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Lincoln Riley has found his man. According to college football insider Bruce Feldman, Riley has hired Ohio...

Lincoln Riley professed his love for Oklahoma throughout the fall. Oklahoma returned the sentiment on Tuesday. OU...

HOLLYWOOD, FLA. — Sitting in a hotel conference room less than 12 hours removed from Saturday's 45-34...

MIAMI, Florida — Let’s just start with the obvious: Lincoln Riley’s mind operates on a different level...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Watch any NFL telecast that involves a struggling team, and Oklahoma coach Lincoln...

NEW YORK — Lincoln Riley needed a quarterback, and he had plenty to choose from. It was...

NEW YORK — Kyler Murray is, well, curious. Can Oklahoma’s dynamic quarterback play professional baseball … and...

Urban Meyer announced his retirement from Ohio State on Tuesday, and the Buckeyes embraced the Oklahoma model...

Based on this week’s Ask Hoover queries, the Oklahoma fan base seems to have begun the process...

NORMAN — Is this Oklahoma defense is the worst in school history? The sad truth is there’s...

Time again for Ask Hoover, the weekly blog where I answer your college football questions and whatever...

NORMAN — Look, nobody is saying Oklahoma doesn’t own Oklahoma State. History shows us again and again...

It’s safe to say Oklahoma has dominated the Bedlam series. The Sooners own an 87-18-7 record against...

NORMAN — Oklahoma’s game at Texas Tech this week is a homecoming for Lincoln Riley. Riley makes...

With Mike Stoops’ firing and the Sooners on an open date this week, it really feels like...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley stood on the turf in the Everest Training Center, surrounded by some 30...

NORMAN — Oklahoma made it official on Monday, announcing Mike Stoops’ “dismissal” and defensive tackle coach Ruffin...

Oklahoma vs. Texas is, quite simply, college football’s greatest rivalry. The combatants are both all-time blue-bloods (one...

NORMAN — Before he was able to even drive himself to practice, Kyler Murray could flat-out throw...

NORMAN, Okla. - Only last year, Oklahoma's quarterback led the Sooners to the College Football Playoff and...

Time to unveil this week’s “Ask Hoover” blog, where I answer your college football questions and a...

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly blog where I answer your college football questions, or just...

Mason Fine had one job as he watched the most exciting play of the college football season unfold. As Keegan Brewer...

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly blog where I answer your college football questions. On tonight’s...

Time for the debut of “Ask Hoover,” where I answer your college football questions. It’s like a...

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Which Big 12 Conference football coach best embodies “toughness?” Is it defensive-minded Gary Patterson? Mensa-smart...

FRISCO, Texas — You can wring your hands over Lincoln Riley’s quarterback competition. You can jump up...

FRISCO, Texas – Oklahoma won another Big 12 title and made it to the College Football Playoff...

The more things change, the more the Big 12 Conference stays the same. Oklahoma owns three consecutive...

Bob Stoops knows a little about how Lincoln Riley thinks after working with him for a couple...

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Finding a replacement for Bob Stoops was never difficult for Oklahoma. Stoops abruptly stepped down from his post...

While players have an opportunity to enter the NFL draft after their junior or redshirt junior seasons,...

NORMAN — An hour and a half before Oklahoma was set to open the 2017 season with...

The speculation started the minute Bob Stoops retired — what would the Oklahoma coach’s next move be? Would...

TULSA — Exactly one year ago today, we media scurried around Bob Stoops at the OU-Tulsa Schusterman...

Troubling news out of Dallas today. As Roy Williams was inducted into the Cotton Bowl Hall of...

When Roy Williams was a junior at James Logan High School in Union City, Calif., one page...

NORMAN — Cursed with an unrelenting wind and chilly temperatures, the day began with a few speeches...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Bob Stoops hasn’t been one to talk much about statues. Not his own, anyway....

Mark Andrews came to Oklahoma to be a wide receiver. But he will be going the NFL...

Oklahoma will host FCS opponent Missouri State in the 2020 season opener, according to FBSchedules.com. Playing a...

A little song, apologies to Billy Joel. Baker Mayfield, Grant Jerami, Billy Donovan at the Peake Lincoln,...

The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department has announced several details surrounding the April 14 spring football game,...

It doesn’t seem like it, but Wednesday was Lincoln Riley’s first traditional National Signing Day. That’s not...

Four times, college football has staged a playoff. And twice, Oklahoma was invited. The Sooners’ trophy case...

Lincoln Riley continues to stamp his own image on the Oklahoma Sooners. Jerry Schmidt, Bob Stoops’ most...

College football’s national championship is on the line tonight, and elite defense will be on display. Georgia...

NORMAN — When he was an assistant coach at Texas Tech, or even when he was offensive...

Bob Stoops joined Sam and Colby at Fields and Future Bow Tie Ball.

NEW YORK — On Sunday night, 24 hours after winning the 83rd Heisman Memorial Trophy, Oklahoma quarterback...

Watch the press conference with Baker Mayfield and Lincoln Riley after Mayfield became the Sooners’ sixth Heisman...

NEW YORK — Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma’s brash, bold and brilliant quarterback, has completed an impossible journey that...

NEW YORK — Every year at this time, I write a column explaining my vote for the...

NEW YORK — Billy Sims says he already has his speech written for Saturday night when Baker...

NORMAN — Oklahoma got just the matchup it wanted in the College Football Playoff: the big, bad...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Baker Mayfield slipped on yet another Big 12 championship T-shirt and let out a...

ARLINGTON, Texas — One at Boone Pickens Stadium. One at Owen Field. And now one at Jerry...

NORMAN — Bob Stoops used to say everyone seemed in an awful hurry to get to the...

Is Baker Mayfield the greatest quarterback in the history of Oklahoma football? As the No. 8 Sooners...

NORMAN — Oklahoma turned the defensive dogs loose on Texas Tech on Saturday night, and on Monday...

NORMAN — As Texas Tech comes to town for a prime time Saturday night game against No....

NORMAN — Whether he’s on the friendly confines of Owen Field, a neutral madhouse like the Cotton...

NORMAN — It’s always nice to start fast, but maybe the most dubious hallmark of any team...

DALLAS — While Baker Mayfield strutted around the Cotton Bowl, posing for selfies and doffing the Golden...

  NORMAN, Okla. — Iowa State planted the Iowa state flag on the big “OU” logo in the center of...

Lincoln Riley’s contract details were released on Tuesday, and the University of Oklahoma is all-in on paying...

Multiple Twitter reports Tuesday night indicated that University of Oklahoma president David Boren will announce his retirement...

