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12-22-2008, 03:50 PM
OU taking new approach
By Tim Griffin
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: December 22, 2008, 4:22 PM ET
After four stinging BCS bowl losses in the past five seasons, Oklahoma players are promising to take a different attitude to the FedEx Bowl Championship Series title game Jan. 8 against Florida.
"Obviously, the last couple of bowl games haven't worked out like we wanted," Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford said Monday at a news conference in Norman, Okla. "We want to treat this game like it was a game week here."
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Monday he plans to take his team to the bowl site a day later and employ earlier curfews to have the Sooners more prepared for their national championship game against the Gators.
Stoops has frequently talked about his disappointment in bowl losses to LSU in the 2004 Rose Bowl, USC in the 2005 BCS title game, Boise State in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and West Virginia in last season's Fiesta Bowl.
"I'm over it now," Stoops said. "But I don't think I need to bring it up."
In Oklahoma's past three BCS games, the Sooners have been blistered for 55 points by USC, 43 points by Boise State and 48 points by West Virginia. During that 54-game span that started with the loss to USC in the 2005 BCS title game, those games are among Oklahoma's opponents' five highest-scoring games. The other two came when Texas hung 45 points on the Sooners in losses in 2005 and earlier this season.
There's more if you want to keep reading.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls08/news/story?id=3787838
By Tim Griffin
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: December 22, 2008, 4:22 PM ET
After four stinging BCS bowl losses in the past five seasons, Oklahoma players are promising to take a different attitude to the FedEx Bowl Championship Series title game Jan. 8 against Florida.
"Obviously, the last couple of bowl games haven't worked out like we wanted," Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford said Monday at a news conference in Norman, Okla. "We want to treat this game like it was a game week here."
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Monday he plans to take his team to the bowl site a day later and employ earlier curfews to have the Sooners more prepared for their national championship game against the Gators.
Stoops has frequently talked about his disappointment in bowl losses to LSU in the 2004 Rose Bowl, USC in the 2005 BCS title game, Boise State in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and West Virginia in last season's Fiesta Bowl.
"I'm over it now," Stoops said. "But I don't think I need to bring it up."
In Oklahoma's past three BCS games, the Sooners have been blistered for 55 points by USC, 43 points by Boise State and 48 points by West Virginia. During that 54-game span that started with the loss to USC in the 2005 BCS title game, those games are among Oklahoma's opponents' five highest-scoring games. The other two came when Texas hung 45 points on the Sooners in losses in 2005 and earlier this season.
There's more if you want to keep reading.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls08/news/story?id=3787838