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Oklahoma Wins Fiesta Bowl With an Offensive Performance

January 02, 2011   Brett Pollakoff   No comments

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl turned out to be a tale of two offenses: one team’s was overpowering and unstoppable; the other’s, virtually nonexistent. The Oklahoma Sooners moved the ball at will, and piled up 524 yards of offense on the way to a 48-20 victory over the Connecticut Huskies.

While Sooners quarterback Landry Jones finished with a school bowl-record 426 yards passing, going 33 for 48 with three touchdowns and one interception, and was named the game’s offensive MVP, UConn’s offense only managed to produce six of the team’s 20 points.

“You know, the tempo — we just couldn’t make some plays,” said Huskies coach Randy Edsall. “We had a chance to make some plays. You know, it’s tough to get used to the speed. And then once we did, we settled down and came back. You know, we had a chance there, it was 7-0.”

Edsall was referring to his team’s second possession of the game.

 

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Oklahoma vs. Connecticut: Fiesta Bowl

January 01, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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The 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl features the No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners (11-2) against the No. 25 Connecticut Huskies (8-4) at 8:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 1, 2011.

It couldn’t pit more polar opposite programs.

UConn wasn’t even in Division I (now FBS) until 1997 and just joined the Big East in 2004. This is the Huskies’ first appearance in a BCS bowl. Oklahoma is playing in its eighth BCS bowl and has won seven national championships. The Sooners have been in operation at the highest collegiate level since 1895, meaning the program is over 100 years older than UConn’s. The Sooners have won 42 conference championships, while UConn won a share of its first Big East title this season.

But this game won’t be decided on history.


UConn comes in hot, having won five straight games after a sluggish 3-4 start.

If Randy Edsall’s Huskies can upset the Sooners, it will be on the legs of the Big East player of the year, running back Jordan Todman. The junior ran for 1,188 yards last season, but kicked things into high gear in 2010. Only twice did he not reach 100 yards in a game this season (80 and 93, respectively), garnering 1,574 yards and 14 touchdowns on the ground — and he missed one game.

 

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Oklahoma vs. Connecticut: Fiesta Bowl

January 01, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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The 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl features the No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners (11-2) against the No. 25 Connecticut Huskies (8-4) at 8:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 1, 2011.

It couldn’t pit more polar opposite programs.

UConn wasn’t even in Division I (now FBS) until 1997 and just joined the Big East in 2004. This is the Huskies’ first appearance in a BCS bowl. Oklahoma is playing in its eighth BCS bowl and has won seven national championships. The Sooners have been in operation at the highest collegiate level since 1895, meaning the program is over 100 years older than UConn’s. The Sooners have won 42 conference championships, while UConn won a share of its first Big East title this season.

But this game won’t be decided on history.

UConn comes in hot, having won five straight games after a sluggish 3-4 start.

If Randy Edsall’s Huskies can upset the Sooners, it will be on the legs of the Big East player of the year, running back Jordan Todman. The junior ran for 1,188 yards last season, but kicked things into high gear in 2010. Only twice did he not reach 100 yards in a game this season (80 and 93, respectively), garnering 1,574 yards and 14 touchdowns on the ground — and he missed one game.

 

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Dan Mullen and Four Others Who Could Replace Urban Meyer at Florida

December 08, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Dan Mullen to Florida?When Urban Meyer resigned Wednesday afternoon, Florida officials likely started to compile a list of potential replacements. Here are five coaches who could be on the short list.

Dan Mullen, Mississippi State Head Coach
Florida fans are already pining for Mullen on message boards across the ‘net. He was the offensive coordinator under Meyer at Florida from 2005-2008 and before that he was with Meyer as his quarterbacks coach at Bowling Green and Utah. In two years at MSU, Mullen has gone 13-11, including an 8-4 mark this season — and a 4-4 record in perhaps the nation’s toughest division of a conference. Mississippi State will play in the Gator Bowl against Michigan.

