For moreinformation, please visit Auto-Graphics, Inc All rights reserved. AGent, AGent VERSO, AGent Search andAGent Resource Sharing are trademarks of Auto-Graphics, Inc.Auto-Graphics, Inc.Kim Masterson, Copyright Business Wire 2009. It was almost 2001 all over again, where a late season loss to the OSU Cowboys sent the Sooners to the Cotton Bowl, costing them and the conference millions in BCS bowl money. It would of been huge for the Cowboys, sending them to their first BCS bowl, and proving at least one Pickins plan is alive and well. However, a shutout by a sub-par OU and a blowout by Texas shows that OSU has a long way to go before they are able to compete with the big boys in the Big 12 South. ![]()
That fact bodes poorly for the Cowboys, who lose a lot of talent on both sides of the ball after the season. The long-term future looks good, Gundy has proven to be a good coach, Bill Young is apparently happy and staying for the long haul and a top-10 recruiting class will be arriving in Stillwater this spring. For the Sooners, after a dominant shutout against a top-15 team and a close loss to an undefeated Texas team, they find themselves wondering what could of been, outside of Lubbock, which has been a house of horrors for the Sooners this decade The Sooners came oh-so close in oh-so many games. At times this year, they looked like the championship caliber defense promised in the preseason while at others, they looked like John Blake never left town.

People have bagged on Stoops this year for five losses but really with their extremee rash of injuries, he deserves an award much more than a pink slip. Take Texas for example, as good as they are, if they would have lost McCoy (their Bradford), in game one, Shipley (Gresham) and Houston (Granger) before the season started, then during the season lost Sergio Kindle (English) and their secondary tight end and X-factor Dan Buckner (Eldridge), and on top of all that missed one or two lineman every single week due to injury. Not only does the Stoops not deserve to be fired he deserves a raise. No one would expect Texas to be competitive with that many personnel losses but the Sooners were in every game except for one.