One (young) man's OU football top 10 list
Published: 4/28/2008 10:08 AM
Last Modified: 4/28/2008 10:08 AM
Now that the draft has come and gone, the football well has completely dried up. Which means the appearance of things like top 10 lists to pass the time through dreadful baseball season.
Here's one courtesy of Royce Young of the OU Daily student paper -- his top 10 plays/moments from the Sooners' Bob Stoops era:
#10 -- Renaldo Works turning a short reception into a this-way-and-that 39-yard gain to set up a dramatic victory over Alabama in 2002
#9 -- The 99-yard fourth-quarter drive that beat Nebraska for the '06 Big 12 championship at polar Arrowhead Stadium
#8 -- The '03 goal-line stand against Oklahoma State that, legend has it, prompted then-defensive coordinator Mike Stoops to invite the entire Cowboy sideline to fight him
#7 -- Jason White's game-winning touchdown pass to Mark Bradley that rescued a trip to always-treacherous Texas A&M in '04
#6 -- Adrian Peterson's 37-yard TD gallop at Nebraska in '05, the day he returned from injury and announced in a message scribbled on one of his pads, "I'm baaaack"
#5 -- Peterson turning his first handoff against Texas in '04 into a 44-yard sprint, paving the way to the Sooners' fifth straight Red River conquest
#4 -- The stunning one-two punch at Bama at '03; Blake Ferguson's punt-formation completion to Michael Thompson, followed by White's TD bomb to Brandon Jones
#3 -- The national-championship-clincing sequence at the '01 Orange Bowl: Rocky Calmus' strip of Chris Weinke, Roy Williams' recovery and Quentin Griffin's subsequent touchdown run
#2 -- Torrance Marshall's pick-and-score at A&M, which made #3 possible in the first place
#1 -- Williams, earning the "Superman" moniker at Chris Simms' expense at OU-Texas '01
I'd say young Mr. Young has it pretty much pegged. I'd make just one change -- Josh Heupel's perfectly-lofted touchdown bomb to Curtis Fagan to launch both OU's comeback against Nebraska in "Game of the Century II" and the Sooners' national championship run of 2000.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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