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Four questions on OU football
| Modified: November 30, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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Published: December 1, 2008
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Two coaches saved Oklahoma in the BCS by giving the Sooners first-place votes in the coaches poll. That helped OU stay ahead of Texas in the coaches poll by a single point. Who were these two coaches?
Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford arrives at the Switzer Center to see results of the BCS rankings on Sunday. Photo By Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
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Because the votes are kept secret until the final ballots are submitted next Sunday, we may never know.
But here’s a guess: Texas Tech’s Mike Leach and Nebraska’s Bo Pelini, two former assistants under Bob Stoops who were blown out by the Sooners this season and had votes in the coaches poll. Leach said after his team’s 65-21 loss to OU that he would vote the Sooners ahead of Texas.
Another possibility is South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier, who was the head coach at Florida when Stoops was the Gators’ defensive coordinator. Spurrier was the only coach other than Stoops to vote OU No. 1 at the end of the 2007 regular season.
Did the BCS mess put OU behind in its preparation for Missouri?
Not really.
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