Charlie Strong, Louisville Head Coach
Strong was Florida’s defensive coordinator from 2002-2009 and served as the interim head coach last year when Meyer decided he was stepping down. In just one season at Louisville, Strong has already changed the culture and improved the record two games to 6-6 and guided the Cardinals to a bowl bid.

Kevin Sumlin, Houston Head Coach
Sumlin ran one of the nation’s most potent offenses in 2008-2009, amassing an impressive 18-9 record (12-4 in Conference USA) for the Cougars. This season, injuries to Case Keenum — a possible Heisman Trophy candidate — and backup quarterback Cotton Turner for the season in September derailed a possibly special season. Sumlin was previously a co-offensive coordinator at Oklahoma.

Bob Stoops, Oklahoma Head Coach
He’s not leaving, but if Florida could convince him to do so … yeah, but he’s not leaving. Right?

Steve Spurrier, South Carolina Head Coach
Why not just add his name here? Even if it’s just for fun.

 

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Oklahoma Continues Big 12 Championship Dominance With Win Over Nebraska

December 04, 2010   Terrance Harris   No comments

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ARLINGTON, Texas — As a coach of a program that seems to be in the BCS national championship conversation most seasons, Oklahoma‘s Bob Stoops has been indifferent — at best — when it comes to conference championship games.

More than they help, they seem to hurt, has been Stoops’ concern.

But interestingly, Stoops’ Sooners have at times been at their very best on the Big 12 Championship Game stage. So it was more than fitting Saturday night in the final Big 12 Championship Game for the foreseeable future that Stoops and his Sooners added to their dominance in this conference championship game.

This time, ninth-ranked OU roared back from a 17-point deficit and thwarted long-time rival Nebraska 23-20 on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in the Cornhuskers’ final game as Big 12 members. OU has now won the league title four times in the last five seasons while locking up a conference-best seven Big 12 crowns.

For those keeping count, that spans six different OU quarterbacks and a revolving cast of players that have managed to produce winning results.

“We’re proud of the fact that it isn’t one guy,” said Stoops as he glanced over this year’s winning quarterback, Landry Jones. “It’s a team effort, and to be able to come back and win it multiple times with a lot of different players in different years … It just speaks to the consistency and the overall play through the years.”

 

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Nebraska-Oklahoma Renew Storied Rivalry One Final Time in Big 12 Title Game

December 04, 2010   Terrance Harris   No comments

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Even growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, where the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is unmatched, Bob Stoops intently tuned in as a boy as Nebraska and Oklahoma renewed their rivalry each November.

Stoops has vivid memories of the 1971 showdown, which was given the title of the Game of the Century because of the edge-of-your seat drama the game provided.

“The series, the tradition, the history, the rivalry … It goes back a long way,” the Oklahoma coach recalled this week. “There were a lot of special players, coaches and games, and to be part of it in this situation is really special.”

Little did Stoops know as a boy that one day he would be so personally invested in this storied rivalry or that he would be on one of the sidelines the last time the Sooners and Cornhuskers meet with a conference affiliation between them.

 

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Oklahoma Has History On Side in Three-Way Big 12 South Tiebreaker

November 28, 2010   Terrance Harris   No comments

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STILLWATER, Okla. – Forgive the Oklahoma Sooners if they feel like they’ve been in this situation before and feel good about their chances.

For the second time in three seasons, the Big 12 South ends the regular-season in a three-way tie for first place – this time with OU, Texas A&M and OSU at the top. And again it appears a favorable BCS ranking when the latest standings come out later Sunday will allow Oklahoma to move on to the Big 12 Championship Game.

The 10th-ranked Cowboys (No. 9 BCS) led both No. 14 OU (No. 13 BCS) and No. 17 Texas A&M (No. 17) in last week’s BCS rankings, but with OU upsetting OSU, 47-41, in Saturday night’s regular-season ending Bedlam Series, the expectation is the Sooners jump ahead of the Cowboys. Texas A&M, which lost to OSU earlier in the season but beat OU three weeks ago, is a long shot to make that big a jump following a convincing victory over struggling Texas on Thursday night.

