Also, I will get on here and write using the correct English - not use thank instead of think and than instead of then. Ugh! I know we blew chances last night not going to sugar coat it, but I will not hang my head and cry or whine! And although I will get ripped for this last bit - tough! BOOMER BORN, BOOMER BRED AND WHEN I DIE, I'LL BE BOOMER DEAD! RAH! OKLAHOMA!

Jeff Plano; I did not know tx loosers that clean toilets could afford a car. I just try to put words that wacks like you could understand. I guess it worked you seem to get the message clear. Bottom line tx even with all its money can not match OU tradition. Again, OU has 6 of 7 big twelve championships, 7 national championships, 5 Heisman trophy winners. How many does tx have? oh ya not enough. stickk your head back in the toilet and take a deep breath you will feel so much better and get a real dose of reallity.

If any Chokelahoma fans thank that Sam Bradford will return next season than Bob Stoops truly deserves his 3million dollar bonus. Matt Leinart stayed one more season and it cost him 10 places in in the draft and almost 30 million dollars. Sam is gone and so is BCS choking Sooners. Sam would be a truly dumb Chokelahoma Sooner and the biggest choker on the national stage if he stayed one more year. He doen't have anything to prove except win a BCS game which he is 0-2. Not every one can be a winner like the Gators or Texas Longhorns. I thought the Texas Aggies were dumb but the Chokelahoma Sooners take the cake giving Bob Stoops 3 million dollars as a bonus prior to losing the BCS NC.
Texas has look of a champion
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Texas won the football game Monday night.

And probably nothing else, unfortunately.

For one thrilling evening in Arizona's desert, that would be enough.

The Longhorns put the wraps on one of the most exhilarating and satisfying seasons ever as Heisman runner-up Colt McCoy directed the nation's third-ranked team to a late touchdown and a 24-21 victory over 10th-ranked Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

Any shot at a split national championship, though, may have gone awry without a convincing win over a co-champion from a league that too few respect.

In all likelihood, the Florida-Oklahoma winner in Thursday's BCS title game will take home the big prize unless unbeaten Utah's longshot campaign takes hold. But Texas deserves to be in the conversation about No. 1.

For part of the night, Mack Brown's team wasn't even certain it would finish No. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. Ohio State played that inspired and had a defense that was that good.

But McCoy once again demonstrated why the junior should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, engineering his 10th comeback victory in a star-studded career that earned him a 32nd win as starter. With a year to go.

He's Tim Tebow without the publicity blitz by national networks.

McCoy set Fiesta Bowl records with 41 completions and 59 attempts, and he needed every one of them, given the small amount of real estate the Ohio State defense allowed on the ground.

Texas somehow parsed together 72 yards rushing; it didn't appear to be that many. With the running game broken, the Longhorns fixed themselves up by relying on their no-huddle offense and five-wide formation for 26 of their 87 plays. McCoy completed passes on 18 of those 26 plays for 224 yards, many to Jordan Shipley and Brandon Collins and one on a very important fourth-and-3 play to James Kirkendoll for a critical first down.

At the end, McCoy found his receiving partner Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap a 78-yard scoring drive and overcome a late Buckeye rally.

Atypical of the classy 26-year-old wideout, Cosby ran unimpeded for the last 20 yards and drew an excessive celebration penalty by diving into the end zone with 16 seconds to play.

Given the dramatic finish, one of the best in school history, he was completely justified. The NCAA should seriously review that arbitrary rule, too. Just whom exactly was Cosby taunting on the play?

Once Texas batted down an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass by the Buckeyes, the Longhorns began a more acceptable celebration of an electrifying 12-1 season that will be remembered as much for what could have been as what was.

What was was pretty darn special.

"Texas is an outstanding football team," said Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel.

So is Ohio State, in truth. Hey, it certainly didn't embarrass itself. That's major progress for a beleaguered Big Ten program beset by humiliating losses in the past two BCS title games. The Buckeyes played inspired football without Beanie Wells in the second half and with a freshman quarterback learning on the run.

The Longhorns defense hung tough and relied mostly on a nickel defense to stop an Ohio State offense that made great use of its version of the Q package. Theirs showed results. Terrelle Pryor ran for 78 yards and caught a touchdown pass from senior backup Todd Boeckman.

McCoy will enter next fall as a Heisman favorite, but Pryor won't be far behind and could win one of the trophies himself before his career ends.

"Colt never thinks he's going to lose," Brown said. "His career kind of started against Ohio State (in 2006). He's got another year left to break the rest of the records. That last drive was a Heisman-type drive."

Texas came within a single tantalizing second against Texas Tech of matching Utah's perfect season and finishing 13-0. Even so, the Longhorns more than proved themselves by beating four Top 25 teams, two bowl winners (Missouri and Rice) and a top-ranked Oklahoma team back in the Stone Age.

The Horns should have set the table to start the 2009 season as they still hope to finish this one: atop the rankings. Mack said he'll vote his team No. 1, even though BCS rules require voting coaches to give the BCS title game victor the top spot.

Cosby and Brian Orakpo will be gone in 2009, along with defensive MVP Roy Miller and five other defensive starters from a unit that mostly kept Ohio State at bay, holding the Buckeyes to three field goals until two touchdowns in the final seven-plus minutes.

But McCoy will be back. And so will his favorite target, Shipley, along with four offensive line starters and more receivers than any secondary should have to cover.

"I don't think anybody in the country can beat us at this point," said an exhausted McCoy. The Buckeyes came at McCoy all night, pressured him, roughed him up and hit him late, but he got back up and did what he's done his entire career.

"I want to be in on the last drive to win a championship," McCoy said. "It easily shows the character of this team."

When Ohio State took the lead and left Texas fewer than two minutes to change the outcome, McCoy completed 7 of 10 passes to win the bowl game.

As befitting the best player in the country on — arguably — the best team in the country.

we can't close the fucking deal .........period - quit debating it - it's factual

If any Chokelahoma fans thank that Sam Bradford will return next season than Bob Stoops truly deserves his 3million dollar bonus. Matt Leinart stayed one more season and it cost him 10 places in in the draft and almost 30 million dollars. Sam is gone and so is BCS choking Sooners. Sam would be a truly dumb Chokelahoma Sooner and the biggest choker on the national stage if he stayed one more year. He doen't have anything to prove except win a BCS game which he is 0-2. Not every one can be a winner like the Gators or Texas Longhorns. I thought the Texas Aggies were dumb but the Chokelahoma Sooners take the cake giving Bob Stoops 3 million dollars as a bonus prior to losing the BCS NC.
Texas has look of a champion
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Texas won the football game Monday night.

And probably nothing else, unfortunately.

For one thrilling evening in Arizona's desert, that would be enough.

The Longhorns put the wraps on one of the most exhilarating and satisfying seasons ever as Heisman runner-up Colt McCoy directed the nation's third-ranked team to a late touchdown and a 24-21 victory over 10th-ranked Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

Any shot at a split national championship, though, may have gone awry without a convincing win over a co-champion from a league that too few respect.

In all likelihood, the Florida-Oklahoma winner in Thursday's BCS title game will take home the big prize unless unbeaten Utah's longshot campaign takes hold. But Texas deserves to be in the conversation about No. 1.

For part of the night, Mack Brown's team wasn't even certain it would finish No. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. Ohio State played that inspired and had a defense that was that good.

But McCoy once again demonstrated why the junior should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, engineering his 10th comeback victory in a star-studded career that earned him a 32nd win as starter. With a year to go.

He's Tim Tebow without the publicity blitz by national networks.

McCoy set Fiesta Bowl records with 41 completions and 59 attempts, and he needed every one of them, given the small amount of real estate the Ohio State defense allowed on the ground.

Texas somehow parsed together 72 yards rushing; it didn't appear to be that many. With the running game broken, the Longhorns fixed themselves up by relying on their no-huddle offense and five-wide formation for 26 of their 87 plays. McCoy completed passes on 18 of those 26 plays for 224 yards, many to Jordan Shipley and Brandon Collins and one on a very important fourth-and-3 play to James Kirkendoll for a critical first down.

At the end, McCoy found his receiving partner Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap a 78-yard scoring drive and overcome a late Buckeye rally.

Atypical of the classy 26-year-old wideout, Cosby ran unimpeded for the last 20 yards and drew an excessive celebration penalty by diving into the end zone with 16 seconds to play.

Given the dramatic finish, one of the best in school history, he was completely justified. The NCAA should seriously review that arbitrary rule, too. Just whom exactly was Cosby taunting on the play?

Once Texas batted down an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass by the Buckeyes, the Longhorns began a more acceptable celebration of an electrifying 12-1 season that will be remembered as much for what could have been as what was.

What was was pretty darn special.

"Texas is an outstanding football team," said Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel.

So is Ohio State, in truth. Hey, it certainly didn't embarrass itself. That's major progress for a beleaguered Big Ten program beset by humiliating losses in the past two BCS title games. The Buckeyes played inspired football without Beanie Wells in the second half and with a freshman quarterback learning on the run.

The Longhorns defense hung tough and relied mostly on a nickel defense to stop an Ohio State offense that made great use of its version of the Q package. Theirs showed results. Terrelle Pryor ran for 78 yards and caught a touchdown pass from senior backup Todd Boeckman.

McCoy will enter next fall as a Heisman favorite, but Pryor won't be far behind and could win one of the trophies himself before his career ends.

"Colt never thinks he's going to lose," Brown said. "His career kind of started against Ohio State (in 2006). He's got another year left to break the rest of the records. That last drive was a Heisman-type drive."

Texas came within a single tantalizing second against Texas Tech of matching Utah's perfect season and finishing 13-0. Even so, the Longhorns more than proved themselves by beating four Top 25 teams, two bowl winners (Missouri and Rice) and a top-ranked Oklahoma team back in the Stone Age.

The Horns should have set the table to start the 2009 season as they still hope to finish this one: atop the rankings. Mack said he'll vote his team No. 1, even though BCS rules require voting coaches to give the BCS title game victor the top spot.

Cosby and Brian Orakpo will be gone in 2009, along with defensive MVP Roy Miller and five other defensive starters from a unit that mostly kept Ohio State at bay, holding the Buckeyes to three field goals until two touchdowns in the final seven-plus minutes.

But McCoy will be back. And so will his favorite target, Shipley, along with four offensive line starters and more receivers than any secondary should have to cover.

"I don't think anybody in the country can beat us at this point," said an exhausted McCoy. The Buckeyes came at McCoy all night, pressured him, roughed him up and hit him late, but he got back up and did what he's done his entire career.

"I want to be in on the last drive to win a championship," McCoy said. "It easily shows the character of this team."

When Ohio State took the lead and left Texas fewer than two minutes to change the outcome, McCoy completed 7 of 10 passes to win the bowl game.

As befitting the best player in the country on — arguably — the best team in the country.

If any Chokelahoma fans thank that Sam Bradford will return next season than Bob Stoops truly deserves his 3million dollar bonus. Matt Leinart stayed one more season and it cost him 10 places in in the draft and almost 30 million dollars. Sam is gone and so is BCS choking Sooners. Sam would be a truly dumb Chokelahoma Sooner and the biggest choker on the national stage if he stayed one more year. He doen't have anything to prove except win a BCS game which he is 0-2. Not every one can be a winner like the Gators or Texas Longhorns. I thought the Texas Aggies were dumb but the Chokelahoma Sooners take the cake giving Bob Stoops 3 million dollars as a bonus prior to losing the BCS NC.
Texas has look of a champion
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Texas won the football game Monday night.

And probably nothing else, unfortunately.

For one thrilling evening in Arizona's desert, that would be enough.

The Longhorns put the wraps on one of the most exhilarating and satisfying seasons ever as Heisman runner-up Colt McCoy directed the nation's third-ranked team to a late touchdown and a 24-21 victory over 10th-ranked Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

Any shot at a split national championship, though, may have gone awry without a convincing win over a co-champion from a league that too few respect.

In all likelihood, the Florida-Oklahoma winner in Thursday's BCS title game will take home the big prize unless unbeaten Utah's longshot campaign takes hold. But Texas deserves to be in the conversation about No. 1.

For part of the night, Mack Brown's team wasn't even certain it would finish No. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. Ohio State played that inspired and had a defense that was that good.

But McCoy once again demonstrated why the junior should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, engineering his 10th comeback victory in a star-studded career that earned him a 32nd win as starter. With a year to go.

He's Tim Tebow without the publicity blitz by national networks.

McCoy set Fiesta Bowl records with 41 completions and 59 attempts, and he needed every one of them, given the small amount of real estate the Ohio State defense allowed on the ground.

Texas somehow parsed together 72 yards rushing; it didn't appear to be that many. With the running game broken, the Longhorns fixed themselves up by relying on their no-huddle offense and five-wide formation for 26 of their 87 plays. McCoy completed passes on 18 of those 26 plays for 224 yards, many to Jordan Shipley and Brandon Collins and one on a very important fourth-and-3 play to James Kirkendoll for a critical first down.

At the end, McCoy found his receiving partner Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap a 78-yard scoring drive and overcome a late Buckeye rally.

Atypical of the classy 26-year-old wideout, Cosby ran unimpeded for the last 20 yards and drew an excessive celebration penalty by diving into the end zone with 16 seconds to play.