NORMAN — They weren’t kidding about Sooner Squad 17. Every year on college football teams across America,...

Some news, an apology and an untucked shirt. Take-aways from Monday’s press conference: 1. Andrews will be...

NORMAN — So Lincoln Riley doesn’t have record-setting running backs and award-winning receivers to move the football...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lincoln Riley flitted around, almost like the late Jim Valvano, desperate for someone to...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson was asked this week how he thinks he...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — “Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!” A man stands from his chair, wobbling a little as...

Rape survivor and sexual assault activist Brenda Tracy was in studio with Lauren Rew & John Hoover...

NORMAN — The greatest superlative of Bob Stoops’ illustrious career at the University of Oklahoma is that...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley clearly remembers one major hangup from his two seasons as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator....

NORMAN — Oklahoma’s new coach tried to deflect any hubbub about the start of the Lincoln Riley...

NORMAN — Oklahoma football fans got a lot of questions answered on Saturday. But with No. 2-ranked...

Overrated or Underrated: National Perception of In-State Coaches Sam Mayes from the mMm Ranch will be doing...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley stepped off the elevator at the third floor of the Stadium Club on...

The Texas QB boom, getting a grip and Bob Stoops looks back. Which was the real upshot of...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the two weeks leading up to the 2017 college football season, Franchise columnist and...

FRISCO, Texas — Big 12 Media Day is being staged this year at The Star, Jerry Jones’...

FRISCO, Texas — Bob Bowlsby was more than 17 minutes into his opening statement on Monday morning...

Former Sooner linebacker Torrance Marshall (1999-2000) joined the G-Men. You can hear Erik Gee, Anthony Fogle, and...

The start of the Lincoln Riley era keeps getting better and better for Lincoln Riley. The University...

Guerin Emig: With Bob Stoops gone, can Mike Gundy become Football Face of the Big 12?. Bill Snyder,...

When Bob Stoops retired last week, he left behind two big things. One was a huge chasm...

The Lincoln Riley Era is rolling along, fast as heck but under control, like two wild ponies...

The Oklahoma Sooners are in better shape today than they were exactly one week ago — the...

Lincoln Riley just sent a message to Tom Herman: No trespassing. The Texas football coach on Monday...

In case you were living under a rock, Bob Stoops shocked Oklahoma and the entire country last...

Team meeting, 2:30 p.m., Red Room. Bob Stoops and his staff were holding their first formal team meeting,...

Could Bob Stoops return to college coaching somewhere else?. Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops surprised the college football...

Bob Stoops tenure at OU has always had a tie with one of his mentors, Bill Snyder...

OU football: Lincoln Riley's mentors -- Bob Stoops, Mike Leach and Ruffin McNeill -- agree: Riley's ready...

Bob Stoops stunned the college football world when he abruptly announced his retirement on Wednesday. Former Sooners...

Lincoln Riley, 33, takes over as Oklahoma’s football coach. NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Just three years ago, Lincoln Riley...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley’s understated demeanor belies his intense competitive streak. His humble upbringing in Muleshoe, Texas,...

Stoops abruptly announced Wednesday that he is retiring after leading Oklahoma to 10 conference championships and a...

NORMAN — Oklahoma linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo was so disappointed on Wednesday to learn that Bob Stoops was...

NORMAN — We may always wonder why. Why today? Why Wednesday? Why June 7, 2017? Why did...

Bob Stoops announces his retirement Lincoln Riley introduced as 22nd Oklahoma head coach

There were cookies and brownies and a synthetic podium setup within the club level inside Oklahoma’s Memorial...

In the first decade of the 2000s, after Bob Stoops pole-axed Texas in 2000 and 2003 en...

A couple years ago, an anonymous poll was released that showed that Bob Stoops was the one...

Oklahoma president David Boren’s statement today during the Bob Stoops retirement press conference: “Well indeed it has...

One of the many memories during the Bob Stoops’ Era at Gaylord-Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium was when...

According to a report in The Oklahoman, University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops will shock the...

According to The Oklahoman, Bob Stoops will be stepping down as head coach after 18 years at the...

OU football: Bob Stoops is still defending the Big 12, says OU has done its share. Bowl game-wise,...

TULSA — The prevailing notion is that for the Big 12 Conference to be good again, Texas...

College football news today — and who couldn’t use a little college football news in May? Oklahoma’s...

Source: Stormin in Norman Ask anyone in or outside of the media who passionately follows college football...

Oklahoma has gotten serious about Lincoln Riley. Real serious. The OU Board of Regents on Thursday announced...

Author: Mike Houck / Source: OU Athletics NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents approved a three-year...

Author: Eric Bailey Tulsa World / Source: Tulsa World Oklahoma has had four offensive tackles taken in the NFL...

Author: Mike Houck / Source: OU Athletics NORMAN — Three University of Oklahoma players were selected ono the final...

Source: OU Athletics No program has been more consistent in supplying NFL talent than Oklahoma. Follow this...

Author: Bob Przybylo / Source: Scout.com Bob Przybylo/Scout An in-depth account of OU’s 2018 quarterback search and how Cameron...

NORMAN — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops “felt good about” the final week of spring practice following the...

Source: Stormin in Norman Winning conference championships in college football is not as easy as it might...

Author: Gabrielle McMillen / Source: Sporting News Baker Mayfield (Getty Images) Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield has taken responsibility for...

NORMAN — Nothing wrong with Oklahoma’s 2017 roster that a spring scrimmage won’t fix. All the weeping...

Author: Berry Tramel / Source: NewsOK.com OU quarterback Kyler Murray throws a pass during Saturday’s Red-White Game at Gaylord...

Author: Jenni Carlson / Source: NewsOK.com Oklahoma running back Rodney Anderson, middle, is one of several players expected to...

Author: Bob Przybylo / Source: Scout.com It’s juggling act weekend for OU’s Kyler Murray. Baseball-to-football-back-to-baseball for the dual-sport star....

Source: OU Athletics NORMAN — The Oklahoma football team held its first spring practice Tuesday afternoon at...

Author: Steve Wiltfong / Source: 247Sports X WATCH & READ Friday Five: Best Heisman Trophy Bets x player version...

Source: NewsOK.com NORMAN — Gabriel Campbell never made it on the field for Oklahoma after signing in...

Source: Times Record By Cliff Brunt, The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — Baker Mayfield is trying his...

Author: Bob Przybylo / Source: Scout.com Bob Przybylo/Scout It’s a guaranteed rematch, but OU coach Bob Stoops is in...

NORMAN — Maybe we’ve begun to just take it for granted, the Oklahoma Sooners opening spring practice...

