How Stoops spent his version of Selection Sunday
Published: 11/30/2008 9:37 PM
Last Modified: 11/30/2008 9:37 PM
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said he woke up Sunday morning feeling "very strange. I had to remind myself we won last night, against a rival team ranked 11th in the country at their place and you win by 20. And you wake up and you have a knot in your stomach."
Would his Sooners overtake Texas in the BCS? Would there be a Big 12 championship in their midst? Would they, therefore, have any shot at the national championship down the road?
The BCS, the nastiest villain in sports, has reduced us all to many questions and no answers.
"I went in and watched the (Oklahoma State) game in the morning. Went to church. Turned my phone off and came back. Had a sandwich. The family came over, then all the circus started, trying to pay attention to where things were going."
Stoops and a smattering of players gathered in the locker room when the BCS went public some time between 3:15 and 3:30. The Sooners got the nod and, in the immortal words of Monty Python, "there was much rejoicing."
Oh, and just in case?
"Our coaches were already looking at Missouri in the early afternoon," Stoops let on.
-- Guerin Emig
Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