Given the dramatic finish, one of the best in school history, he was completely justified. The NCAA should seriously review that arbitrary rule, too. Just whom exactly was Cosby taunting on the play?

Once Texas batted down an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass by the Buckeyes, the Longhorns began a more acceptable celebration of an electrifying 12-1 season that will be remembered as much for what could have been as what was.

What was was pretty darn special.

"Texas is an outstanding football team," said Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel.

So is Ohio State, in truth. Hey, it certainly didn't embarrass itself. That's major progress for a beleaguered Big Ten program beset by humiliating losses in the past two BCS title games. The Buckeyes played inspired football without Beanie Wells in the second half and with a freshman quarterback learning on the run.

The Longhorns defense hung tough and relied mostly on a nickel defense to stop an Ohio State offense that made great use of its version of the Q package. Theirs showed results. Terrelle Pryor ran for 78 yards and caught a touchdown pass from senior backup Todd Boeckman.

McCoy will enter next fall as a Heisman favorite, but Pryor won't be far behind and could win one of the trophies himself before his career ends.

"Colt never thinks he's going to lose," Brown said. "His career kind of started against Ohio State (in 2006). He's got another year left to break the rest of the records. That last drive was a Heisman-type drive."

Texas came within a single tantalizing second against Texas Tech of matching Utah's perfect season and finishing 13-0. Even so, the Longhorns more than proved themselves by beating four Top 25 teams, two bowl winners (Missouri and Rice) and a top-ranked Oklahoma team back in the Stone Age.

The Horns should have set the table to start the 2009 season as they still hope to finish this one: atop the rankings. Mack said he'll vote his team No. 1, even though BCS rules require voting coaches to give the BCS title game victor the top spot.

Cosby and Brian Orakpo will be gone in 2009, along with defensive MVP Roy Miller and five other defensive starters from a unit that mostly kept Ohio State at bay, holding the Buckeyes to three field goals until two touchdowns in the final seven-plus minutes.

But McCoy will be back. And so will his favorite target, Shipley, along with four offensive line starters and more receivers than any secondary should have to cover.

"I don't think anybody in the country can beat us at this point," said an exhausted McCoy. The Buckeyes came at McCoy all night, pressured him, roughed him up and hit him late, but he got back up and did what he's done his entire career.

"I want to be in on the last drive to win a championship," McCoy said. "It easily shows the character of this team."

When Ohio State took the lead and left Texas fewer than two minutes to change the outcome, McCoy completed 7 of 10 passes to win the bowl game.

As befitting the best player in the country on — arguably — the best team in the country.

I still got the recording of the 2000 champinchip game between Oklahoma and Florida State. What I see in that game from Oklahoma is tackling. Defense is what wins championchips.

If any Chokelahoma fans thank that Sam Bradford will return next season than Bob Stoops truly deserves his 3million dollar bonus. Matt Leinart stayed one more season and it cost him 10 places in in the draft and almost 30 million dollars. Sam is gone and so is BCS choking Sooners. Sam would be a truly dumb Chokelahoma Sooner and the biggest choker on the national stage if he stayed one more year. He doen't have anything to prove except win a BCS game which he is 0-2. Not every one can be a winner like the Gators or Texas Longhorns. I thought the Texas Aggies were dumb but the Chokelahoma Sooners take the cake giving Bob Stoops 3 million dollars as a bonus prior to losing the BCS NC.
Texas has look of a champion
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Texas won the football game Monday night.

And probably nothing else, unfortunately.

For one thrilling evening in Arizona's desert, that would be enough.

The Longhorns put the wraps on one of the most exhilarating and satisfying seasons ever as Heisman runner-up Colt McCoy directed the nation's third-ranked team to a late touchdown and a 24-21 victory over 10th-ranked Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

Any shot at a split national championship, though, may have gone awry without a convincing win over a co-champion from a league that too few respect.

In all likelihood, the Florida-Oklahoma winner in Thursday's BCS title game will take home the big prize unless unbeaten Utah's longshot campaign takes hold. But Texas deserves to be in the conversation about No. 1.

For part of the night, Mack Brown's team wasn't even certain it would finish No. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. Ohio State played that inspired and had a defense that was that good.

But McCoy once again demonstrated why the junior should have been the Heisman Trophy winner, engineering his 10th comeback victory in a star-studded career that earned him a 32nd win as starter. With a year to go.

He's Tim Tebow without the publicity blitz by national networks.

McCoy set Fiesta Bowl records with 41 completions and 59 attempts, and he needed every one of them, given the small amount of real estate the Ohio State defense allowed on the ground.

Texas somehow parsed together 72 yards rushing; it didn't appear to be that many. With the running game broken, the Longhorns fixed themselves up by relying on their no-huddle offense and five-wide formation for 26 of their 87 plays. McCoy completed passes on 18 of those 26 plays for 224 yards, many to Jordan Shipley and Brandon Collins and one on a very important fourth-and-3 play to James Kirkendoll for a critical first down.

At the end, McCoy found his receiving partner Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap a 78-yard scoring drive and overcome a late Buckeye rally.

Atypical of the classy 26-year-old wideout, Cosby ran unimpeded for the last 20 yards and drew an excessive celebration penalty by diving into the end zone with 16 seconds to play.

Given the dramatic finish, one of the best in school history, he was completely justified. The NCAA should seriously review that arbitrary rule, too. Just whom exactly was Cosby taunting on the play?

Once Texas batted down an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass by the Buckeyes, the Longhorns began a more acceptable celebration of an electrifying 12-1 season that will be remembered as much for what could have been as what was.

What was was pretty darn special.

"Texas is an outstanding football team," said Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel.

So is Ohio State, in truth. Hey, it certainly didn't embarrass itself. That's major progress for a beleaguered Big Ten program beset by humiliating losses in the past two BCS title games. The Buckeyes played inspired football without Beanie Wells in the second half and with a freshman quarterback learning on the run.

The Longhorns defense hung tough and relied mostly on a nickel defense to stop an Ohio State offense that made great use of its version of the Q package. Theirs showed results. Terrelle Pryor ran for 78 yards and caught a touchdown pass from senior backup Todd Boeckman.

McCoy will enter next fall as a Heisman favorite, but Pryor won't be far behind and could win one of the trophies himself before his career ends.

"Colt never thinks he's going to lose," Brown said. "His career kind of started against Ohio State (in 2006). He's got another year left to break the rest of the records. That last drive was a Heisman-type drive."

Texas came within a single tantalizing second against Texas Tech of matching Utah's perfect season and finishing 13-0. Even so, the Longhorns more than proved themselves by beating four Top 25 teams, two bowl winners (Missouri and Rice) and a top-ranked Oklahoma team back in the Stone Age.

The Horns should have set the table to start the 2009 season as they still hope to finish this one: atop the rankings. Mack said he'll vote his team No. 1, even though BCS rules require voting coaches to give the BCS title game victor the top spot.

Cosby and Brian Orakpo will be gone in 2009, along with defensive MVP Roy Miller and five other defensive starters from a unit that mostly kept Ohio State at bay, holding the Buckeyes to three field goals until two touchdowns in the final seven-plus minutes.

But McCoy will be back. And so will his favorite target, Shipley, along with four offensive line starters and more receivers than any secondary should have to cover.

"I don't think anybody in the country can beat us at this point," said an exhausted McCoy. The Buckeyes came at McCoy all night, pressured him, roughed him up and hit him late, but he got back up and did what he's done his entire career.

"I want to be in on the last drive to win a championship," McCoy said. "It easily shows the character of this team."

When Ohio State took the lead and left Texas fewer than two minutes to change the outcome, McCoy completed 7 of 10 passes to win the bowl game.

As befitting the best player in the country on — arguably — the best team in the country.

Right Dana, the same conference that has Washington, Washington State, Stanford, UCLA, all powerhouse teams. I remember when USC was beat by a Mid-Major team in the Freedom Bowl. Does Fresno State ring a bell? Look at the teams head to head in both the Big 12 and the Pac-10 and see how they rated this year. No contest. I gree the Pac-10 has some talent, but come on to say it is a better conference? Based on what? If we played Washington, Washington State, Stanford, and UCLA each year would that make us a better team? PLEASE! The Beavers, you lost to that powerhouse this year. I think I would try to come up with something than the Pac-10 is a better conference as a justifcation as to why my team is better. That just does not cut it.

Is trojansrule Kidding? Lets see, what do Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal have in common? They all beat the mighty trojans. Oh and don'tt forget about unranked Fresno State, who just let the #1 trojans off the hook a couple of years ago. Enough of that, as a lifelong Sooners fan having my family from OK, we`bleed Sooner Football, sure I am dissapointed in the outcome of the game. But I would rather be playing for a National Title, than not. There are not many teams out there that can claim to be champions, or have played in as many title games as the Sooners. Ihear soo many teams claiming to be champions each year, but only two actually play for that title, and for the last ten years OU has done it more than any other team out there.
So be proud, we have a team and a coach who will be close if not in it next year and for years to come. How dissapointing for OU fans to have a hometown paper who belittles the team after a loss, I'm sorry and don't get that. Joe in austin, I would rather have a coach who is a BCS joke than a coach who can't even be a part of the joke because he has rarely or never been there.
Thanks Coach Stoops and Sooners for a season that I will not soon forget. Boomer Sooners!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember the Texans...next year we'll clean up your mess. Just like we did after USC embarrassed you. As a matter of fact I can't remember the last time we lost a bowl game. It's a good feeling to have a winning coach and a winning program one that counts when the chips are down. We will continue beating you head to head you can keep your little trophies, we will continue piling the victories. "Hot air is only hot air"... Oklahoma is full of it!

Defense came to play, but the offense just did not execute in the red zone. Those things plus the Florida defense are what did OU in. Oh well. As a Swedish tennis great named Stefan Edberg used to say after losing a big grand slam match, "I had my chonces." OU certainly had it's chonces.

Mark from Clovis, USC plays in a better conference. OU has to get "up" for a big game each year. USC plays a big game every week. The Big 8 used to be a non-parity joke. The SWC made it even worse.

Is trojansrule Kidding? Lets see, what do Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal have in common? They all beat the mighty trojans. Oh and don'tt forget about unranked Fresno State, who just let the #1 trojans off the hook a couple of years ago. Enough of that, as a lifelong Sooners fan having my family from OK, we`bleed Sooner Football, sure I am dissapointed in the outcome of the game. But I would rather be playing for a National Title, than not. There are not many teams out there that can claim to be champions, or have played in as many title games as the Sooners. Ihear soo many teams claiming to be champions each year, but only two actually play for that title, and for the last ten years OU has done it more than any other team out there.
So be proud, we have a team and a coach who will be close if not in it next year and for years to come. How dissapointing for OU fans to have a hometown paper who belittles the team after a loss, I'm sorry and don't get that. Joe in austin, I would rather have a coach who is a BCS joke than a coach who can't even be a part of the joke because he has rarely or never been there.
Thanks Coach Stoops and Sooners for a season that I will not soon forget. Boomer Sooners!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve, I know about USC and the national media. It's different here in the west where there's this certain comradeship. For instance, I hate Oregon all season long, until it's bowl season and they're playing someone who's supposed to clean their clock because they're "only" from the Pac 10. I do respect the USC program and history, and their yearly game against Notre Dame has no rival when it comes to pomp and tradition.

As I've said in past years, OU is nothing more than the Great Pretender. So many victories against so so teams in the Big 12 and weak non-conference opponents for the most part. Heck, they can't even beat Texas in the last few years, except for 2007. This program simply cannot play with the big boys anymore. Sure, they can beat a TCU and Cincinnati every now and then, but those are not big name powerful football schools. And forget about next year. It will be challenging with losing most of the offensive linemen and receivers and playing BYU in Dallas, at Miami, Tulsa and the Big 12(oops scratch that competition in the Big 12, except for Texas). And Texas is really going to be waiting to put the hurt on OU for taking their spot in the NC game. And what is Bradford goes to the NFL? Not likely, but if he did, OU would be in a world of hurt. God, it's painful to be a Sooner football fan right now!

Is trojansrule Kidding? Lets see, what do Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal have in common? They all beat the mighty trojans. Oh and don'tt forget about unranked Fresno State, who just let the #1 trojans off the hook a couple of years ago. Enough of that, as a lifelong Sooners fan having my family from OK, we`bleed Sooner Football, sure I am dissapointed in the outcome of the game. But I would rather be playing for a National Title, than not. There are not many teams out there that can claim to be champions, or have played in as many title games as the Sooners. Ihear soo many teams claiming to be champions each year, but only two actually play for that title, and for the last ten years OU has done it more than any other team out there.
So be proud, we have a team and a coach who will be close if not in it next year and for years to come. How dissapointing for OU fans to have a hometown paper who belittles the team after a loss, I'm sorry and don't get that. Joe in austin, I would rather have a coach who is a BCS joke than a coach who can't even be a part of the joke because he has rarely or never been there.
Thanks Coach Stoops and Sooners for a season that I will not soon forget. Boomer Sooners!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate to dwell on USC, but Melvin, if OU had a sweet deal that allowed them to play a Big Ten team at home every year, they would be undefeted in BCS games. (yes, I know it is really UCLA's home stadium) and that 7 - 1 record, the 1 is complements of a Big 12 team.