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Author: Bob Przybylo / Source: Scout.com Bob Przybylo/Scout The OU 17-for-2017 continues with a look at offensive line and...

Bob Stoops worked out at Oklahoma's pro day. Let me explain.. Oh, you thought Pro Day was only for players? If you thought that about Oklahoma, you would be very wrong. Bob Stoops getting a workout in while his former players get after it pic.twitter.com/8OqgHZwssb — Joey Helmer (@joeyhelmer247) March 8, 2017 The issue of...

Like he did a few years ago when Cody Thomas played both baseball and football at Oklahoma, Sooners baseball coach Pete Hughes praised football coach Bob Stoops on his handling of Kyler Murray's split spring. After two seasons away from baseball, Murray is hitting .200 with a team-high five stolen bases and a...

Guerin-teed it was quite a week: Take Bob Stoops over Lon Kruger in a longevity derby, but don't bet the house. This made me laugh The NFL discovered what all of us have known about Oklahoma specimen Samaje Perine for three years — he leaves you in awe. In September of 2014, someone asked...

The dilemma facing Bob Stoops on what to do about Baker Mayfield is no dilemma at all....

Bob Stoops should strip Baker Mayfield of his captain status. Mayfield hurt himself. Hurt his image. Hurt his standing with OU fans, a particularly forgiving bunch of loyalists but who expressed collective disgust over the police report out of Fayetteville, Ark. When the officer asked Mayfield to come to him, Mayfield began walking away, the officer...

Sooners Have Special Connection. The Schertz (Texas) Clemens standout has seen his recruiting skyrocket over the past few weeks including offers from Florida State, Nebraska, Oregon, LSU, Tennessee, and Notre Dame amongst many others. One of those 'others' was Oklahoma who offered Bush on Valentine's Day and it seems that while all of the...

Oklahoma Sooners Football: Comparing an OU Commit to an OU Legacy. Now, Kendal’s little brother Casey is coming up through the Southmoore system. But the chances of him staying here for college are slim, mostly because of one guy: Cameron Rising. And it’s not like Mayfield is taking off constantly, either. Rising has been committed since...

Bill Haisten: Bob Stoops seems certain that Rodney Anderson can be an impact presence in the Sooner backfield. During a recent interview on the Tulsa Sports Animal, Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops was asked about the status of the Sooner backfield. As Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon prepare for the NFL Draft, leaving OU...

The Sooners did it on the recruiting trail as well, landing their best-ranked signing class (eighth nationally) since 2008. Bob Stoops & Co. certainly stuck the landing. In fact, Stoops isn’t just the longest-tenured coach in the Big 12 (Bill Snyder’s on his second stint at Kansas State). None of the state’s top-10 players went...

OU commit Trae Young punctuates insane week with 39-point performance in 79-70 win. Bob Przybylo/Scout OU commit Trae Young punctuated one of the craziest weeks in recent memory with a 39-point performance in a 79-70 win vs. rival Norman. Young scored 39 points, including his team’s final 12 points to propel Norman North to...

Oklahoma football preview: Sooners 2017 schedule, roster and three things to watch. Bob Stoops enters his 19th season with another team that could make a run at the College Football Playoff. The Sooners are ranked No. When is Oklahoma's spring game? 2017 Oklahoma roster Oklahoma's roster will be updated in the spring and summer here. Oklahoma has...

Oklahoma Sooners Football Recruiting: Tracking the Sooner State’s Best of 2018. But the guys here are already hot on the trail for the class of 2018, and after Graham brought you up to speed on the nation’s top targets OU has its eyes on, here’s a rundown of the state’s best and where...

Bob Przybylo/Scout OU's move to a four-man front paid off huge for Sooners down signing day stretch run. It’s time to head back to the four-man front. Maybe not all the time, but OU returning that 4-3 alignment absolutely helped in landing those final defensive line pieces of the 2017 class. OU flipped Lott from...

Oklahoma Sooners Football: 2018 Top Targets. Last year OU started stacking commits right around this time, so the next few weeks will be crucial. 48 Play Brennan Eagles is a big ol’ receiver who will be coveted by schools throughout the country, but he’s expected to visit Norman this weekend for junior day per...

Oklahoma surges to Red River Rivalry win as Texas’s defensive woes persist. The Sooners avenged last season’s loss to the Longhorns and have now won five of the last seven meetings in the storied rivalry. You have to believe that the defense, under a coach known for defense in Bob Stoops, will continue to...

Oklahoma had six five-star recruits in that class. Oklahoma was on top of the recruiting world. Only a handful of teams — maybe USC, maybe Florida — were recruiting as consistently well as the Sooners. Since 2010, it’s been more or less expected that Bob Stoops would recruit a good-but-not-great class to Norman, coach them...

Oklahoma Sooners Football: Super Bowl Sooners Left Their Mark at OU. One of my favorite things about the Sooners in the NFL series I wrote this season was seeing Chris Chester’s name in the Atlanta Falcons starting lineup every week. The soft-spoken, big-hearted Chester exemplifies unsung hero and could be considered the consummate teammate...

OU football: Sooners looking ahead to 2018, 2019 recruiting classes. Elite quarterback Cameron Rising, who committed in August 2016, and three-star defensive back Jordon Austin are the other two early members of the class. “So Oklahoma doesn't have to have 15 guys by the season-opener. He's another elite guy in the country, so other players...

Oklahoma football: Bob Stoops' initial comments about Mayfield, Mixon, Perine and others on past signing days. Stoops called it one of the best group’s he’s had in 19 seasons as the Sooners’ head coach. … Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine (2014) “Joe Mixon and Samaje Perrine are two very physical, tough backs. Joe is 6-2,...

Berry Tramel: Chris Chester is Bob Stoops' longest-tenured NFL player. Who can believe that the longest NFL career of a Bob Stoops Sooner belongs to an offensive lineman who made just seven OU starts. “Really, it's one of the more unlikely stories and careers of maybe all our guys,” Stoops said. The Atlanta Falcons' right...

OU football: Future OU players form a tight bond. It was a relatively calm day, at least on the recruiting front, with the core of his class, ranked No. “I feel like we're a family before we even get there, and I feel like we're already tight,” offensive guard Tyrese Robinson said. “We're brothers already. We're...

CEDAR HILL, TEXAS — Charleston Rambo didn't expect to run into the player he wanted to replace when he made a run to the mall Tuesday night, the day before signing day. Rambo was part of a strong group of players the Sooners signed Wednesday, especially in the offensive skill positions, where they'll...

