Sooners are #22 Associated Press Top 25 No. School Record Points Prev 1 Texas 13-0 1625 2 2 Southern California 12-1 1560 1 3 Penn State 11-1 1484 3 4 Ohio State 10-2 1428 4 5 West Virginia 11-1 1325 11 6 LSU 11-2 1314 10 7 Virginia Tech 11-2 1197 12 8 Alabama 10-2 1081 13 9 Notre Dame 9-3 1019 5 10 Georgia 10-3 994 8 11 TCU 11-1 937 14 12 Florida 9-3 817 16 12 Oregon 10-2 817 6 14 Auburn 9-3 799 7 15 Wisconsin 10-3 786 21 16 UCLA 10-2 778 17 17 Miami (Fla.) 9-3 589 9 18 Boston College 9-3 545 19 19 Louisville 9-3 410 15 20 Texas Tech 9-3 359 18 21 Clemson 8-4 339 23 22 Oklahoma 8-4 329 _ 23 Florida State 8-5 232 22 24 Nebraska 8-4 128 _ 25 California 8-4 45 _ Others Receiving Votes: Toledo 35, Tulsa 34, Michigan 26, Nevada 25, Navy 20, Iowa 19, Fresno St. 8, Virginia 7, Boise St. 3, Kansas 2, N.C. State 2, Northwestern 2, Arizona St. 1, Georgia Tech 1, Missouri 1, South Carolina 1, Utah 1.
7 of OUr opponents finished in the Top 27. We played a tough schedule, tougher than it looked before the season began.
Eh, we SHOULD be infront of tech, but they bought/earned it. They beat us and have one more loss. F them anyways. Wait til next year. GET YER GRADES UP
At first I felt we got hosed being so low, but after looking at it there are only a few that I really think we should be above. Clemson??? And still, at the end of the day, how does us beating Oregon equal TEN spots worse? And I bet sconsin is pizzed. That's just rubbing it in their face. Poles are dum.
22nd in the Nation on a building year? Heck yeah. Oregon should be beneath us or we should be ranked higher though. We weren't firing on all cylinders but we will bring more next year.
Who do you put there? OSU? WV? PSU deserves it as much as anybody else. The sad fact is that this year 3rd is light years from 2nd.
Final Facts on OU's Season *Oklahoma won six of its last seven games to finish 8-4. *OU defeated 10-1 and No. 6-ranked Oregon in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, 17-14. *Oklahoma was one of only three teams (West Virginia, Texas) to defeat a 10-win team in a bowl game this season. *Oklahoma played the nation's toughest schedule. The teams OU encountered this season finished a combined 84-38 (.696). *The bowl teams that appeared on OU's regular season schedule went 6-1 in post-season play. The only loss was Texas Tech's last-second setback in the Cotton Bowl.
I'm surprised at how good the non-conference teams that OU scheduled were. At the beginning of the season, I was thinking that OU would beat TCU by a fair amount, blow-out Tulsa, and beat UCLA in a close game. TCU finished 11 and UCLA finished 16. Tulsa ended up in a bowl game. That is why OU's schedule is the toughest in the nation.
I will never accept nor acknowledge that we lost to Texas Tech - our real record was 9-3 this year and we won our last seven games. Period.
I was thinking that we would finish somewhere between 15 - 20. This final ranking almost makes going to the bowl a no-win situation. But these two points made above say a lot about this season: *Oklahoma played the nation's toughest schedule. The teams OU encountered this season finished a combined 84-38 (.696). *The bowl teams that appeared on OU's regular season schedule went 6-1 in post-season play. The only loss was Texas Tech's last-second setback in the Cotton Bowl. I have a hunch that 20 - 25 years from now after Bob Stoops has retired and reflects on his coaching career, he will point to this season and the Holiday Bowl win as one of the most gratifying of his career.