Just like 2008 when Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech all finished at the top with 7-1 league records after beating up on each other, the Sooners, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State all finished with 6-2 records in a year where they exchanged wins and losses. The Sooners advanced to the Big 12 Championship in 2008 and eventually met Florida for the BCS national title under a similar set of circumstances.

 

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Oklahoma Shows Oklahoma State Who Is Boss in Bedlam Series

November 27, 2010   Terrance Harris   No comments

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Oklahoma Oklahoma State BedlamSTILLWATER, Okla. — For what seems like forever, the Oklahoma State Cowboys have been a pretty good program with one major hole in their resumé.

They just haven’t been able to overcome the much more prominent football program in their state, a.k.a. the Oklahoma Sooners. And in what may have been their best chance in years and in years to come, the 10th-ranked Cowboys faltered again Saturday with the stakes at their highest as the 14th-ranked Sooners survived a wild fourth quarter to win the Bedlam Series rivalry game 47-41 to send most of the crowd at Boone Pickens Stadium home extremely disappointed.

All the Cowboys had to do was win to earn their first trip to the Big 12 Championship Game next week. Instead, they end up on the short end of a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 South as perennial power Oklahoma continued its domination over its in-state rival and the division with what some consider a major upset.

But try convincing the Sooners, who own an 82-16-7 all-time lead in the series, this was anything but setting things right after they defeated OSU for the eight straight time. The Sooners are all but set to make their eighth appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game.

“We don’t really listen to all the hoopla that’s surrounding the game,” said OU linebacker Travis Lewis, who noted the Cowboys high-octane offense was stuck in neutral most of Saturday night. “We know they were the greatest offense in the world and last year they were the greatest offense in the world. They are always going to put up big-time numbers. You just can’t get caught up into records, yards per game and all those statistics. You’ve got to go out there and man up and play.”

 

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Oklahoma Positions Itself for Division Title With Big Victory Over Baylor

November 21, 2010   Kevin Tankersley   No comments

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WACO, Texas – On paper, Baylor‘s 53-24 loss to Oklahoma doesn’t look bad. OU outgained Baylor by just 101 yards and had only four more first downs than the Bears. The Sooners had control of the ball for less than a minute longer than Baylor (30:21 to 29:39).

Yes, it was a lopsided finish, but the outcome was made almost respectable by a couple of late Baylor touchdowns, scores that OU coach Bob Stoops called “cheap.”

Oklahoma’s hurry-up offense seemed to flummox the Bears early in the game. The Baylor defense was out of position on a couple of plays on the Sooners’ first drive, and the Bears picked up an illegal substation penalty trying to get their personnel set on another play.

OU, which now leads the all-time series against Baylor 20-0, was stuffed on that drive, however, when Gary Mason Jr. deflected and intercepted Landry Jones’ pass at the Baylor 40-yard line and returned it 21 yards to the OU 39. The return, though, was nullified by a personal foul call against the Bears. One step forward, two steps back. That might have been the story of the night for Baylor.

 

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Oklahoma Positions Itself for Division Title With Big Victory Over Baylor

November 21, 2010   Kevin Tankersley   No comments

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WACO, Texas – On paper, Baylor‘s 53-24 loss to Oklahoma doesn’t look bad. OU outgained Baylor by just 101 yards and had only four more first downs than the Bears. The Sooners had control of the ball for less than a minute longer than Baylor (30:21 to 29:39).

Yes, it was a lopsided finish, but the outcome was made almost respectable by a couple of late Baylor touchdowns, scores that OU coach Bob Stoops called “cheap.”

Oklahoma’s hurry-up offense seemed to flummox the Bears early in the game. The Baylor defense was out of position on a couple of plays on the Sooners’ first drive, and the Bears picked up an illegal substation penalty trying to get their personnel set on another play.

OU, which now leads the all-time series against Baylor 20-0, was stuffed on that drive, however, when Gary Mason Jr. deflected and intercepted Landry Jones’ pass at the Baylor 40-yard line and returned it 21 yards to the OU 39. The return, though, was nullified by a personal foul call against the Bears. One step forward, two steps back. That might have been the story of the night for Baylor.

 

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