Sooners' Ricky DeBerry moving to inside linebacker. NORMAN — Not only are the Sooners changing up their defensive scheme, but at least one OU player is also making a position switch as outside linebacker Ricky DeBerry is moving to middle linebacker, Bob Stoops announced Wednesday. He record five tackles, including one for a loss...

Westbrook, a four-star juco transfer wide receiver, signed with Oklahoma two signing days ago listed at 6-feet, 175 pounds. Brown, a four-star juco transfer wide receiver, signed with Oklahoma listed at 5-11, 170. “His quickness and speed is very similar to Dede's,” OU coach Bob Stoops said at during his National Signing Day press...

Sooners thrilled with first top-10 class since 2010. The last time Rivals ranked the Sooners so high was 2008. “I feel we signed one of the best classes we’ve signed in 19 years,” Stoops said. However, more newsworthy is what OU did close to home, signing six in-state talents and nine from Texas. “We always start...

Sooners to implement 4-man defensive front. NORMAN — The newly signed defensive members of Oklahoma’s 2017 class like linemen Tyreece Lott, Zacchaeus McKinney and Isaiah Thomas will jump right in with a new system that Bob Stoops and Mike Stoops plan to implement in spring practice. The Sooners will be moving away from the...

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops announced his program’s 2017 recruiting class Wednesday, a 27-member group that ranked among the top five nationally by Rivals and Scout as of Wednesday morning and one that Stoops says has the potential to be among his best ever. — Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football)...

Bob Stoops full National Signing Day Press Conference podcast.

Bob Stoops lauds Oklahoma’s offensive haul on Signing Day. Oklahoma in 2017 brings back one of the sport’s most accomplished quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield but must replace three other valuable offensive players in Heisman finalist Dede Westbrook and star running backs Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon. Fortunately for Sooners coach Bob Stoops, he addressed...

2017 OU National Signing Day: Sooners class complete; considered long-shot for five-star DT Marvin Wilson. NORMAN — Signing Day 2017 was quickly completed for Oklahoma on Wednesday morning. It was that bond between the players that impressed OU coach Bob Stoops, who finished his 19th recruiting class. “We’ve had many opportunities through last spring and...

Austin Seibert wasn’t himself last season. In his first season in Norman, Seibert was fairly reliable, knocking...

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1 LB Jacob Phillips before he flipped to LSU. 1 inside linebacker Jacob Phillips from Oklahoma. Speaking on 104.5 ESPN’s “After Further Review” in Baton Rouge on Thursday, SEC Country recruiting analyst Sam Spiegelman said Stoops talked down about LSU to Phillips following the four-star prospect’s visit to the school this past weekend. “From there,...

Sooners Going All Out For Five-Star Defensive Tackle. With signing day nearing in just over a week, college coaching staffs around the nation are pulling out all the stops in order to land some of the most coveted playmakers in the country. When it comes to Houston five-star defensive tackle, Marvin Wilson, it appears...

Sooners enter final recruiting stretch with few holes to fill. Oklahoma football: Sooners officially welcome early enrollees to campus Sooner early enrollees: RB Marcelias Sutton brings versatility to the backfield Sooner early enrollees: Looking closer at QB Chris Robison Photo gallery: A look at OU's 2017 recruiting class NORMAN — This time a...

NORMAN — This time a year ago, Bob Stoops' office at Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium was a revolving door of recruits. With just five early enrollees, Stoops worked to fill his 2016 recruiting class with top-notch talent. It was a full-out sprint to the finish as the Sooners worked to secure the...

NORMAN — Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium was recognized this week by Scout.com's Stadium Journey website as one of the best stadium experiences in the United States and Canada for 2016. The University of Oklahoma's football stadium ranks No. 51 on the list of the 100 best athletics venues (the site reviewed a...

With National Signing Day looming, here’s a look at a mock 2017 recruiting class for the Oklahoma Sooners. 5 in the 2017 recruiting class rankings with guys like 4-star linebacker Levi Draper and 4-star tight end Grant Calcaterra headlining the class. With that said, here is a look at a mock Oklahoma Sooners recruiting...

Quarter-by-Quarter Team 1 2 3 4 "They're as good as anybody we've been out there playing with, no doubt," Stoops said of the Buckeyes. On the game's opening possession, OU drove 65 yards in 12 plays to the Ohio State 10-yard line, but came up empty when sophomore placekicker Austin Seibert's 27-yard field-goal...

Top 25 polls: Bowl wins vault Sooners and Cowboys to high finishes in rankings. Oklahoma was voted in the top five, while Oklahoma State celebrated its highest finish in five years in both the Associated Press and Amway Top 25 Coaches polls released on Tuesday. It is the highest finish in the coaches poll...

Sooners see College Football Playoff, national title in their future. The permeating thought was the Sooners were ready to win a national championship in 12 months. They compromised the most talented backfield OU coach Bob Stoops has ever had and the best at OU in decades. But seeing wide receiver Jeffrey Mead play well against...

Coach Bob Stoops helped guide his squad to a win in the Sugar Bowl. Momentum doesn't work that way, the Oklahoma football coach said the day after his team trounced Auburn 35-19 in the Sugar Bowl. I think it gives you some positive momentum, but in the end, once you're in August and into...

For Stoops, it was only the third time in 44 games (.932) his team had lost at home against a non-conference opponent in his 18 seasons with the Sooners. "We'll keep working to improve and do our best to have a better showing when we get back on the field here in...

OU football: Mixon's decision looms large for Sooners. Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon has yet to make an announcement about whether or not he will enter this year's NFL Draft. NORMAN—More than a day after Oklahoma running back Samaje Perine declared for the NFL Draft, Oklahoma is still...

Sugar Bowl notebook: Bob Stoops calls injury-plagued 2016 one of his 'more challenging years'. Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops yells at his defense after an Auburn first down during the Allstate Sugar Bowl between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Auburn Tigers in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Monday, January 02,...

BUTCH DILL Credit: AP Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) throws a pass during the first half of the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game against Auburn, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, in New Orleans. Joe Mixon emerged from his recent controversy with big plays that had teammates lifting him off his feet in celebration. 14...

Oklahoma football: Best seasons of Bob Stoops era may be yet to come. Of course, that season was 2000. That was the season of Roy Williams and a defense that allowed not a touchdown at the national championship game, a 13-2 Orange Bowl shut-down of Florida State. Three other seasons the Sooners went further, playing...

After a 38-19 victory over Auburn in the Sugar Bowl Bob Stoops joined Dylan and Todd

That part of it was the most challenging.” The victory allowed OU to close the season at 11-2 and with a 10-game winning streak. The manner the Sooners used Monday night at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome shows the season’s evolution. OU played like a national title team against the team representing the conference that’s produced...