Is trojansrule Kidding? Lets see, what do Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal have in common? They all beat the mighty trojans. Oh and don'tt forget about unranked Fresno State, who just let the #1 trojans off the hook a couple of years ago. Enough of that, as a lifelong Sooners fan having my family from OK, we`bleed Sooner Football, sure I am dissapointed in the outcome of the game. But I would rather be playing for a National Title, than not. There are not many teams out there that can claim to be champions, or have played in as many title games as the Sooners. Ihear soo many teams claiming to be champions each year, but only two actually play for that title, and for the last ten years OU has done it more than any other team out there.
So be proud, we have a team and a coach who will be close if not in it next year and for years to come. How dissapointing for OU fans to have a hometown paper who belittles the team after a loss, I'm sorry and don't get that. Joe in austin, I would rather have a coach who is a BCS joke than a coach who can't even be a part of the joke because he has rarely or never been there.
Thanks Coach Stoops and Sooners for a season that I will not soon forget. Boomer Sooners!!!!!!!!!!!

Dana,
Your points are well stated, but you have to realize that most of the country's dislike of USC stems from the national media's unbearable love-affair with anything USC and a coach that rivals Mack Brown when it comes to whining and arrogance.

Out coached again! 3 million really!

OU had every chance to win that game last night. We just suck in bowl games and the fans have to accept that. I am not sure how many future BSC wins could ever erase losing five straight and three straight championships. This is a blight on the record of a great program.

Eric, don't let the USC fan disillusion you. USC is one of the proudest and classiest football programs in America. They are very "old school", the program itself is kind of a throwback. They don very simple uniforms without names, they play in a Greek style coliseum. Next time you see a USC game, look at the cheerleaders, (it's hard not to!) even they wear the old style 1960's, high school style garb. There are thirty million people in southern California. Almost that many are just regular people.

Florida was simply a better team. "Big" game bob has become a BCS joke.

"Always the bride's maid, never the bride". I still love my Sooners and always will - Sooner born, Sooner bred, etc.

Its ok ou fans, because ou is still be in the big 12. Hey, maybe stoops can schedule nebraska, missouri, and texas a&m for non-conference games. You could have a warm-up against iowa state, or a maybe a rematch against ut-chattanooga. Anything to boost the stats for the offense of the century! Maybe they can even create a new bowl, just for ou. We will play it in norman so ou will not have to worry about a neutral field. We will call it the sooner bowl, and ou can play cincinnati, so they won't have to worry about choking!!!

Randy, I think that Utah deserved the #1 AP spot, however... while last nights game disappointed you Sooner fans, it was not a disappointing game. Both teams played very well, and I think OU might have had something to say to the pundits who always dump on Big 12 defenses. While Big 12 defenses as a whole may be suspect, as illustrated by OU's run of hyper-high scoring games, and the fact that Florida held them to fourteen points, OU's own defense looked very good, especially against the triple option. Sure, run that offense and you'll get your yards, but as a whole OU's defense did well against a very potent offense. The difference in the game, in my humble opinion: Florida was convinced they could win, and Oklahoma wasn't.

Just remember fans, when the ever so humble SEC fans start that silly SEC chant, chant right back at them-Mountain West, Mountain West! Quite frankly the Utes could of easily beat Texas the way they manhandled Alabama and I'm not so sure either Florida or OU could of played them as horrible as both of those teams played last night. Although I'm Big 12 all the way and always will be, after watching all the various bowl games Utah still had the best team show up. They proved they should be number 1.

when you get turnovers you get points .....stoopsis a good coach but after getting stuffed on 3rd down he should have made it 10-7 ....then the bradford interception wouldnt sting so bad....he could have said "look we havent played our best and we are up 10-7 '...who knows what would have happend in the second half,,,,now mcoys interception would not have been in vain get SOMETHING off of turnovers,,,,,to melvin lets not talk about the usc people good characters they are led by the killer oj simpson, crack head charlie white ect.... the C in USC does not stand for character,,,anyway still a sooner fan may have to wait another 3 years to get back there,,(N C GAME)

I don't know how many ways there are to say, "Oklahoma you Sux." But this forum seems to have covered most of them.

Bwahahaha! I was sending bad juju toward the gooners and hoped they'd play as badly as the dunder did the night before, and they didn't let me down. Sooner or later you OU losers are going to have to face facts that "Big 12" ain't the biggest and baddest out there....consider yourselves the JV squad compared to the varsity team/conferences....

After reading the comments, it is plain to see the real loooosssseeerrrsss are the comment writers. Just because the team or teams you root for will never get to the big game, the only enjoyment that you get out of life is to bash OU, because they have won more games than all of your teams put together. It is better to dance and stumble, than to never have danced at all. It make one wonder how many of you Small Minds, can find the floor in the morning, when you get out of bed. Yes I am a Sooner fan, & always will be. Go Sooners!!

yep you guys have beat us thats great! We still keep on winning the big 12 and going to the BCS championship. I say lets give you guys the win now, then we can laugh when tech or a@m or maybe even baylor beats you later on!

Stoops does not care about a loss. Why would he?

$2.775 million salary +
$150,000 for the loss against UF
$3 million for reaching his 10th year at OU
$80,000 for winning the Big 12 title
$30,000 for being named the conference's coach of the year
$75,000 bonus for a top-10 finish in the BCS

HEY STOOPERS,
THE CHOKE CHAIN IS IN THE MAIL!!!!!!

Tramel...you've confirmed you're an idiot with this column? Have you ever even played sports at any competitive level? I particularly like..."Bradford's poor decision in the final 10 seconds of the first half let the Gators get to halftime tied 7-7 and set them up for second-half momentum. Bradford threw to Manny Johnson on a slant from the 6-yard line.

Not good. Even if Johnson had caught the ball, he might not have scored, particularly the way the Florida defensive backs bird-dogged OU receivers, and time would have run out, since the Sooners had burned all their clock stoppages." Watch the play again barry...Sam had three receiver options two to the left one right. Bradford looked left had a man with half a step (had no time due to pressure on the outside to go through his reads or he would have seen an open iglesias on the right) and threw the ball right on the money. If the receiver does not get in the end zone we have six seconds to spike the ball and get one more chance for points. Your pathetic tramel...playing arm chair quarterback and saying sam made a bad decision...what an idiot. The bad decision was in the play call itself...calling a play in which receivers do not run routes into the end zone is the poor decision...not releasing gresham into a mis-match on an undersized linebacker was the bad decision...DEFINITELY NOT SAM BRADFORD.

Tramel...you've confirmed you're an idiot with this column? Have you ever even played sports at any competitive level? I particularly like..."Bradford's poor decision in the final 10 seconds of the first half let the Gators get to halftime tied 7-7 and set them up for second-half momentum. Bradford threw to Manny Johnson on a slant from the 6-yard line.

Not good. Even if Johnson had caught the ball, he might not have scored, particularly the way the Florida defensive backs bird-dogged OU receivers, and time would have run out, since the Sooners had burned all their clock stoppages." Watch the play again barry...Sam had three receiver options two to the left one right. Bradford looked left had a man with half a step (had no time due to pressure on the outside to go through his reads or he would have seen an open iglesias on the right) and threw the ball right on the money. If the receiver does not get in the end zone we have six seconds to spike the ball and get one more chance for points. Your pathetic tramel...playing arm chair quarterback and saying sam made a bad decision...what an idiot. The bad decision was in the play call itself...calling a play in which receivers do not run routes into the end zone is the poor decision...not releasing gresham into a mis-match on an undersized linebacker was the bad decision...DEFINITELY NOT SAM BRADFORD.

Brian, please put your type in bold, it will make it seem a little LOUDER. Josh, make sure you spit shine your butt in early October so that we don't get our boots dirty when we kick it again! By the way if you like numbers so much I have a few for you - 58 and 40. That's TX vs ou wins. Bob Stoops is on the fast track to becoming Mack's little Big 12 cabana boy.

Owasso Brian, I'm surprised you can even spell education. There is a difference between typos and poor grammar/spelling. I am not going to do you the favor of correcting every one of your mistakes. I don't have all night. If you want to walk down the path of enlightenment I suggest you copy and paste your prior posts into MS Word and then count all the red, squiggly lines that appear. Something tells me you are not even qualified to park my car.

Yep that big red asterick says Sooners are the Big 12 Champs!

The Oklahoma Sooners played admirably against the gators. The plays that hurt Oklahoma were the trips inside red zone and they come away with no points twice in the 1st half and when they got turnovers from Florida they could not turn those into points either. I am still proud of what the Sooners accomplished this year.

Josh, That is the first time I have ever heard the word "class" in the same sentence as OU, unless of course it also has the words "football players" and "skipping." By the way, there is a big, huge red asterisk next to the Big 12 trophy this year.

Jeff, OU has lost more big bowl games than you guys have even been to. When you guys catch us in championships conference and national then you can bragg. Until then Boomer Sooner!

Don't hate on USC REMEMBER 55-19...LOL
So if we are weak, than what does that make OU since your players were begging the Trojans to just run the ball so that they would not run off the score. Don't hate on my squad, and coach with 2 national championships, 3 heisman winners, 7-1 in BCS bowl games and 17-1 versus the top 15. Conversely your coach, 2-6 in BCS bowl games and no major winsoutside of Norman since 2000. LOL FIGNT ON USC AND GO THUNDER

Jeff Plano-Im guessing your a sore longhorn fan, you guys choked against tech. Just deal with it.

JEFF PLANO; I AM MORE EDUCATED THAN YOU MORE THAN LIKELY. i HAVE AN ARM IN A SLING RIGHT NOW DUE TO A SHOULDER SURGERY. HOW STUPID ARE YOU TO THINK TYPEING SKILLS INDICATE EDUCATION. GOT ANYMORE BRILLANT FACTS TO SHARE ????

Owasso Brian - I'm guessing that with your spelling and grammar acumen that you were the valedictorian of your class at OU. Folks, this is a perfect example of what happens when a university (or is it a community college?) puts all its money into a football program instead of the classroom.

Sooners 6 times big 12 champs! texas 2? We are the class of the big 12.

Owasso Brian - I'm guessing that with your spelling and grammar acumen that you were the valedictorian of your class at OU. Folks, this is a perfect example of what happens when a university (or is it a community college?) puts all its money into a football program instead of the classroom.

alright, I DON'T like OU football --- BUT who played in the BCS Championship game last night?

Florida AND OU ....nuff said

woo hoo longhorns are number 4! Come on Mack you need to whine some more.

Melvin in OKC - smoked in bowl games? You mean like Oregon did to OSU?

Congrats to The Gators. Sad for OU again!

Congrats to The Gators. Sad for OU again!

LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POSSERS ARE FACED WITH FACTS THEY SHUT UP !!! JUST LIKE THE TALKING HEAD MEDIA. THEY WANT TO TALK CRAP UNTIL SOMEONE STARTS TALKING FACT THEN THEY GO BACK TO IMAGINERY WORLD AND DREAM UP MORE CRAP. TRUE OU FANS DO NOT HAVE TO RESORT TO CRAP BECAUSE THE FACTS SPEAK ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. GOOD COMMENT JOSH SHAWNEE MORE FACTS.

Congrats to OU, Florida, Texas, and USC on a great year! These four schools in the past several years have dominated college football!

Anybody know where the sooner fans can recycle all their Big Game Bob yard gnomes and blow-up dolls? Also, the homeless shelter in Guacamoleville wants to know when they can expect their annual shipment of "Oklahoma BCS Champs" t-shirts & caps. If you could throw in a few "little boomer" g-strings I'm sure they would be thrilled.

Brian: on a less inflammatory note (!), this ranking site (Massey) is pretty interesting:

http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm

AS AN OU FAN THE ONLY TEAM THAT CAN BRAG IS FLORIDA. THEY HAVE WON TWO OF THREE BCS NCG. CONGRATS TO THEM. THERE IS ONLY ONE OKLAHOMA !!! OU, G O !!!!!!! S O O N E R S !!!!!!!!

What team has been ranked number the most weeks? Sooners! What team has been ranked in top five the most ever? Sooners! You wanna bes are jealous! Boomer Sooner

USC IS THE BIGGEST POSSER RIGHT BEHIND OHIO STATE. THE PAC 10 IS A JOKE. THE ONLY CONFERENCE WERSE IS THE BIG 10. USC WISHES THEY HAD CLOSE TO THE TRADITION OKLAHOMA HAS. WHICH TEAM HAS THE BEST RECORD SINCE WW 2 ? WHICH TEAM HAS BEEN TO THE NCG 4 TIMES IN NINE YEARS. WHICH TEAM HAS MORE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS IN THE PAST 9 YEARS. UNTIL YOU CAN TOP THAT YOUR WORDS MEAN NOTHING BUT ENVY FOR THE BEST PROGRAM IN THE NATION . AGAIN !!!! CONGRATS SOONERS FOR A GREAT SEASON. KEEP THE TRADITION GOING CHAMPIONSHIPS WILL COME BECAUSE OU IS THE BEST. G O !!!!!!! S O O N E R S !!!!!!!!

Melvin USC is choked against Oregon State.

Why do OU haters come in and post crap? Because they are the losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great season Sooners and staff!

Hey Brian from Awasso:
read:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2009/01/09/rankings-the-conferences-the-sec-is-king-once-again/ , (by Jon Wilner, San Jose Mercury News)

USC? they lost to oregon state! At least OU lost to a ranked team.

if anything utah should be pissed off the most they beat alabama by 14 and florida only beat them by 11 and what about usc and the last time I checked texas soundly beat oklahoma anyway you slice it. So in my opinion neither team should have been there.

