Stoops, Saban to meet again?
Published: 9/29/2008 9:08 PM
Last Modified: 9/29/2008 9:08 PM
Oklahoma and Alabama gave us two tremendous games a while back. Renaldo Works saved the Sooners' hide in 2002, then Michael Thompson and Brandon Jones caught back-to-back passes, on Blake Ferguson's faked punt and Jason White's bomb, to wiin in '03.
Could the two college football blueboods meet once more? Say, this January in the BCS championship down in Miami?
Matt Hayes thinks so. He slots the Sooners and Crimson Tide opposite one another in his latest Sporting News bowl projections.
An opportunity for Bama revenge, sure, and for OU payback as well. Remember that Nick Saban's greatest triumph as a head coach came at Bob Stoops' expense in the '04 Sugar Bowl.
No way, of course, that Nos. 1 and 2 in the current AP poll hold up another two months. As impressive as both have been, the Sooners and Tide are destined to stumble along the way. It's simply the way the trippy world of college football operates anymore.
Still, it's way cool to imagine the most hated coach in the business (that's Saban by the way) locking brain cells with the most snakebitten (see: Stoops' four-game BCS losing streak).
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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