EDITORIAL: Sooners' 10-wins in a row no small feat. As Sooner fans emptied out of Owen Field following OU’s loss to Ohio State on Sept. 17, the pouring rain was an apt backdrop for the defeated look they carried. After all, the Sooners had just gotten run over by the Buckeyes, 45-24, in the...

Auburn football: What Bob Stoops, Sooners said about Auburn after the Sugar Bowl. Very good football team and played a good game tonight.” Stoops on adjusting to Auburn’s defense after early possessions: “Really just execution. Same thing defensively. The execution early. Once we settled down and recognized what they were doing, we handled it really well.”...

The competition, obviously, wasn’t the same, but the Sugar Bowl performance by the Sooners on Monday night...

NEW ORLEANS — Bob Stoops spoke. Joe Mixon spoke. But University of Oklahoma president David Boren has...

NEW ORLEANS — As the confetti rained down, the Oklahoma Sooners bounced and roiled, chanting, waving, a...

What Bob Stoops is saying about Auburn, Joe Mixon tape. Can you talk about the challenge of trying to stop a running game, I think, that is ranked 5th in the country? Bob, a couple of weeks ago in your press conference, you mentioned that you worried about the damage to the brand with...

NEW ORLEANS — As the college football season spun out of control for Oklahoma in 2014, Bob...

In a few days the Oklahoma Sooners will be playing the Auburn Tiger’s in the Sugar Bowl....

This year, the Alabama-Washington Peach Bowl kicks off at 2 p.m. (Oklahoma time) Saturday, also New Year’s Eve, with the Clemson-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl following at 6 p.m. The College Football Playoff is using the excuse of it being a Saturday, when everyone knows the problem is New Year’s Eve. Last year, the semifinals...

Oklahoma football: Sugar Bowl has been sweet for the Sooners. Trevor Knight and Bob Stoops celebrate after the 2014 Sugar Bowl win. It is the most of any non-Southeastern Conference school in the tradition-rich bowl game. OU has only played in one other bowl (Orange Bowl, 19 times) than in the New Orleans postseason game. Sooners...

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OU football journal: Starters not expected to miss Sugar Bowl for academic reasons. NEW ORLEANS — It took Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops a couple beats to think about who he might be missing for the upcoming Sugar Bowl on Monday. As far he knows, however, he isn't missing...

Sugar Bowl: Sooners hit The Big Easy, begin preparations for Auburn. Mead and the Sooners arrived in New Orleans on Tuesday in advance of the Sugar Bowl game against Auburn. IAN MAULE/Tulsa World Jeffery Mead was asked if he believed teams with the most to play for win bowl games, with some motivated and some...

Stoops gives Sooners pass to resume practicing at Superdome. Bob Stoops arrives in New Orleans for the Sooners' first Sugar Bowl since the win against Alabama after the 2013 season. NEW ORLEANS — The last time Bob Stoops made his way down to Cajun country, he didn't take any chances. Which is why...

Guerin Emig: Lincoln Riley's return is a gift for the Sooners. Offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley (center) and quarterback Baker Mayfield form a powerful offensive duo at Oklahoma. Maybe Bob Stoops did. He works for a head coach who gives his assistants plenty of room to do their jobs, and plenty of time to stay connected...

Oklahoma Sooners Football: Big Game Bob vs. the SEC. Next Monday night, the Sooners will face Auburn in the Sugar Bowl. From 2006 through 2012, the SEC won seven consecutive national championships, and this year Alabama is favored to win the title for the second year in a row. Big victories for the conference in...

How Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has fared vs. SEC in bowl games. Stoops has faced off against the SEC in six different bowls (against six different teams), winning two of those contests. Stoops’ next opportunity against the SEC comes in the Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl against Auburn, a team that the Sooners haven’t faced...

x This video is not available. This video may have expired or is otherwise not available. x This video is geo-restricted. *** The date: Dec. 31, 1999 The location: Independence Bowl; Shreveport, La. The score: Oklahoma 37, Alabama 27 The game: The Sooners had no luck running the ball, as they finished with -23 yards on...

Stoops: RB Mixon would be off Sooners had punch been in 2016. NORMAN — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said recently that Joe Mixon would be off the team if he had punched a woman now instead of 2 1/2 years ago, when he suspended the star running back for a year in a...

Sooners running back apologizes...Average baseball salary just under $4 million last season. NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon has made a tearful public apology, more than two years after punching a woman and breaking bones in her face. Mixon, coach Bob Stoops and the university have been subjects of backlash since...

After 872 days, Joe Mixon on Friday finally broke his silence. During a 27-minute press conference at...

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NORMAN, Okla. -- For the first time since it became public, Oklahoma Sooners coach Bob Stoops addressed the surveillance tape showing Sooners running back Joe Mixon punching a female student in 2014, and he said that if it happened now, he would dismiss Mixon from the team. "Dismissal is really the only...

Bob Stoops says Joe Mixon would've been dismissed if he'd punched a woman in 2016. Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops held a press conference on late Wednesday afternoon to address the release of Joe Mixon’s video of the OU running back violently punching a woman in the face two years ago. Stoops said Wednesday...

"What we came up with discipline-wise, I feel at the time, 2 1/2 years ago was significant. And that’s positive in that that’s the way things have gone in the past 2 ½ years. "If I’m at fault of something, it's hard to give up on these young men that I go in...

OU football head coach Bob Stoops addresses player Joe Mixon’s tape release. NORMAN, Okla. – OU football head coach Bob Stoops met the media for the first time since the release of player Joe Mixon‘s tape. Stoops said he gave Mixon the opportunity to transfer after the incident and he chose to stay in...

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There are so many intangibles for every bowl game. Aside from the playoff games, and perhaps a...

Recently released surveillance footage shows Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon punching student Amelia Molitor in the face in a July 2014 incident. Activist Brenda Tracy, after seeing the video showing Joe Mixon punching Oklahoma student Amelia Molitor in 2014, sent a message to Sooners coach Bob Stoops and athletic director Joe Castiglione saying...

Joe Mixon video makes it clear: Bob Stoops, Oklahoma put wins over integrity. Joe Mixon and Bob Stoops. That’s the takeaway after a 2014 video was released showing OU running back Joe Mixon punching Amelia Molitor unconscious: As long as you have talent and help a team win games, you can get away with...

It’s been more than a quarter century since Oklahoma football has suffered like this from its own...

The Joe Mixon video is out. And it was Joe Mixon who released it. According to The...

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NORMAN — Some members of Sooner Squad 2017 finally became official signees Wednesday, the first day that OU's junior college recruits could sign their national letters of intent. “It's official #SoonerSquad17,” Brown tweeted. Then, a couple hours after Brown's announcement, Stoops tweeted that Lackawanna Community College product Marcelias...