Playoffs!

Chokelahoma Sooners are like you average neighborhood punks, they beat up on inferior competion, but the moment that they meet equal competition they fold like sissys. The only two teams that OU played with equal talent, FU and TU they lost by double digits. Texas should have represented the Big 12 in the title game, at least I have respect for their program as a Trojan fan. Oh yea, can your Heisman quaterbacks show up in BCS games. I think that the coaches forgot to tell Sam that the game started at 7:15.
WHAT DOES MARIJUANA AND SOONERS HAVE IN COMMON? THEY BOTH GET SMOKED IN BOWLS... or HOW DO YOU CONFUSE BOB STOOPS? PUT HIM IN A BOWL GAME...

PLAYOFF !!!!! FORGET CONFERENCE CG. START A PLAYOFF THE WEEK AFTER THANKSGIVING. LETS SEE HOW THE SEC, PAC 10, & BIG TEN DO WHEN THEY HAVE TO PREPARE FOR A GOOD TEAM WEEK AFTER WEEK AND DON'T HAVE A MONTH TO PREPARE. G O !!!!!!! S O O N E R S !!!!!!!!

I agree with Jennifer from Norman. You homers should be ashamed. Congratulations to the team and the coaching staff for a great 2008. I like the comment that one of the Fox announcers said, and that was that Stoops had led the team to four National Championship games in nine years. How many other teams can say that??? You got to be a fan win or lose. Boomer!

COOTER+MELVIN+WAYNE=HATER!!!!!! Bob Stoops has done an incredible job at OU. Before he came, after Barry left, it was horrible. we were either average or just plain BAD! Bob wins 11 or 12 games every year with just 2 exceptions in 10 years. You win some and you lose some. He's 4-6 in bowls. Sorry but thats better than Coach Blake. It'll get better. He'll win atleast 1 more national title before he's done which is amazing. Plus all the BIG12 titles he'll get for us! I wonder if Bowden, Paterno, Philip Fulmer, Bill Calahan, most NFL head coaches, etc. would like to trade places with Bob and staff. Personally, i'd like the SOONERS as players to just play better in the big games. If you really watched the game, they (the sooners) were in position to be successful. Thats what coaches are paid to do, teach and put the players in position to be successful. Players have to execute, period!!!!! That loss goes on the players, not COACH STOOPS! Anyway, this was a great season. I enjoyed watchin Bradford, Murray, Gresham and co. all season. The defense has been better but we were young with new faces. Thats understandable. You played great last night and gave us a chance. All in all, i give this season an A-, only because we didnt "finish" that was a players' quote! And I do hope all the sophmores and juniors decide to comeback also. Next year could be the breakthrough!!! For all you haters, get a real squad and stop neck-talkin the SOONERS!!! We get sick of dealin' with you clowns. Coach Stoops will lead us back to the "big one" and SOONER than later he'll get R dunn! GREAT SEASON SOONERS. With the right ingredients we'll be BCS bound again in 09!

HERE IS A CHALLENGE FOR THE SEC. THE BIG 12 AND SEC SHOULD SCHEDULE THE SAME WEEK OF THE YEAR A CONFERENCE CHALLANGE, MATCH 1-12 FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE A MONTH TO PREPARE. WATCH THE SEC TEAMS CRAB CRAWL ON THIS.
G O ! S O O N E R S !!!!!!!!!!!

go blunder

Playoffs!

you always got the Blunder to watch

Sooners just can't play with the big boys....

I'm appalled at the number of fair-weather Sooners. Yes OU lost, as did many other teams who played Florida this season, but they did make it into the championships. I am proud of Stoops and his team for their fantastic season and can't wait to see what next year holds.

Oh, and for those who maintain that Texas should have been in the championships, a quick reminder, they lost to Texas Tech.

I just love it ---reading all the what if's and coulda/shoulda/woulda's from u Big 12 fans. Seems like whenever Big 12 or Big 10 teams play the SEC in 'make 'em count' games- u guys get your hat handed to you year after year after year. See what happens to "the most prolific offense in years" when they face a REAL defense!!!! NO CONTEST ---and by the way , Tebow showed (and so did Bradford) wear the Heisman REALLY belongs!!!

Listened to Bob Stoops post game press conference last night. What a classy, classy guy. Great season. Championship season. Heisman season.

BOOMER SOONER!!!

Negative article. I do not understand tremals negative approach to OU almost all the time he finds the negative. Considering where everyone seem to think OU was they played a very good game and yes they did not capatalize on some opportunities but they played good enough to beat florida expect for a few plays. everyone including tremal where not giving OU a chance to win. They not only had the chance but should have beat florida. why I think Mack brown is a cry baby. Follow and except the rules. first, he does not like the tie breaking rules. don't loose to TT. Next, he wants to vote tx number 1 breaking the rules again. I think the big 12 should vote tx out. One thing the sec does is stick together. the big 12 does not do that in large part due to tx and osu. the two biggest cry babies outside of the big ten and pac 10. AGAIN THANKS SOONERS FOR A GREAT SEASON. GO SOONERS

I'm a Sooner Born and a Sooner Bred
and when I die, I'll be a Sooner Dead

BOOMER SOONER!!

Maybe six chokes will be enough for OU fans to admit they suck. BOOMER LOSER!!

I just love it ---reading all the what if's and coulda/shoulda/woulda's from u Big 12 fans. Seems like whenever Big 12 or Big 10 teams play the SEC in 'make 'em count' games- u guys get your hat handed to you year after year after year. See what happens to "the most prolific offense in years" when they face a REAL defense!!!! NO CONTEST ---and by the way , Tebow showed (and so did Bradford) wear the Heisman REALLY belongs!!!

Maybe six chokes will be enough for OU fans to admit they suck. BOOMER LOSER!!

Jeff from Plano - your shorthorns weren't exactly impressive against that poor excuse for a top 10 team in Ohio. Worst yet, OSU sucked it up against the mighty ducks and Tech choked against Miss. All in all, it doesn't bode well for our conference period.

Utah #1, until we let the supreme court install Bush and now everything is all screwed up, including how we rate the #1 team in the country.

As Louis stated on another article, I would rather get to the National Championship and win some or lose some than to never get there at all. We played good, but not great. A few bad calls more than likely took away at least 7 points. We had missed opportunities as well. Those that get on here and dog OU just hate it that we are football powerhouse, and that's WHY they get on here and do that. I for one, don't plan to get on here and respond to those types. They all need a good hobby. BOOMER SOONER!

SEC proved to be better than the Big 12. Utah destroyed 1 of the best teams in the SEC and went undefeated. They are the true National Champs!

Playoffs!

Jeff from Plano - your shorthorns weren't exactly impressive against that poor excuse for a top 10 team in Ohio. Worst yet, OSU sucked it up against the mighty ducks and Tech choked against Miss. All in all, it doesn't bode well for our conference period.

SEC proved to be better than the Big 12. Utah destroyed 1 of the best teams in the SEC and went undefeated. They are the true National Champs!

POOOOOOORRRRRRRR SOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRSSSSS!

lOUsers!

Did any of you graduate from UO? If so, why do people call The University of Oklahoma OU? Should it not be UO? I'm asking only the graduates from the University of Oklahoma.

Did any of you graduate from UO? If so, why do people call The University of Oklahoma OU? Should it not be UO? I'm asking only the graduates from the University of Oklahoma.

I have been living in OKC for 10 years since moving from California. Every year I have to hear about how great the Chokelahoma Sooner program and the Boomer loser tradition is. But after another choke job I want all you sooner fans to shut up until you can bring home some hardware besides big 12 titles. Pete continues to win Pac 10 titles and BCS bowl games. Until you can do that shut your mouth and accept that your coach and team is average in a weak conferance. FIGHT ON USC

Ou has won more big 12 titles, been to the BCS game more in the last nine years than anyone else. Dont forget Sooners how BAD we were in the 90s. The cooters and aggies of the world will never see the inside of the BSC Game for their teams. Before the BCS, Barry lost his share of big games to other when it counted...Arkansas, Miami...Cant ever win them all. We will win more be sure of it, cause we will get there more!

Ethan, not too many full backs in the NFL...Tight end is best bet.

It is easy to throw darts when we lose, but last night came down to three plays where FU played better and kept OU from scoring. three plays....game over.

See you all on top again next year regardless. OU will be in the mix BOOMER SOONER!!!

The Horns do not fold in the fourth quarter. Maybe losing by 10 on a neutral field is not so bad after all. The Sooners did it twice this year. And I may add to superior teams too.

Tim Tebow will make a good fullback in the NFL.

I am a Sooner fan, regardless of their performance last night. I was so glad when the "Tim Tebow Show" was over with! The Fox announcers were very biased in their comments and opinions. They did fail to praise Tebow on one of his accomplishments, how beautifully he threw two interceptions. I do not appreciate Tebow's "Passion", as it was referred to .... I would consider him an arrogant bafoon. Why was Tebow's humanitarian accomplishments filmed? Oh that's right, it was a campaign for the Heisman ..... sorry, it didn't help! Congratulations to all the Sooners who entertained us throughout the year, we appreciate your efforts!! BOOMER SOONER!

Well, some of this just has to do with Big 12 Vs. SEC. It's like a style versus another style. We had to go to spread offense to keep up with team like Texas Tech. If we had not, then they would have outscored us or anybody else in the Big 12. To prevent that, you have to out score them, and the spread offense has proven to do just that. Now with teams that don't use the spread, SEC, they use other tools such as a powerful QB/Running back/option player and SPEED. There has got to be a happy medium. Remember when the wishbone came out and it couldn't be stopped until the other teams got some speed? I don't know what kind of offense you'd need to beat out an SEC style team without going to the SEC scheme. But, if you do that, you won't make it to a championship because you won't win your conference title that with the BCS, is exactly how you would get there? The only thing I can thing of is build up one hell of a defense. You have to admit, we've been slacking in that department. Maybe we need to recruit more speed than size.

Congratulations to the team and coaching staff no matter what. Just being in four BCS championship games in 9 years is simply amazing. Congratulation to the players, coaches and the school.

Mike from Corpus Christi: Your post, the T Roosevelt quote, is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. People, myself included at times, need to reflect on TR's words before posting caustic comments. And, Joe from Dallas, you make some great points, i.e. the salary isssues for coaches and assistants etc. As for last evening's game with no disrespect intended toward either team, I just think the result provided further evidence of the need for a playoff. I do admire you dedicated Sooner fans who are not "front runners" and stick with your team through the difficult times/games.

Mike from Corpus Christi: Your post, the T Roosevelt quote, is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. People, myself included at times, need to reflect on TR's words before posting caustic comments. And, Joe from Dallas, you make some great points, i.e. the salary isssues for coaches and assistants etc. As for last evening's game with no disrespect intended toward either team, I just think the result provided further evidence of the need for a playoff. I do admire you dedicated Sooner fans who are not "front runners" and stick with your team through the difficult times/games.

Congratulations to the team and coaching staff no matter what. Just being in four BCS championship games in 9 years is simply amazing. Congratulation to the players, coaches and the school.

Mike from Corpus Christi: Your post, the T Roosevelt quote, is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. People, myself included at times, need to reflect on TR's words before posting caustic comments. And, Joe from Dallas, you make some great points, i.e. the salary isssues for coaches and assistants etc. As for last evening's game with no disrespect intended toward either team, I just think the result provided further evidence of the need for a playoff. I do admire you dedicated Sooner fans who are not "front runners" and stick with your team through the difficult times/games.

I would rather be standing where we are now, having played in the game but losing rather than not being in the game at all. While I hate the 5 consective BCS loses, I wouldn't trade the last 5 winning seasons! While I think Tebow is an outstanding athletic, I was very sick of listening to his praise all evening long. There are numerous student athletics who lead exemplary lives off the field.

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

Y'all leave Bob alone.

It takes a perfect storm to get to national title games and win. Not luck, but breaks. Some teams make their own breaks while others wait for them to happen. You can choke in front of a national audience trying to make a break, like Mark Bradley scooping up a punt on the 2 yard line surrounded by Trojans, or Sam Bradford zipping a pass into coverage hitting his receiver in the hands just before the enemy takes it away. Or you could get stuffed at the one yard line trying to run three straight ground plays rather than risk an interception against Florida IN Florida.

You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Maybe we should fire Stoops and hire Tyronne Willingham or Charlie Weiss!

Oh! How about Bill Calahan? He coached the Raiders, you know!

Bob's going to shut the mouths of his empty-headed critics some day and I will be there to hear all of these non-entities who've achieved nothing in their lives except a desktop PC on which to spew their cave-shackled wisdom argue how another national title is not enough when he's lost three others.

Don't listen to us, Bob! We're all fickle, spoiled and uninformed!

What's more, our caves smell like B.O. because we never leave them.

We are afraid of the light in which you've chosen to live.

