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(by John Shinn) GLENDALE, Ariz. — The 800-pound gorilla Oklahoma has carried for eight years finally jumped off its back Saturday night at the Fiesta Bowl.

Quarterback Landry Jones, who was named the game’s MVP, threw for a program bowl game record 429 yards and three touchdowns in the Sooners’ 48-20 victory over Connecticut at University of Phoenix Stadium.

“Great players were just making plays out there,” said Jones, who was the game’s most outstanding offensive player....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Clay Horning) GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was all there. The domination, the stratospheric statistics, the brilliance of Ryan Broyles, the resurgence of Landry Jones, the sticktoitiveness of a defense that came on strong at the end of the season and did not allow an offensive touchdown Saturday night.

That wasn’t all....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Clay Horning) GLENDALE, Ariz. — About 90 minutes prior to kick, Bob Barry, the longtime voice of Sooner football and basketball, who would soon be calling his final Oklahoma football game Saturday night at University of Phoenix Stadium, sat down in the press box for a pregame meal.

Alone....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by John Shinn) GLENDALE, Ariz. — Oklahoma defensive end Ronnell Lewis suffered a “mild concussion” Saturday night, but the injury looked much scarier than it turned out to be.

Lewis was taken to the locker room on a cart midway through the third quarter after suffering a neck injury while blocking when OU was returning a kickoff with about 9 minutes left in the third quarter. Lewis walked off the field after the play, but immediately began talking to members of the Sooners’ medical staff....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Kenneth Best) The practices are finished. The fans are anxious and ready to begin their tailgate parties outside the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The news conferences are over, and all the questions have been answered except for one.

Will it be UConn, champions of the Big East, or Oklahoma, champions of the Big 12, who leave the desert as the champion of the 40th Tostitos Fiesta Bowl?....read more from UConn Today

(by John Shinn) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The questions have been coming for several years. They are all phrased a little differently but have the same intended bull’s-eye: When will Oklahoma get the BCS monkey off its back?

It’s an issue — three losses in BCS national championship games and two losses in the Fiesta Bowl since the end of the 2003 season — the current Sooners didn’t create. It is something they inherited.

But it’s an issue they want to resolve....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Clay Horning) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s a funny thing.

Oklahoma and Connecticut will meet in the Fiesta Bowl tonight, and it is clearly the biggest game in the history of Husky football.

UConn hasn’t even been playing in college football’s top tier — the the bowl subdivision — for a decade....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Clay Horning) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Oklahoma’s football program, following tonight’s 7:30 p.m. Fiesta Bowl clash with Connecticut, will have played in 44 bowl games.

Of the previous 43, the Sooners have won 25, beginning with their second bowl game, a 34-13 victory over North Carolina State at the Gator Bowl, played Jan. 1, 1947. The Sooners lost their original bowl game, 17-0, against Tennessee, Jan. 2, 1939, at the Orange Bowl....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by David Ubben) 1. Do not turn the ball over more than twice. There's no underestimating this for the Sooners since they are playing as heavy favorites. Even if Huskies running backJordan Todman runs wild on them for 200-plus yards, Oklahoma has the offense that can outscore Connecticut and score 50 points to win if necessary....read more from the ESPN Big 12 Blog

(by Clay Horning) NORMAN — Can Oklahoma play like Oklahoma?

Isn’t that the question Saturday night at University of Phoenix Stadium? It is not the storyline. But for the Sooner Nation, perhaps it should be....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by John Shinn) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The tortoise was never supposed to beat the hare, but it did. The Fiesta Bowl Saturday night will be a similar competition Saturday night between Oklahoma and Connecticut.

The meeting between the Big 12 Conference and Big East Conference champions will be a contrast in offensive styles....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by John Shinn) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Landry Jones seems to have put all of Oklahoma’s quarterback questions to rest. His play in the Sooners’ victories over Oklahoma State and Nebraska quieted, if not silenced, doubts he would be the Sooners’ starting quarterback next season.

Both Drew Allen and Blake Bell don’t see that as a given....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by John Shinn) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In the middle of the season, Cameron Kenney’s playing dwindled.

Oklahoma’s receiving corps, which is loaded with young, talented players, was taking hold. The senior’s time as a go-to receiver appeared to be over.

Kenney, however, didn’t see it that way....read more from The Norman Transcript

(by Jono Greco) What better way to end this list than to talk about the last game the Sooners played in and won: the Big 12 Championship game.

Obviously they wouldn’t be in the Fiesta Bowl if they did not win the conference title, but the manner in which they won the game was far from the usual formal they used in all of their other wins. Spotting the Cornhuskers 17 points was definitely not head coach Bob Stoops’ plan, especially at a neutral site field where about 65 percent of the fans rooted for Nebraska....read more from At The Yard

(by Shawn S. Lealos) Enjoy Ryan Broyles during the Fiesta Bowl this weekend because it may be the last time you see him in an Oklahoma Sooners uniform.

"I feel like I've been here and I've done my thing," Broyles told the Tulsa World. "If I were to come back, it'd be a great situation. I'm from Norman, so I have all my family and friends there....read more from the Oklahoma Sooners Examiner