Orlando Brown is considered an elite offensive line prospect, but he is still young and could be a sure-fire first-round NFL pick in the coming years. Cornerback Jordan Thomas announced Wednesday his return for a senior season. Among them: OU quarterback Baker Mayfield is also returning. Mayfield said he understands running backs Joe Mixon and...

NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma was at the leading edge of college athletics when it instituted...

Bob Stoops addresses WR Dede Westbrook's arrests, was unaware. Inside College Football All-America Team: Dede Westbrook 1:59 Loading Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday he was not involved with the background check process involving All-American wideout Dede Westbrook, who was arrested twice and once charged for domestic violence-related issues prior to playing for...

Bob Stoops: Oklahoma background checks didn't uncover Dede Westbrook arrests. Inside College Football All-America Team: Dede Westbrook 1:59 Loading Shortly after Oklahoma wide receiver Dede Westbrook made his rounds through the media tour as a 2016 Heisman Trophy finalist, it was revealed that the former JUCO prospect had been arrested twice and once...

Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops reacts to a call during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Iowa State, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) What Auburn fans should know about Oklahoma before the Sugar Bowl Bob Stoops isn't letting Auburn's poor finish to the regular season affect his...

Stoops on Dede Westbrook: 'Everything he's done here has been positive'. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops pats the helmet of Dede Westbrook (11) after a touchdown during a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Baylor Bears (BU) at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 12,...

2017 Big 12 schedule: Oklahoma meets West Virginia on Thanksgiving weekend as Bedlam gets moved. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 38-20 to become Big XII champions. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) Oklahoma's conference schedule got quite the shakeup when the Big 12 released its 2017 slate Tuesday afternoon. Take a look at the Sooners' complete 2017...

On Tuesday, Big 12 Conference officials released the 2017 college football schedule. The biggest change from the...

WATCH: Bob Stoops' Sugar Bowl News Conference. Following a busy week of recruiting and award shows, OU head coach Bob Stoops met with the media as the Sooners begin preparation for a matchup with Auburn in the Sugar Bowl. Stoops touched on a variety of topics including: - The Auburn game - Injury update...

Bob Stoops says he's not involved with recruits' background checks. MoreOklahoma finished 10-2 in 2016 and Baker Mayfield and Dede Westbrook were Heisman finalists. (Getty) Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday he has no association with background checks the school performs on prospective football players. Westbrook came to Oklahoma before the 2015 season from Blinn...

NORMAN — Bob Stoops was quite a bit more forthcoming Tuesday than most expected. It was widely anticipated that Stoops would clam up during his pre-Sugar Bowl press conference whenever he got his first question about Sunday’s report in the Tulsa World regarding wide receiver Dede Westbrook’s two domestic violence arrests in...

The Sugar Bowl Press Conference minus the Dede Westbrook questions.

Following recently discovered events in Dede Westbrook’s history before coming to OU, Bob Stoops fields questions from...

Bob Stoops addresses Dede Westbrook arrests, says he's not part of Oklahoma's background check process. Oklahoma won 45-24. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams) Oklahoma performs background checks on potential recruits, including Oklahoma WR Dede Westbrook, Sooners coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday at a press conference. Stoops' statement came two days after it was revealed by the Tulsa...

Oklahoma football: Bob Stoops says he's 'not part of' school's background check process. Coach Bob Stoops (left) leaves the field as an OU player carries the Bedlam trophy. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World Related story: Twice arrested on domestic violence complaints, OU’s Dede Westbrook took a complicated route to stardom Oklahoma football: Baker Mayfield, Dede Westbrook...

TULSA — Barry Switzer remembers how Oklahoma’s famed 1972 freshman class and other Sooners always wanted to...

Oklahoma Sooners 2016 Team Awards. Once he got healthy after a rough September, Big 12 defenses couldn’t cover him. Over the course of two straight drives in the second half, he carried the ball 17 times as the Sooners salted away the win. Defining Moment: End of First Half vs. Oklahoma State As the first...

NORMAN — After Oklahoma finished off a 38-20 Bedlam win over Oklahoma State on Dec. 3, Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops shared embrace after embrace with his players. “He's a players' coach, and he knows exactly what he's doing so we always have his back.” Stoops has...

The Heisman Trophy is supposed to go to college football best player. But the best offense is college football belongs to the Sooners. OU averaged 51.1 points a game. Oklahoma State snapped the ball just 62 times last Saturday. The Sooners played solid defense in the second half. In a 60-minute game, OU possessed the ball for...

Oklahoma Football: Bob Stoops, Orlando Brown Receive Big 12 Honors. Oklahoma football added more hardware to its already jam-packed trophy case on Wednesday when the Big 12 named Bob Stoops and offensive lineman Orlando Brown as individual award winners for the 2016 college football season. Mandatory Credit: Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports Stoops, who...

What does noted SEC critic Bob Stoops make of league's down season?. Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops hoists the Sugar Bowl trophy after they defeated Alabama on Jan. 2, 2014. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World File Ryan Black of 247 Sports noted that Oklahoma Sooners coach Bob Stoops has had some SEC criticism in the past, notably...

Bob Stoops, Dede Westbrook, Orlando Brown lead Oklahoma's Big 12 honorees. JOEY JOHNSON/For the Tulsa World Related: See the All-Big 12 team Conference champion Oklahoma predictably led the way when the league released its coaches All-Big 12 honor roll Wednesday. Bob Stoops was named Chuck Neinas Coach of the Year for the sixth time,...

NORMAN — Head coach Bob Stoops, wide receiver Dede Westbrook and offensive lineman Orlando Brown each took home individual honors and a conference-best seven Sooners were named to the All-Big 12 First Team as the Big 12 announced its football awards Wednesday. A senior, Westbrook was tabbed the Big 12 Offensive Player of...

Bob Stoops refuses to get off the chopper, does teleconference from a helicopter on the way to New York City. Oklahoma won 45-24. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams) If you were listening to Bob Stoops on the Sugar Bowl coaches teleconference Sunday evening, you might have heard some interference. Pay that no mind -- it was just...

Oklahoma's Perine on kneeling instead of scoring late: 'I did what I thought was the right thing to do'. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) Oklahoma running back Samaje Perine refused to rub it in on Oklahoma State. Headed to the end zone, he took a knee at the Cowboys' 2 on the next-to-last play...

Bob Stoops explains why he ranked Florida ahead of Auburn, Oklahoma's Sugar Bowl opponent. Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops questions an official in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Oklahoma's Bob Stoops makes Sugar Bowl media appearance from...