"Due to the surprising results, we're going to have to reevaluate our entire advertising campaign", says Joe Castiglione, University of Oklahoma Athletic Director. "Historically our strategy has been to target wealthy, educated professionals in an attempt to increase season ticket holder revenue which carries higher profit-margins. Now we see a more targeted economic class approach being appropriate, focusing on the low-income, uneducated fan base." What does that mean for the fans in Norman? "We'll have to explore more non-traditional ad spaces, says Castiglione. We've started a pilot program in two separate trailer parks in the OKC metro area in an attempt to increase the Sooner brand awareness there, passing out OU car flags and lawn signs to residents. We've also purchased ad space in several gentlemen's clubs." These tactics may seem extreme and even bizarre, but this could be just the tip of the iceberg according to Castiglione, "We've just begun to explore innovative advertising for the low-income, low-education demographic. We're currently in discussions the Oklahoma State Prison system about providing free televised OU football games, as well as plasma TVs in exchange for exclusive broadcasting rights within the State's prison system." It's hard to say if the campaign will be successful according to Brenner, "We commissioned the study to help schools generate athletic revenue through improved marketing. How they choose to implement ad campaigns is up to them. Though I can't imagine the prisoner fan-base is the way to go. I wouldn't want to be known as the official school of the state penitentiary".

think people will be surprised that either all or most of the OU players won't go pro. If I had the burning desire to redeem myself I wouldn't go now. It just depends on how much these players want to redeem themselves. I think Sam probably feels strong about that especially since McCoy, Tebow , and most big name guys are probably coming back. McCoy because he was slighted and Tebow because of his arrogance of me, me, me.

Five straight moral victories. Should be proud of that. Boomer Sooner

By the way Waterford is going out of business, so there will be no more crystal footballs. Next year trophy will be wood, plastic, or rubber football ( More befitting of the BCS anyway )

William, I agree with you on a few points you make. I think OU gets too conservative in the big games as well. OU took way too much time running plays leading up to the first goal-line stand Florida pulled off when OU could've and should've gone up by 7 points. It's always easy to second guess, but man I wish we would have run a play-fake and tossed the ball to someone in the endzone. Oh well, at least OU wins a lot of games if not the big ones lately. OU will again someday and Bob Stoops will be the coach when it happens. KEEP COACH STOOPS and thanks to all the seniors and other players for providing a wonderful season for all of Sooner Nation...even Cooter.

William, I agree with you on a few points you make. I think OU gets too conservative in the big games as well. OU took way too much time running plays leading up to the first goal-line stand Florida pulled off when OU could've and should've gone up by 7 points. It's always easy to second guess, but man I wish we would have run a play-fake and tossed the ball to someone in the endzone. Oh well, at least OU wins a lot of games if not the big ones lately. OU will again someday and Bob Stoops will be the coach when it happens. KEEP COACH STOOPS and thanks to all the seniors and other players for providing a wonderful season for all of Sooner Nation...even Cooter.

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

Gotta love the OSU fans heckling OU fans when they couldn't even beat the Ducks!!! OU dominated the first half and didn't score. Florida dominated the second half and DID score. That's what the whole game boils down to. Great game by TWO great teams!
And OSU fans, win a BIG 12 Championship, play in a BCS bowl......THEN TALK!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sick of OU losing the big games. However, saying that, it takes a good team and good program to continually get to the big game. OU played well last night but not good enough to beat a very good Florida team. If someone had told me that the OU defense would only give up 24 points and make life miserable for Tebow most of the game I would have thought great. The OU offense should be able to score half as many points has they had been averaging over the last five games. WRONG!!! The offense was out of sync all night with a few exceptions. And even these exceptions could have allowed OU to win the game IF they would have scored inside the red zone as they had all year. Poor and conservative play calling cost the Sooners heavily. It might be that the offensive coordinator thought the coverage was too good for the normal OU pass game or that Bradford was not himself last night. Whatever the reason four runs from the six yard line is ridiculous. What happened to the play action pass? Second guessing is not right but what the hell. I will always be an OU fan and support the team and coach Stoops. At least the Sooners made it a game for three and a half quarters. GO SOONERS!!!

Why don't you all F.O. OU bashers!!!! I don't see your teams playing consistent enough to be in BCS games year after year!!!

Gotta love the OSU fans heckling OU fans when they couldn't even beat the Ducks!!! OU dominated the first half and didn't score. Florida dominated the second half and DID score. That's what the whole game boils down to. Great game by TWO great teams!
And OSU fans, win a BIG 12 Championship, play in a BCS bowl......THEN TALK!!!!!!!!!!!

Stoops is an excellent coach. The only problem I have is that for what he is compensated, he is expected to deliver bowl victories and another national title. He knows 'defense wins championships', that is what won in 2000. So why did he endorse a Mike Leach-TTech style hurry-up offense at the expense of a weaker defense. It is time to go back to basics, fire Venables, bring in another defensive coordinator (like Texas did) and take some of Stoops salary to try and keep your best assistant coaches (with better pay) from leaving every other year. Heupel will probably be next to leave. Build a Defense, 60-point games are meaningless going into championship football. The goal should be giving up less than 14 pts/ game.

Venables BCS bowl resume since Mike Stoops left:

2004 55
2006 43
2007 48
2008 24

Average points given up 42.5. This year was an improvement, but, they still gave up nearly 500 yards. This is a far cry from the 2000 team that shut out a high-octane FSU team. Come on Bob, build a real Defense. It is time for Venables to go.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

Hey, at least we made it to CHAMPIONSHIP BOWL--not just any bowl. How many teams would like to play in that game? I am proud of my team and glad we got to play in that special game.

Cooter is NOT funny. He is a poor sould with absolutely no life.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

Stoops is an excellent coach. The only problem I have is that for what he is compensated, he is expected to deliver bowl victories and another national title. He knows 'defense wins championships', that is what won in 2000. So why did he endorse a Mike Leach-TTech style hurry-up offense at the expense of a weaker defense. It is time to go back to basics, fire Venables, bring in another defensive coordinator (like Texas did) and take some of Stoops salary to try and keep your best assistant coaches (with better pay) from leaving every other year. Heupel will probably be next to leave. Build a Defense, 60-point games are meaningless going into championship football. The goal should be giving up less than 14 pts/ game.

Venables BCS bowl resume since Mike Stoops left:

2004 55
2006 43
2007 48
2008 24

Average points given up 42.5. This year was an improvement, but, they still gave up nearly 500 yards. This is a far cry from the 2000 team that shut out a high-octane FSU team. Come on Bob, build a real Defense. It is time for Venables to go.

Cooter, I must admit that's funny. Heads up OU fans. It's just a game. BOOMER SOONER!!!

Those BCS computers failed us again. Lousy game from two over-rated teams. Texas-USC would've been the game to see. We need some playoffs.

Tommy, Orlando: I think its funny how every year the team that loses the NC game, all of sudden everyone says they shouldn't have even been there....that some other team should've been there. Apparently OU SHOULD'VE been there because they WERE THERE! Sorry that your team WASN'T THERE!!
Good game....ball didn't bounce our way when we needed it. I also think this was not a good officiated game....IMO several plays should've been reviewed....clock problems....bad camera angles to review FL 1st touchdown.
BOOMER SOONER!

Hey, at least we made it to CHAMPIONSHIP BOWL--not just any bowl. How many teams would like to play in that game? I am proud of my team and glad we got to play in that special game.

Those BCS computers failed us again. Lousy game from two over-rated teams. Texas-USC would've been the game to see. We need some playoffs.

BOOMER LOOSER, BOOMER LOOSER, GOONER BOOMER, GOONER BOOMER, CHOKELAHOMA, JOKELAHOMA, LOST A BOWL GAME, HA HA HAAAAAAAAA!!!

I saw the game and thought OU played well. They simply were beaten by a better team. It was obvious OU was bothered by a team with athletes as fast, if not faster, than their own. I've been an OU fan since the 1950s and see no reason to get upset. The last few years OU has not played to their potential in BCS bowl games, but last night they did. Hats off to a fine Florida team.

They should start a post season game in Norman. Then ou could have a home game and call it the Charmin tissue toilet bowl. Na ou would just be flushed out again.

They should start a post season game in Norman. Then ou could have a home game and call it the Charmin tissue toilet bowl. Na ou would just be flushed out again.

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

This just confirms that "BOOMER SOONER" sounds like something a baby does in its diapers. Add a new score 24-14 to that 45-35 pounding from the Longhorns.

This just confirms that "BOOMER SOONER" sounds like something a baby does in its diapers. Add a new score 24-14 to that 45-35 pounding from the Longhorns.

Regarding that USA Today story, You might know that the post is BS, but others may not. Bogus email forwards and stories should not be continued on. The same stupid thing has been used on several other teams. I not an OU fan either but you don't need to add that garbage today. The reality of their situation is enough. By the way, it always amazed me that whoever made it up would give an AP writer a USA Today email.

It's comforting to see the whorn and aggie fans are still obsessed with OUr program. Their continual negative comments acknowledges their assessment that OU is on a higher level. OU Football! Always a top 5 program! Thank you coaches and players for another great year! With the countless All Americans, Conference Championships, players aplenty in the NFL and 7 National Titles to boot, it's obvious that 115 other programs would give their left * to be in your shoes.

I'll say it again...you can't spell SOUP without OU!. Now go away OU you're now with the Ohio State's and Penn State's of the world...you're not wanted anymore.
Hey OU.....NO SOUP FOR YOU!

I saw the game and thought OU played well. They simply were beaten by a better team. It was obvious OU was bothered by a team with athletes as fast, if not faster, than their own. I've been an OU fan since the 1950s and see no reason to get upset. The last few years OU has not played to their potential in BCS bowl games, but last night they did. Hats off to a fine Florida team.

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

Buffalo Bill Bob...get it? Gets there but can't finish the deal just like the Buffalo Bills in four straight Super Bowls. However, I will say that he wasn't the guy running the football, or blocking, or kicking, or...

Bobby -Holdenville, OU won't lose that many players. They will lose their top two WRs, four linemen. On offense that will be about it. Greshem won't leave early, and the backup linemen will do just fine. Bradford will be back.

OMG Mat, that is the best thing I've ever read. That explains sooooo much. I always thought OU fans as just obnoxious, but it turns out they're just.....um, dumb.

LG in Yukon: We don't need your comments either. But it is a free country. We can say whatever we want. Truth hurt?

Texas isn't exactly burning it up these days. Really? Seems to me they won their bowl game. A bowl game that Oklahoma has lost the past two years. OU just surplanted Ohio State as the all time biggest chokers of the BCS era. Texas has won 3 BCS games since OU won their one. Typical OU homers.

I saw the game and thought OU played well. They simply were beaten by a better team. It was obvious OU was bothered by a team with athletes as fast, if not faster, than their own. I've been an OU fan since the 1950s and see no reason to get upset. The last few years OU has not played to their potential in BCS bowl games, but last night they did. Hats off to a fine Florida team.

And I have to break this fine piece back out:

From the USA Today

Jump on The Bandwagon; Literally: Sooner Fans Among Least Educated

Norman, OK – A new study released last month by the Sports Statistics Foundation, a research and statistical think-tank based in Dallas, Texas, shows that Sooner fans are among the least educated in the nation, and dead last in the Big 12.

The study was commissioned by the Big 12 last year to assist the sports marketing department. "We thought the information would be valuable in determining where to place our TV, radio, and print advertisements", said Bill Brenner, Big 12 Executive Director, "but we never expected these results."

The study looked at the percentage of each school's fans that have a college education. Only 4.7% of sports fans identifying themselves with The University of Oklahoma had completed a college degree, lowest among the Big 12 teams. OU ranked in the lower 5th percentile nationally. Additionally OU ranked 3rd in the nation in number of high school dropouts claiming allegiance to the school as a percentage of the total fan base.

The survey results were both good and bad for the State of Oklahoma. Oddly enough the study showed the Oklahoma State University had some of the most educated fans. According to Brenner this wasn't so surprising, "OSU is known nationally and internationally for several programs that are consistently recognized for their quality. It's not all about cows and corn there in Stillwater."

OU fans, get ready. Change is on the way. "Due to the surprising results, we're going to have to reevaluate our entire advertising campaign", says Joe Castiglione, University of Oklahoma Athletic Director. "Historically our strategy has been to target wealthy, educated professionals in an attempt to increase season ticket holder revenue which carries higher profit-margins. Now we see a more targeted economic class approach being appropriate, focusing on the low-income, uneducated fan base."

What does that mean for the fans in Norman? "We'll have to explore more non-traditional ad spaces, says Castiglione. We've started a pilot program in two separate trailer parks in the OKC metro area in an attempt to increase the Sooner brand awareness there, passing out OU car flags and lawn signs to residents. We've also purchased ad space in several gentlemen's clubs."

These tactics may seem extreme and even bizarre, but this could be just the tip of the iceberg according to Castiglione, "We've just begun to explore innovative advertising for the low-income, low-education demographic. We're currently in discussions the Oklahoma State Prison system about providing free televised OU football games, as well as plasma TVs in exchange for exclusive broadcasting rights within the State's prison system."

It's hard to say if the campaign will be successful according to Brenner, "We commissioned the study to help schools generate athletic revenue through improved marketing. How they choose to implement ad campaigns is up to them. Though I can't imagine the prisoner fan-base is the way to go. I wouldn't want to be known as the official school of the state penitentiary".

All this angst has been fun but I have to leave you poor sooners now. Before I go I have just have one little task for you... be sure to spit shine your butts in early October so that we don't get our boots dirty when we kick it again! Giddy-up!

