(by Allen Kenney) In a season in which mindless mistakes and bad luck often did in the Oklahoma Sooners, OU's 31-27 win over Stanford in the 2009 Brut Sun Bowl provided a refreshing change of pace.

Oh, the stupid mental errors–Landry Jones' downright awful interception, Gerald McCoy's boneheaded personal foul in the third quarter–were there. Same with the bad luck, such as Adrian Taylor's gruesome leg injury.

This time, though, OU refused to fold, and much of the credit for the Sooners' success against the Cardinal should go to OU's D....read more from Blatant Homerism