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Though not playoff bound, Sooners deliver season worth celebrating. Later, the Sooners celebrated the program’s 10th Big 12 championship in a new locker room still under construction. “I wanted the seniors to have a piece of it, a taste of it, what they’ve left behind,” coach Bob Stoops said. But Oklahoma’s playoff fate ultimately was...

Top 25 College Football Polls: Penn State moves past Michigan, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 38-20 to become Big XII champions. Penn State moved up three spots from 8 to 5, pushing ahead of Oklahoma and Michigan. Alabama got all 61 first-place votes in the poll. Ohio State, Clemson, Washington and Penn State round out the...

For this year's Oklahoma football team, the next man up helped claim the next Big 12 Championship. We've missed all kinds of guys this year. Stoops said he's liked every Big 12 title his teams have won — no matter where the venue — but claimed this year's crown on Owen Field was special. #Dede4Heisman...

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops ranked the Sooners No. 4 in the final Coaches Poll. AP Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, right, talks to Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, left, before the start of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams) After the final weekend of...

So, it’s another Crimson and Cream party on Bourbon Street. A national championship? No. A College Football...

   As the rain came down in Norman on Saturday, the Big 12 title came down to...

Sooners' Senior Pins Thank You. The win clinched the Sooners 10th Big 12 title under Bob Stoops. From a young age I was always told to "leave things better than you found them" and that has been the primary goal I've had in mind while doing what I've came here to do at OU. Many...

Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma Recap 0:25 Loading Oklahoma is the champion of the Big 12 -- again. 10 Oklahoma State 38-20 to win the Bedlam rivalry, which was a de facto Big 12 Championship Game. While the Big 12 is all but officially out of the playoff, this does settle at least one spot...

NORMAN — Eleven weeks have passed since Baker Mayfield stood in Oklahoma’s makeshift interview room and swore...

Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma LIVE score and stats (12/03/16), College football, Big 12. 2nd Qtr 1:28 Mason Rudolph 6 yd run (Ben Grogan kick) 4th Qtr 9:35 Joe Mixon 79 yd run (Austin Seibert kick) Saturday, the Oklahoma State Cowboys led by Mike Gundy travel to Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma to...

Bob Stoops watches twin sons in state title game, and sees an Oklahoma commit star. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, shown this season, watched his twin sons play for a state title (Photo: Ben Queen, USA TODAY Sports) Oklahoma State Bob Stoops has Bedlam on Saturday against rival Oklahoma State, but he spent Friday...

9 Oklahoma: Sooners can take Big 12 dominance to another love, plus other storylines. IAN MAULE/Tulsa World Big 12 domination A victory would give Oklahoma its 10th Big 12 title, all under the leadership of coach Bob Stoops. No other school has more than three Big 12 championships. The Sooners enter with 15 consecutive conference wins,...

Former Sooners defensive lineman Kory Klein joined Further Review on Friday to talk Bedlam, winning national championships,...

Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. Oklahoma Sooners Preview and Prediction. When the Sooners and Cowboys meet, great football games tend to follow. Four of the last six contests in the series have been decided by nine points or less, and two have gone to overtime. Saturday’s edition will make it five. In 11 games this season, OU...

Sorry, you, uh...caught me at a sentimental time. The end of football and the changing of the seasons has me feeling pretty wistful lately. Let’s get to business, shall we? — C&C Machine (@CCMachine) November 28, 2016 Quick is the third player from the defense to part ways with the team, the other being Matt...

Champions: An Illustrated History. OU has won nine Big 12 championships, with no other program during that span winning more than two. OU is 100-9 at home under Stoops, with all 109 of those sellouts. As OU gets set to host Bedlam with its 10th Big 12 title on the line Saturday, we take a...

Michiah Quick Dismissed From OU Football Team. Norman - OU head football coach Bob Stoops announced on Monday that junior cornerback Michiah Quick is no longer with the team due to violation of team rules. Quick, who made the switch from receiver to cornerback in the offseason, played in five games this season before...

Sooners focus solely on 9-0 league finish as Oklahoma State looms. "Never, never, never," Stoops said Monday, interrupting a question at his weekly news conference about whether another Big 12 crown might serve only as consolation if Oklahoma beats the rival Cowboys but fails to receive a spot Sunday in the four-team...

“I’m sure that’ll be a question, but right now he rested all last week and he’s scheduled to do some things today and I’m fairly confident by the end of the week he’ll be ready to play,” OU coach Bob Stoops said. Evans, who has four interceptions in the last four games, returning...

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“But he’s still, while he finishes the semester, welcome to rehab.” Quick was awarded the starting CB position opposite Jordan Thomas the week before he was injured against TCU. “Most definitely Baker,” Westbrook said Monday. Why not invite both players to the Heisman ceremony in New York a little more than a week and...

Oklahoma cornerback Michiah Quick, right, is no longer a part of the team, Sooners coach Bob Stoops announced Monday. The injury was expected to keep Quick out at least six weeks. Quick is the 11th player from the 2014 signing class to leave the team before finishing his eligibility. All three players from Fresno the...

WATCH: Bob Stoops News Conference As OU Prepares For Bedlam. Bob Stoops talked at his weekly news conference on Monday as his Sooners get set for a high-stakes Bedlam matchup this Saturday against Oklahoma State. Related: OU's Joe Mixon Releases Apology For 2014 Incident Stoops talked on a variety of topics, including: -His thoughts...

Bob Stoops, Mike Gundy Concerned About Possible Back-To-Back Games. Both Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops and Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy would like to see the Big 12 do something about possible back-to-back games before the conference championship game returns next season. With the Big 12 deciding to bring back its title game next season, the two...

OU Football: Michiah Quick no longer with Sooners. Oklahoma cornerback Michiah Quick, who showed promise early in the year after moving over from wide receiver, is no longer with the Sooners, Bob Stoops announced Monday. Quick moved into the starting lineup to begin Big 12 play after Dakota Austin struggled and Parrish Cobb was...

Oklahoma football: Michiah Quick no longer a member of the Sooners' team. Cornerback Michiah Quick is no longer a member of the Oklahoma football team due to a violation of team rules, coach Bob Stoops announced Monday. Quick, a junior from Fresno, California, started his career as a receiver but moved to defensive back...

NORMAN — Bob Stoops isn’t exactly one to run from a fight. Growing up in Youngstown, Ohio,...

Michiah Quick no longer with Sooners. Bye week comes at a perfect time for the Sooners 1:47 Loading NORMAN, Okla. — Cornerback Michiah Quick is no longer with the Sooners due to a violation of team rules, head coach Bob Stoops announced Monday during his press conference. (Follow all things Sooners -- take five...