OU is still the best team in the country. Am I right? Says all the bandwagon jumpers anyway. Goodness, I love the taste of tears and bitter disappointment on everyone's faces around the office today. They all almost look like Stoops with about 2 minutes left in the game. Got beat by better team plain and simple.

All this angst has been fun but I have to leave you poor sooners now. Before I go I have just have one little task for you... be sure to spit shine your butts in early October so that we don't get our boots dirty when we kick it again! Giddy-up!

I saw the game and thought OU played well. They simply were beaten by a better team. It was obvious OU was bothered by a team with athletes as fast, if not faster, than their own. I've been an OU fan since the 1950s and see no reason to get upset. The last few years OU has not played to their potential in BCS bowl games, but last night they did. Hats off to a fine Florida team.

I think the loss was along the lines of what goes around comes around. OU consistently runs up the score to earn BCS "style points". Nobody likes a poor winner. For me the highlight of the night was Tebow doing to Gator Chomp in the face of an OU player a couple of plays after the OU player took a cheap shot at Percy Havrin. I guess payback can be a b@#$h. CHOKLAMONA!!! Big Game Who?

Jeff, You are just plain "RUDE", Why don't you grow up! What, you feel so badly about yourself and your team that you have to put down other people? You must have what they call "little man's syndrome" you have to put down others to make yourself feel good! GROW UP!!! I normally won't let myself go down to this level, but this is just ridiculous. There is plenty that anyone could say to put down Texas, they aren't exactly burning it up these days either!

Look on the bright side of things Sooner actually didn't get blown out of the game like you did against USC there is something for Stoops to build on for next season.HOOK 'EM HORNS we should have played for the national championship

Look on the bright side of things Sooner actually didn't get blown out of the game like you did against USC there is something for Stoops to build on for next season.HOOK 'EM HORNS we should have played for the national championship

Look on the bright side of things Sooner actually didn't get blown out of the game like you did against USC there is something for Stoops to build on for next season.HOOK 'EM HORNS we should have played for the national championship

Jeff, Plano - PLEASE go somewhere up there in ritzy Plano and buy yourself a life

Fire Stoops! Another season down the damn drain!

Fire Stoops! Another season down the damn drain!

Fire Stoops! Another season down the damn drain!

ten year sorry.

Well said Daniel. I see some people on here post 10 or 12 times. Get a job please or a life!

Well said Daniel. I see some people on here post 10 or 12 times. Get a job please or a life!

Did you all see the headline about the gas leak in Stillwater? Apparently Norman International Airport was closed (all the air traffic controllers were apparently in mourning) and the pilot of the Sooner's charter plane had to land there. Coincidence? I think not. Sooners can't go anywhere without stinking the place up.

45-35. See ya next year in Dallas gooners. Oh BTW, Congratulations Florida.

Seems to me the 2 week or longer layoff from the Big 12 championship hurts OU more than most teams. I think that really is more the problem with the Big 12 teams including Texas. If you keep playing the bowl games week after week you would see a much different outcome in most of the bowl games. Give any team a lot of time to prepare you and the game will be close or you stand a better chance to lose. A playoff incorporated into the season would benefit not just OU, but all the perennial powers such as Texas, Alabama, etc.

This message is to actual Sooner fans:

Please come to the realization that 95% of the people posting on here are immature teenagers, welfare using slums of society, or middleage men that still live with their moms. They aren't Sooner fans, they are simply trying to get a rise out of you. Every time you post something to the tune of "i can't believe you would say that" or "You are so ignorant." etc etc, you are doing exactly what they want! Quit giving them what they want and these losers will stop posting! BOOMER SOONER!

Seems to me the 2 week or longer layoff from the Big 12 championship hurts OU more than most teams. I think that really is more the problem with the Big 12 teams including Texas. If you keep playing the bowl games week after week you would see a much different outcome in most of the bowl games. Give any team a lot of time to prepare you and the game will be close or you stand a better chance to lose. A playoff incorporated into the season would benefit not just OU, but all the perennial powers such as Texas, Alabama, etc.

I think OU's problem in bowl games comes down to the fact they have too much time to prepare and instead of just playing the game, they out smart or out think themselves. The no huddle they ran last night wasn't really a true no huddle in my opinion. It had been earlier this season.

This message is to actual Sooner fans:

Please come to the realization that 95% of the people posting on here are immature teenagers, welfare using slums of society, or middleage men that still live with their moms. They aren't Sooner fans, they are simply trying to get a rise out of you. Every time you post something to the tune of "i can't believe you would say that" or "You are so ignorant." etc etc, you are doing exactly what they want! Quit giving them what they want and these losers will stop posting! BOOMER SOONER!

Lisa, there are Walmarts here too but you don't see bridal registries in them like you do in Norman.

I think OU's problem in bowl games comes down to the fact they have too much time to prepare and instead of just playing the game, they out smart or out think themselves. The no huddle they ran last night wasn't really a true no huddle in my opinion. It had been earlier this season.

I just love the fact that OU is perpetually stuck in the past. So oblivious to what's happened since 2000. Is Texas so awesome that you all have to be constantly concerned with what's going on down there. Do you know how often a person from Texas thinks about Oklahoma? NEVER!!! I suggest you find a hobby. Take up painting, learn to play the piano, volunteer for a charity. Please, something, anything to get your psychotic minds off of OU.

Lisa, there are Walmarts here too but you don't see bridal registries in them like you do in Norman.

We are 1000 percent... The Thunder...The Cowboys...The Sooners....
Oklahoma really sucks right now...

B, Shorthorns? That is a good one. Did they teach you that one at the 101 Longhorn put-downs during freshman orientation? Y'all ought to make a t-shirt with that little quotation. Clever bunch up there in Norman. As for OSU, Terrel Pryor would have run all over OU. Hey may well single handedly pull the Big 10 out of the gutter. Maybe you'll get a chance to see him against your Sooners in the Meineke Bowl next season. You should be thankful for a non-BCS bowl game too for reasons that don't need to be mentioned.

This message is to actual Sooner fans:

Please come to the realization that 95% of the people posting on here are immature teenagers, welfare using slums of society, or middleage men that still live with their moms. They aren't Sooner fans, they are simply trying to get a rise out of you. Every time you post something to the tune of "i can't believe you would say that" or "You are so ignorant." etc etc, you are doing exactly what they want! Quit giving them what they want and these losers will stop posting! BOOMER SOONER!

The University of Oklahoma....clothing the third world with bcs bowl title shirts since 2004.

Jeff in Plano, What does Mack Brown have, 2 conference championships (one at NC and one at TX) in 21 years? Go eat what you've been shoveling out of Bevo's stall.

Jeff, in Plano, there are Wal Marts there too, sweetie....but if that's the best you got to say about OU and OK...kinda lame.

Jeff from Plano - your shorthorns weren't exactly impressive against that poor excuse for a top 10 team in Ohio. Worst yet, OSU sucked it up against the mighty ducks and Tech choked against Miss. All in all, it doesn't bode well for our conference period.

Great season Sooners. Tip my cap to Florida, just kept our offense off the field with these long sustained drives. This game was a combination of not capatilizing on opportunities and getting some very bad breaks. Tempo of this game was horrific at times and really it turned it into a SEC type game. Nothing to be ashamed of and for all you weak "fans" that are piling on Stoops not being able to take his team to the next level; Ya'll wouldn't understand the game if it hit you like Bozworth. Bob and co. did everything they could with this team but the game dictated a loss, we're there climbing the ladder. His Bowl woes are circumstance and playing very good teams. Thanks Seniors! BOOMER!

Another January bowl, another loss for the Sooners. What else is new?

I cant believe the chokes from Stillwater are talking smack in here! When was the last time you guys went to a BCS bowl? And the sooners own you guys! Yeah Texas you guys beat us this year and have won more times against us. But how many big 12 championships have you guys won?? How many National Championships have you guys won? Texas has had our number as of late but you guys choke down the strecth too, (texas tech this year) A@m and Kansas a few years in a row. My last count Mack Brown only has one National Championship just like Stoops. Sooner fans dont let the smack talk get in your heads. We are a great program and will continue to be. Just because we have lost five BCS bowls doesnt mean things have went to crap. At least we are there playing for championships. We are the class of the Big 12 and until someone else wins 6 big 12 championships (3 in a row) then walk with your heads up high. SOONER!

I just love the fact that OU is perpetually stuck in the past. So oblivious to what's happened since 2000. Is Texas so awesome that you all have to be constantly concerned with what's going on down there. Do you know how often a person from Texas thinks about Oklahoma? NEVER!!! I suggest you find a hobby. Take up painting, learn to play the piano, volunteer for a charity. Please, something, anything to get your psychotic minds off of OU.

Great season Sooners. Tip my cap to Florida, just kept our offense off the field with these long sustained drives. This game was a combination of not capatilizing on opportunities and getting some very bad breaks. Tempo of this game was horrific at times and really it turned it into a SEC type game. Nothing to be ashamed of and for all you weak "fans" that are piling on Stoops not being able to take his team to the next level; Ya'll wouldn't understand the game if it hit you like Bozworth. Bob and co. did everything they could with this team but the game dictated a loss, we're there climbing the ladder. His Bowl woes are circumstance and playing very good teams. Thanks Seniors! BOOMER!

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

LOL!!!! No comebacks so all that is left are 3rd grade put downs! I love it! You are a broken, destitute bunch of clowns! Hook Em!!!

Jeff from Plano - your shorthorns weren't exactly impressive against that poor excuse for a top 10 team in Ohio. Worst yet, OSU sucked it up against the mighty ducks and Tech choked against Miss. All in all, it doesn't bode well for our conference period.

LOL!!!! No comebacks so all that is left are 3rd grade put downs! I love it! You are a broken, destitute bunch of clowns! Hook Em!!!

ten year sorry.

If you are an OU fan, Great game, the difference came down to three plays. two goal line stands and a forth down stop....Make those, its the other way. Their defense was better than ours for three plays. OU ran on the (GREATEST SEC DEFENSE WITH ALL THAT SPEED OOOOOOOOHHHH) passed on the them too. OU defense held up the great florida machine too. Great job on the kicking game. That is how a championship game is played. Some one is going to lose. Regardless. 4 x's to the big dance, got 1 in 9 years. NO ONE ELSE can say they have been there that many times. Barry got his over a ren plus year span and did not have guys going pro as soph or jr.s; Did not have the limits on scholorships etc. Different days folks. We are a great team and will continue under Bob Stoops. I wish it had been three plays our way...but BOOMER SOONER

LOL!!!! No comebacks so all that is left are 3rd grade put downs! I love it! You are a broken, destitute bunch of clowns! Hook Em!!!

WOW!!! What a bunch of "fair weather fans"! I am discussed to even be associated with a bunch of people that call themselves "fans" at when the team loses they jump off the schooner so quickly. Its great to support them when they are winning, but if you are a true fan you have to support them losing too! Do any of you remember the years between Barry and Bob? Not a pretty sight was it? You are all spoiled and can't accept losing! Shame on you! There are 119 teams that play NCAA Football and only 2 get to play for the National Championship every year. I'm sure the 119th ranked teams fans would love to have been in our position even if they did lose! Would you rather not play for the National Championship or be one of the 2 teams that get to play for it and lose. You would all be calling for Bob to be fired if we were the worst team in the country too! That can only mean that you would rather us be mediocre like 9 and 3 or worse and go to a lesser bowl game, right? Instead of being in the top ten and playing in a BCS bowl against tougher competion and losing! The Big 12 has only been around for what 12 years and we have 6! The coaching staff has 2 Heisman Trophy winners and should have more! Oh, and 4 National Championship games in 9 seasons isn't half bad even though we only won 1! Someone has to lose, someone has to win. They played a really good game. Noone even expected them to be as close as they were, so lets give them credit for that! I personally think the coaching staff is GREAT!!! I would rather be in the position we are in now instead of where we were before Bob came to OU!!! As far as all you people that are fans of other teams that want to put them down and call names, lets not forget that your teams have done the very same things at one point or another and have whined and made excuses too! Its what people do when they are passionate about something! That doesn't give you the right to bad mouth fans, athletes, or the coaches. I have plenty that I could say about your teams and won't because I'm not a poor sport!

Great season Sooners. Tip my cap to Florida, just kept our offense off the field with these long sustained drives. This game was a combination of not capatilizing on opportunities and getting some very bad breaks. Tempo of this game was horrific at times and really it turned it into a SEC type game. Nothing to be ashamed of and for all you weak "fans" that are piling on Stoops not being able to take his team to the next level; Ya'll wouldn't understand the game if it hit you like Bozworth. Bob and co. did everything they could with this team but the game dictated a loss, we're there climbing the ladder. His Bowl woes are circumstance and playing very good teams. Thanks Seniors! BOOMER!

jeff from plano is a fag

Mikey - You like numbers? Here's some numbers for you.... 58 - 40. That's TX vs ou all time. You can sit there in your walmart red and white bean bag chair all day and quote numbers, but those Heisman trophies aren't much consolation at this point are they? But hey, you have fun with your Big Game Bob blow up doll this off-season and get ready for another Big D beat down come October.

OU did a great job and being in the National Champiionship alone is a statement of fact that they are a great team with a good coach. Perfect? nope, are there any?

jeff from plano is a fag

jeff from plano is a fag

The "Trail of Tears" leads through Chokelahoma...their is nothing wrong with the Big 12, just Looser Nation. Next time you get invited to a BCS bowl game please do us all a favor in the Big 12 and turn it down. Tell them that your going to Africa to start your own football league. Pathetic little people of Oklahoma give credit when your rears have been handed to you...give credit, where credit is due.

Mikey - You like numbers? Here's some numbers for you.... 58 - 40. That's TX vs ou all time. You can sit there in your walmart red and white bean bag chair all day and quote numbers, but those Heisman trophies aren't much consolation at this point are they? But hey, you have fun with your Big Game Bob blow up doll this off-season and get ready for another Big D beat down come October.

Big Game Boob......what a joke. Read the article.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/ksherrington/stories/010909dnsposherrington.a59455.html

I don't think the Sonner fans in the stands were totally there mentally. They needs more excitement to show the guys they were behind them all the way.
And yea, that first touch down, I don't think that should have counted. There should be a 5 second rule or something. That was bull. And the announcers weren't the least bit for OU, mostly about the Gators.

WOW!!! What a bunch of "fair weather fans"! I am discussed to even be associated with a bunch of people that call themselves "fans" at when the team loses they jump off the schooner so quickly. Its great to support them when they are winning, but if you are a true fan you have to support them losing too! Do any of you remember the years between Barry and Bob? Not a pretty sight was it? You are all spoiled and can't accept losing! Shame on you! There are 119 teams that play NCAA Football and only 2 get to play for the National Championship every year. I'm sure the 119th ranked teams fans would love to have been in our position even if they did lose! Would you rather not play for the National Championship or be one of the 2 teams that get to play for it and lose. You would all be calling for Bob to be fired if we were the worst team in the country too! That can only mean that you would rather us be mediocre like 9 and 3 or worse and go to a lesser bowl game, right? Instead of being in the top ten and playing in a BCS bowl against tougher competion and losing! The Big 12 has only been around for what 12 years and we have 6! The coaching staff has 2 Heisman Trophy winners and should have more! Oh, and 4 National Championship games in 9 seasons isn't half bad even though we only won 1! Someone has to lose, someone has to win. They played a really good game. Noone even expected them to be as close as they were, so lets give them credit for that! I personally think the coaching staff is GREAT!!! I would rather be in the position we are in now instead of where we were before Bob came to OU!!! As far as all you people that are fans of other teams that want to put them down and call names, lets not forget that your teams have done the very same things at one point or another and have whined and made excuses too! Its what people do when they are passionate about something! That doesn't give you the right to bad mouth fans, athletes, or the coaches. I have plenty that I could say about your teams and won't because I'm not a poor sport!

I thought you OU fans would be different after this one. I thought you might actually show some class in the loss. Boy was I completely wrong. I've seen the same bulls*$t on these boards that I've seen in past years. Blaming the refs, saying Tebow was taunting, blaming this, blaming that. You all are completely oblivious to anything outside of OU football. OU GOT BEAT, PERIOD! Deal with it. The Sooner players showed no class by talking trash the ENTIRE game. The Nic Harris incident you speak so highly of. HE WAS THE ONE WHO STARTED IT. He was jawing the entire game. Tebow put an exclamation point in his a$$. The tackle on Harvin late in the game where he jerked his legs up in the air should've been a personal foul. Stoops cried and whined and bitched through the entire game. I guess the fans are only as classy as the team they follow.

david from richardson is a fag

"Fix the problems, Bob." Well, Michael we've been saying that for FIVE EFFING YEARS! I love being the Atlanta Braves, the Buffalo Bills and the Ohio State Buckeyes all rolled in to one! It's awesome!!

david from richardson is a fag

WOW Monica......I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for posting that, you were spot on.

Mikey - You like numbers? Here's some numbers for you.... 58 - 40. That's TX vs ou all time. You can sit there in your walmart red and white bean bag chair all day and quote numbers, but those Heisman trophies aren't much consolation at this point are they? But hey, you have fun with your Big Game Bob blow up doll this off-season and get ready for another Big D beat down come October.

Everyone needs to just take Tebow's tip out of their mouthes. He was not all that impressive against an average defense. That defense held him down most of the game. Keep giving tebow rim jobs...at least your name is appropriate "soonersuck"

VOTE:
STOOPS: LEAVE or STAY?
SAM B: LEAVE or STAY?

The Big 12 needs better defense (so the offense learns how to play better against it). OU plays against crappy defenses year after year (with the exception of Texas) and then they face a better defense in their bowl games. No wonder they score less. I AM happy though that even though OU lost, they showed up to play and didn't lay an egg.

Nice observation Ed. Did you watch any other games this year besides this one? That is how the offense worked for the entire year. They would go to the line, check out the defensive set and then then the offensive coordinator would relay the plays to Bradford through the sideline.

Its all fine and great you guys keep bringing up the big 12 chamionships, but IMO You are an embarassment to the big 12 when every time you get there since 2000 you choke. OU should have won that game last night. There is no excuse to why, twice, they could not score on goal line situations. Running to the pylon obviously is not going to work against a speedy Florida D. Between the tackles and ou leaves with the crystal ball. Blame the coaches, thats the problem. Bad play calling inside the red zone.

Everyone needs to just take Tebow's tip out of their mouthes. He was not all that impressive against an average defense. That defense held him down most of the game. Keep giving tebow rim jobs...at least your name is appropriate "soonersuck"

Everyone needs to just take Tebow's tip out of their mouthes. He was not all that impressive against an average defense. That defense held him down most of the game. Keep giving tebow rim jobs...at least your name is appropriate "soonersuck"

Nice observation Ed. Did you watch any other games this year besides this one? That is how the offense worked for the entire year. They would go to the line, check out the defensive set and then then the offensive coordinator would relay the plays to Bradford through the sideline.

Everyone needs to just take Tebow's tip out of their mouthes. He was not all that impressive against an average defense. That defense held him down most of the game. Keep giving tebow rim jobs...at least your name is appropriate "soonersuck"

"Fix the problems, Bob." Well, Michael we've been saying that for FIVE EFFING YEARS! I love being the Atlanta Braves, the Buffalo Bills and the Ohio State Buckeyes all rolled in to one! It's awesome!!

Absolutely great game. I'm a die-hard Sooner fan, and I totally enjoyed the game. Both teams played well, and I think they left the game with a respect for each other. Of course, I wish the Sooners had been the ones with the momentum shift in the 4th quarter, but hey, I can't take anything away from how Florida played...GO SOONERS!!!!

The difference in this game was simple - play making. Florida did, OU did not. Let's review - on the one yard line - held, no points. On the six yard line - interception, no points. On the 7 yard line - holding penalty (bring it back), no points. Driving at the Florida 45 - interception, no points. Field goal attempt - blocked, no points. We all agree that if we knew going into the game that OU would hold Florida to 24 points we would bet the house OU wins. Of the scenerios listed above let's just say half are successful - that's at least 10 points and more likely 14. If OU does not throw the pick in the fourth quarter and goes on to score OU takes the lead and keeps the ball from Florida for the clinching touchdown. Bottom line - the O did not do it's job - not even half of what they needed to do. We did not need a perfect performance - just score on half of the other opportunities. I know, I know, "if ifs and buts were candy and nuts OU would have 12 national championships." Biggest loser in the game - Kevin Wilson. Biggest winner - the GD east coast media.

WOW!!! What a bunch of "fair weather fans"! I am discussed to even be associated with a bunch of people that call themselves "fans" at when the team loses they jump off the schooner so quickly. Its great to support them when they are winning, but if you are a true fan you have to support them losing too! Do any of you remember the years between Barry and Bob? Not a pretty sight was it? You are all spoiled and can't accept losing! Shame on you! There are 119 teams that play NCAA Football and only 2 get to play for the National Championship every year. I'm sure the 119th ranked teams fans would love to have been in our position even if they did lose! Would you rather not play for the National Championship or be one of the 2 teams that get to play for it and lose. You would all be calling for Bob to be fired if we were the worst team in the country too! That can only mean that you would rather us be mediocre like 9 and 3 or worse and go to a lesser bowl game, right? Instead of being in the top ten and playing in a BCS bowl against tougher competion and losing! The Big 12 has only been around for what 12 years and we have 6! The coaching staff has 2 Heisman Trophy winners and should have more! Oh, and 4 National Championship games in 9 seasons isn't half bad even though we only won 1! Someone has to lose, someone has to win. They played a really good game. Noone even expected them to be as close as they were, so lets give them credit for that! I personally think the coaching staff is GREAT!!! I would rather be in the position we are in now instead of where we were before Bob came to OU!!! As far as all you people that are fans of other teams that want to put them down and call names, lets not forget that your teams have done the very same things at one point or another and have whined and made excuses too! Its what people do when they are passionate about something! That doesn't give you the right to bad mouth fans, athletes, or the coaches. I have plenty that I could say about your teams and won't because I'm not a poor sport!

To Jeff in Plano & Kevin in Richardson: Texas did win the whining championship this year and they still have many less Big 12 Championships than OU does. How about National Championships? OU -7 UT 4, and three of those were from an OU product Darrel Royal. How many heismans doese Texas have?

To all of the OSU fans who are critical of OU...the only way OSU will ever be in a BCS National Championship game is if they buy a ticket. Bob Stoops can stay at OU for as long as he wants.

Change is needed with the coaches, not Stoops but the coordinators. Let's get some fresh talented coaches. Wilson's play calling was horrible as it is in most big games. OU had the talent and speed to play and beat Florida and I think they proved that they should have played in that game. But poor play calling and offensive showing and not being able to utilize several key turnovers by Florida. They had things working and then changed it for some stupid reason.

If you were Sam B, would you leave early for the NFL Draft? I would be interested in your thoughts.

Jeff, like ya'll didn't do the EXACT same thing with your last game. Oh wait, just who in the hell started all this plane-banner flying stuff at the stadiums? A bunch of spoiled alum's. You can't seriously look me in the eye and say the Mack was not whinning is arshe off at the end. Get real.

The difference in this game was simple - play making. Florida did, OU did not. Let's review - on the one yard line - held, no points. On the six yard line - interception, no points. On the 7 yard line - holding penalty (bring it back), no points. Driving at the Florida 45 - interception, no points. Field goal attempt - blocked, no points. We all agree that if we knew going into the game that OU would hold Florida to 24 points we would bet the house OU wins. Of the scenerios listed above let's just say half are successful - that's at least 10 points and more likely 14. If OU does not throw the pick in the fourth quarter and goes on to score OU takes the lead and keeps the ball from Florida for the clinching touchdown. Bottom line - the O did not do it's job - not even half of what they needed to do. We did not need a perfect performance - just score on half of the other opportunities. I know, I know, "if ifs and buts were candy and nuts OU would have 12 national championships." Biggest loser in the game - Kevin Wilson. Biggest winner - the GD east coast media.

Tebow showed his true colors when he gave Nic Harris the "gator chomp" or whatever you want to call it. He loves the attention and thinks he is above everyone else. I have news for him. Sam Bradford is a true talent and has more heart and compassion than Tebow will ever have. I am, and always will be, a Sooner fan...BOOMER SOONER!!!!

The meeting of the Heisman! and the winner is? I wonder if OU players and fans still feel like Tebow is the fourth best quarterback!

What a beautiful day. Great weather for the long lines of sooner fans returning their bowl shirts and hats back to wal mart.
I dont know whats worse in this state, having to listen to all the annoying OU fans when they are winning, or having to listen to all the annoying OU fans when they lose.
Get over it. Stop blaming the coaches. Stop blaming the media. Stop blaming the athletes. Stop blaming the Texass fans.
You got your asses handed to you fair and square.
Learn some humility and have a big tall glass of shut the hell up.

I am surprised that the newspaper has such loyalty to Coach Stoops. There is no question that he has brought great success to OU in his 10 years. But is he capable of going to the next level, or for the Sooners sake, should he step aside? I guess that is a question that will be debated all during the off-season.

I disagree about the future patron saint of college football being top player last night - Percy Harvin was a killer last night. He had a high ankle sprain, right if that's the case he should be on the olympic team when he's healthy. I'm uncertain whether Bradford is ready for the pros - especially if the Lions are going to draft him.

I wonder how many heisman voters think they may have screwed up now!!! tim tebow was better all year there aint a stat for heart and no one has the heart he has

Hey Brock - your team got their arse handed to them by my Horns in Dallas. Running up the score on Baylor my earn you some BCS style points but when push comes to shove against a tough team like Texas or Florida, your Sooners fold like a cheap lawn chair. I hope Big Game Bob sticks around OU forever!

Congrats top the Gators, they wanted the game more and in the end they won it. Tebow played great and he was effective. Congrats to the OU team for a great season and for keeping Texas out of the BCS Championship. I am frustrated like the Ou coaches, players, and other fans on why this string of BCS Bowl losses keeps on going. Does anyone have any constructive views on why OU is losing these games? To Jeff in Plano, quit speaking from your anal opening, as what is coming out is an unpleasant product, (you know what I mean.)

Bob has got to be affected by these losses, and remember, there are 117 other teams including Texas that would have loved to be in the National Championship game last night. OU is still the king of the Big 12 and has six Big 12 Championships in the last nine years. Fix the problems Bob, and keep Texas out of theig 12 Championship and the National Championship game!