Guerin Emig: Before he goes to play for Bob Stoops, Union's Tre Brown will try to break his heart. JESSIE WARDARSKI/Tulsa World There is one thing Tre Brown must do before he moves on from Union High School and goes to play for coach Bob Stoops at Oklahoma. “We’re really good friends,” Brown continued. “I’ve...

"Even if they have the best offense, we don't want them in the end zone because we know the more we put the ball in our offense's hands, the higher the score is going to be. "When you get a turnover, it feels really good. • Riley's tree: If you're a wide receiver...

Sooners silent on playoff hopes. With the Sooners moving up to No. “All we can do is play the very best that we can against an in-state rival with a game that has a Big 12 championship . Whatever else is going to happen will happen … All we can do is our...

They’re the only Big 12 Conference teams taking the week off and two of six that wrap up the regular season on Dec. 3. Most called the 56-28 victory over West Virginia the most physical game they’ve played. “It was the most physical game I’ve played in a long time, I think. But time off,...

Now we know. Joe Mixon is sorry. And with that, Oklahoma’s mercurial phenom can put this whole...

For the second year in a row, Bedlam will serve as a de facto Big 12 Championship...

Oklahoma State football: Bob Stoops believes Oklahoma State is a one-loss team. "In my mind, they've only got one loss if you play by the rules," Stoops said after the Sooners' 56-28 win over West Virginia. The flag allowed the Chippewas to get an untimed down and run one play. "They review everything...

WATCH: Bob Stoops' Weekly News Conference Following WVU Win. OU head coach Bob Stoops talks with the media at his weekly news conference on Monday following the Sooners' 56-28 win over West Virginia. Oklahoma's offense racked up 485 yards of offense in the win over the Mountaineers, and will be off this weekend before...

Sooners hope to get healthy on bye week ahead of Bedlam. Oklahoma cornerback Jordan Parker (9) and safety Ahmad Thomas (13) celebrate after an Oklahoma fumble recovery during the first half of an NCAA college football game against West Virginia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Raymond Thompson) NORMAN, Okla. (KOKH)...

If all you saw was the final score, it would be easy to jump to the conclusion that Sooner quarterback Baker Mayfield had another banner night in leading his team to its eighth conference win without a loss and just a single victory away from a 10th Big 12 championship for OU...

When a team is rolling, it isn’t typically looking for a break. It seems like having a bye week before the Dec. 3 meeting with No. Just with healing up and getting some guys rested and so I felt a year ago, the way we were playing, you wanted to keep playing,” he said. Last...

Oklahoma stunned the Mountaineers with 21 points in the first quarter and 13 more in the second before West Virginia was able to put any points on the scoreboard. Oklahoma’s 34-7 halftime margin was its largest in Big 12 play this season and proved to be all the Sooners needed to record their...

Oklahoma football: Three takeaways from Bob Stoops press conference. Oklahoma wide receiver Dede Westbrook (11) breaks away from West Virginia linebacker Justin Arndt before running for a touchdown during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Raymond Thompson) NORMAN — Bob Stoops held...

Now, the Sooners are entering a highly similar situation, but they got here in a way that proves no two years are quite alike. This time, OU has a bye week before the Dec. 3 showdown against Oklahoma State in Norman. “Last year, I would’ve said I didn’t want (a bye),” OU coach Bob...

NORMAN — Texas can’t help being Texas. Whether it’s stumbling over the exit of UT icons like...

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In his weekly presser on Monday, Stoops addressed OU’s playoff hopes, new facilities, his team’s pregame scuffle with West Virginia and more. According to Stoops, however, all the Sooners can do is play well against their in-state rivals in two weeks. Sure, the Sooners have defeated two of its biggest Big 12 opponents in...

Oklahoma State football: Bob Stoops believes Cowboys are one-loss team. Central Michigan's Corey Willis (8) prepares to catch a toss from Jesse Kroll (88) as Oklahoma State's Jordan Sterns (13), Tre Flowers (31) and Darius Curry (2) look on during a college football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys (OSU) and the Central...

Stoops, Sooners Look Ahead to Bedlam. NORMAN, Okla. -- Head coach Bob Stoops, LB Jordan Evans and WR Geno Lewis addressed the media during OU's bye week and looked ahead to the Bedlam Big 12 title game. Senior LB Jordan Evans This media is not supported. Senior WR Geno Lewis This media is not supported....

Oklahoma football: Live blog for Bob Stoops' press conference. Siandhara Bonnet/The Daily OU head football coach Bob Stoops looks up at the Baylor game before the game against Texas Christian University Oct. 1. Rules of Conduct Welcome to the discussion.

10 West Virginia: Sooners use fast start to win Big 12 prime-time showdown. “I’m just proud of our guys — in a game of this importance — to come in and play and win in a strong way,” OU coach Bob Stoops said. “Obviously it will be good to have a little rest and...

But for the first time ever, Oklahoma has an opportunity to claim the Big 12 crown while playing on its home field. After a six-year hiatus, the Big 12 Conference championship game will return next season at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Junior running back Samaje Perine led the Sooners with 160 yards rushing...

As the forecast called for snow to fall upon the field in Morgantown yesterday, the Oklahoma Sooners...

Oklahoma football: Predicting the score of the Sooners' game at West Virginia. 9 Oklahoma can potentially clinch its 10th Big 12 title under Bob Stoops on Saturday at No. 14 West Virginia. The Sooners and Mountaineers are slated to play the primetime ABC game in an atmosphere that is likely to be wet and cold...

Oklahoma should be on upset alert against West Virginia. Since joining the Big 12 Conference in 2012, West Virginia has beaten every team in the league except Oklahoma. The Sooners (8-2, 7-0 Big 12) defeated the Mountaineers (8-1, 5-1) in each of the past four seasons by an average of 10.5 points, with only...

Sooners Coach Responds to Loss of Defensive Ends. On Tuesday, head coach Bob Stoops of Oklahoma University announced that star defensive end Charles Walker has left the team to pursue his NFL ambitions. This news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that fellow defensive end Matt Dimon has also left the team. Walker...

• The Sooners and Mountaineers own a combined 12-1 league record this season, with the lone defeat suffered by West Virginia at Oklahoma State (37-20 on Oct. 29). • OU is 383-71-6 (.839) all-time as a top-10 team, 108-25 (.812) under Stoops. Baker Mayfield threw for 300 yards and accounted for three TDs, Joe...

Some say it may rain, or snow or be really windy this Saturday in Morgantown, W.Va., Some...