Yeah, but Kevin, when it comes to OSU, he's still Big Game Bob, if you want to go there. Why does everybody call us choke-ahoma? I don't get it, we didn't choke. We just played a better team, talent wise. If the players can't get it done on the field, what the hell are the coaches suppose to do about it? Sprinkle magic fairy dust or something? Those that think OU is so damn terrible, you sure put a lot of energy in trying to get you non-intelligent points across. It aches my heart that we lost last night, and I'm sure thousands of other OU fans are feeling the same way. BUT, we know we'll be back. We always have been and always will be. For those that dog our 5 BCS loses, oh well. Something that's not going to change and we'll have to live with it. Yeah, some of you will say, you got experience for that. Sure, bring it on or whatever. But, what do you say about our spirit and committment to the program? We are always in the hunt every year, and will continue to do so. It's what we're about.

OU SUX

Hey Brock - your team got their arse handed to them by my Horns in Dallas. Running up the score on Baylor my earn you some BCS style points but when push comes to shove against a tough team like Texas or Florida, your Sooners fold like a cheap lawn chair. I hope Big Game Bob sticks around OU forever!

That first touch down by Florida looked like a fluke! Stoops should have challenged it cause it looked like the player was dead on his butt before his hand accidently, fell over the line... It kinda let the air outta the sails.

I am surprised that the newspaper has such loyalty to Coach Stoops. There is no question that he has brought great success to OU in his 10 years. But is he capable of going to the next level, or for the Sooners sake, should he step aside? I guess that is a question that will be debated all during the off-season.

Let's face it - superior talent wins games. Florida Defense is at another level. Our D played well. I'm now convinced that the Big 12 is overrated. All in all another disappointing end to a another GREAT Season. No excuses.

Congrats top the Gators, they wanted the game more and in the end they won it. Tebow played great and he was effective. Congrats to the OU team for a great season and for keeping Texas out of the BCS Championship. I am frustrated like the Ou coaches, players, and other fans on why this string of BCS Bowl losses keeps on going. Does anyone have any constructive views on why OU is losing these games? To Jeff in Plano, quit speaking from your anal opening, as what is coming out is an unpleasant product, (you know what I mean.)

Bob has got to be affected by these losses, and remember, there are 117 other teams including Texas that would have loved to be in the National Championship game last night. OU is still the king of the Big 12 and has six Big 12 Championships in the last nine years. Fix the problems Bob, and keep Texas out of theig 12 Championship and the National Championship game!

Hey Brock - your team got their arse handed to them by my Horns in Dallas. Running up the score on Baylor my earn you some BCS style points but when push comes to shove against a tough team like Texas or Florida, your Sooners fold like a cheap lawn chair. I hope Big Game Bob sticks around OU forever!

With all the kids that got their legs hurt in last nites game, I'm just thankful that no one was seriously injured!

Hey Stoops, WTF? A hurry up no huddle offense and then make Bradford stand there like an idiot for 30 seconds while the coaches argue over what play to call. That only happened about 40 times. GFC! That was pathetic! The coaching staff performed like they had only 1 hour to prepare for the game instead of 5 weeks. Quite simply put, OU's coaches over-coached the entire game except for OU's first touchdown drive when, for whatever the reason, they didn't interfere with Bradford's performance. Stoops should never again be allowed to coach a big game. He completely forgets what it was that got him amd his team to the big game. Last night was sickening to watch. At least the defense performed admirably. Again, not to beat a dead horse, I'm convinced that Bradford & Co. could have done better without ANY coaches on the sidleine.

Come on people. After the first 12 games, there is no question as to who everyone thought would put up the most points against Florida. Had USC been in this game it very well could have had the same score. Texas? Come on seriously? They barely figured out a way to beat Ohio State. On this night, there were too many bad decisions made by Kevin Wilson, and not enough 2nd half energy on the defensive side. I don't think I heard Gerald McCoy's name called after halftime. I think for some reason OU made adjustments at halftime that did not need to be made. OU clearly had Florida on the ropes, and should have let them do the worrying and adjusting.

And by now I am sure we all know that Superman sleeps in Tim Tebow pajamas, and the boogey man looks for Tim Tebow under his bed and in his closet at night before he sleeps.

The meeting of the Heisman! and the winner is? I wonder if OU players and fans still feel like Tebow is the fourth best quarterback!

Great game and great season for OU. We played toe-to-toe with a great Florida team who was just a little better in the end. Back to work for yet another BCS run next year. Boomer Sooner!

Stoops is no longer "Big Game Bob" we should change it to "No Show for a Bowl Bob"

Wow, typical comments from a Trojan fan. No wonder the named a condom after them.

Stoops is no longer "Big Game Bob" we should change it to "No Show for a Bowl Bob"

It's comforting to see the whorn and aggie fans are still obsessed with OUr program. Their continual negative comments acknowledges their assessment that OU is on a higher level. OU Football! Always a top 5 program! Thank you coaches and players for another great year! With the countless All Americans, Conference Championships, players aplenty in the NFL and 7 National Titles to boot, it's obvious that 120 other programs would give their left * to be in your shoes.

Couldn't agree more. It seems that over the past few years the offensive coordinators, choke in the big games. and the field goal decision is just mind boggling. The red zone 10 yards and in was something that makes you go ..huh!! How about a quick qb sneak!! OU kicked the fire out of florida when they went up tempo... we did it one drive, or stopped doing it in the middle of drives!!! Great job by the defense!!! Brent Venables did a great job getting his kids ready, and calling a good game!!!

Choklahoma does it again! They were out-coached and out-hustled. BCS stands for Bob Cabana-Boy Stoops!

Hey, OU moved the ball and dominated in the first quarter. Tebow looked like a chicken with his head cut-off. We just needed to have one of those pin-wheel jumps into the end-zone like Bradford made in the Virginia Tech game! Not making the scores when we were in the red zone, hurt us. I'm not embarressed to be a Sooner cause they played their hearts out!

LOL LOL LOL Big Game Bob Does It Again.

Hook 'em

Choklahoma does it again! They were out-coached and out-hustled. BCS stands for Bob Cabana-Boy Stoops!

This message is to actual Sooner fans:

Please come to the realization that 95% of the people posting on here are immature teenagers, welfare using slums of society, or middleage men that still live with their moms. They aren't Sooner fans, they are simply trying to get a rise out of you. Every time you post something to the tune of "i can't believe you would say that" or "You are so ignorant." etc etc, you are doing exactly what they want! Quit giving them what they want and these losers will stop posting! BOOMER SOONER!

I see NewsOK was down for a few hours...guess the weight of the guilt of blowing another BCS bowl loss was too much for them and it crashed the servers...BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Florida was the better team last night. However, I was proud of the defensive performance. That was one of their better games. Sure a few long runs but no long passes and a couple of turnovers. It was the offense that did not come to play except for a few drives and two of them ended at the goal line. Poor play calling and poor excecution on the offense doomed the Sooners. The officials did not help except to slow down the high tempo offense. I could not believe the non call for pass interference on Manny Johnson on the first drive. The defensive back hit Johnson long before the ball got there. Florida kicking the ball to slow down the Sooners and no call, holding on Florida with no calls. However, it was not the officials it was Florid's defense and the lack of execution on offense with poor play calling by the OFF coordinator that was the difference in the game. Tebow is a good as advertised and deserves the praise he gets. OU was able to contain him until the fourth quarter. Give Tebow credit he won the game for the Gators. I will always be a Sooner and devoted to the team but I am tired of losing the big games. The Sooners were in the game for a change and did okay considering.

As an OSU fan, I cheered for the Sooners last night and think they should be proud of the season they had. Florida just had better athletes this time around. OU will continue to be a great team. Florida showed its lack of class from the fans and the team last night. That hit on Johnson in the first quarter on Florida's sideline showed how classy that bunch really is. Sorry the Sooners had to lose, but they will be fine.

Hey Trojans, I guess God was on Tebow's side. Tebow is obvisouly more christian than any of us. And, about that kick blocking record of FU. They just recklessly run into the kicker and pray they touch the ball! Yah, real class, those Florida goons. In the end...Florida outplayed us.

Two things . . . (1) A Trojan fan has nothing to say until they stop paying their players and actually start playing quality teams away from their own backyard (Rose Bowl is a joke). (2)Jolly eats his boogers.

actually, many will be sick of OU returning, and I don't blame them. i think barry's right. Let's not talk about Juggernauts. Bob's been better in the regular season than Barry has, but his post-season doesn't warrant him being there next year even if they have an awesome season. we are posers and we shoulda let Texas or Utah or So. Cal paly in the game. All of those choices might have put more numbers than OU's team, might have had more red-zone scoring.

There's always the 5-31 Thunder! Or watching Clay Bennett's nose hair grow over his upper lip. GO GATORS!

Two things . . . (1) A Trojan fan has nothing to say until they stop paying their players and actually start playing quality teams away from their own backyard (Rose Bowl is a joke). (2)Jolly eats his boogers.

Its ok ou fans, because ou is still be in the big 12. Hey, maybe stoops can schedule nebraska, missouri, and texas a&m for non-conference games. You could have a warm-up against iowa state, or a maybe a rematch against ut-chattanooga. Anything to boost the stats for the offense of the century! Maybe they can even create a new bowl, just for ou. We will play it in norman so ou will not have to worry about a neutral field. We will call it the sooner bowl, and ou can play cincinnati, so they won't have to worry about choking!!!

Footbqall! . . Football! . . who cares, let's move on to basketball, huh.

Anytime we are in a big game and Kevin is still the O.C. calling plays I know it will be close or we will lose.

Now comes the excuses for months on end. Both OU and OSU laid an egg in their bowl games...period. All the trash talk by OU fans is now over, and once again you end the season with NOTHING. So now sit back and stew because that's all you have to show for it...oh and your 60 pts per game record...lmao

The only thing I blame Coach Stoops for is not firing Kevin Wilson 3 yrs. ago.Kevin needs to back to the Pee Wee league,because he sure can't call plays or stick to the game plan in big games.

I have to echo Ronnie's comments. OU played good enough on defense to have won. The play calling on offense lost this game. Give Florida and Tebow credit but OU coaches got real dumb at critical times when they least could afford it. Yes OU has talent to compete with the best teams but what normally spells the difference in winning and losing against evenly talented teams is coaching. Just look to the pros for proof.

I am an OU fan but feel I must make a comment. For years now I have said that Stoops is a good coach but not a great coach. Great coaches will win some of the big games which does not seem to be the case here. Others can talk about the coordinators all night long but the bottom line is this...Stoops hired them. I also have been saying this as well....talent only goes so far. Every year OU will have the talent to compete and probably win the big 12....however, then comes execution and play calling from the coaches to win the big ones. We lack in the play calling department. Just a reminder,,,the one title we won was not with the players that stoops and his crew brought in. Since then he has won alot of big 12 titles but thats it. My point is this. Stoops in my opinion is a great recruitor and would probably fit in well in the pros as such, but as a great coach he is not. I know this for the amount of money he is getting paid it is expected to win some of the big ones. Many people say....well at least we got there....thats garbage! He is being paid an extremely large amount of money to win the ones that count and its not happening. I realize this isn't the pro's but if it was he would have already been fired! At what point do we get tired of just competing for the big 12 on talent alone. I will always be an OU fan but have been ready for a change for quite some time. Win or lose the university needs to realize the facts....talent yes,,,coaching no.

USC, as much as I hate them, would have beaten BOTH of those teams by three scores.

Out played probably, out coached... YES!

Yeah, the loss stings. OU made it to the national championship game, and there are not very many teams that can say that, is there? This loss doesn't define our tradition and will not hinder us from continuing to pursue new championships, beginning next fall. OU is a great team, and I'm proud of them! Florida knows their victory was hard fought and that it could have easily gone OU's way. Yes, this game was frustrating, but OU played hard and we have NOTHING to hang our heads about! Boomer Sooner!

I guess there's a bright side...OU can bragging about scoring 60 pts multiple times against Big 12 after thoughts. OU now has something in common with the Buffalo Bills, get to the big game and leave with your tail between your legs. Sooner fans can now change their stories and say "Well at least we had a good season"...LOL

SOONERS, YOU STILL #1 IN MY BOOKS AND NEXT SEASON YOU BE EVEN BETTER, IT WAS SOMETHING TO GET THIS FAR AND HAVE TWO GOOD TEAMS PLAY AGAINST EACH OTHER. GO SOONERS! YOU ARE STILL THE BEST AND DIDN'T BULLY ANYONE, YOU GUYS PLAYED A GOOD GAME, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS! HEY! WE STILL GOT THE HEISMAN WINNER!!! AND A GREAT COACH IN STOOPS! GO SOONERS!!!!!!

GOOD MORNING BOOMER LOSERS...DOES THAT LOSS STILL STING????? HOW'S THAT CROW TASTING THIS MORNING? ENJOYING A HEALTHY SERVING OF SMACK TALKER SOUP? BUWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!! BOOMER LOSERS!!!

LMAO...5 straight...You've just joined Ohio St in regards to title games. You can't spell SOUP with OU!

Hey OU....NO SOUP FOR YOU

LMAO...5 straight...You've just joined Ohio St in regards to title games. You can't spell SOUP with OU!

Hey OU....NO SOUP FOR YOU

A $3 million bonus for that? Not money well spent.