Sooners Set to Depart for Arizona

NORMAN | Oklahoma makes it way to Arizona on Monday. The team party departs Norman via the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City for Phoenix in advance of the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Day.

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This isn't the up-and-down-the-field Sooners that went to two straight national championship games. This is a tough, hard-nosed team playing with as much confidence as anyone in America helped by a an improved defense and an offensive line that went from a liability...
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The return of running back Adrian Peterson for the Fiesta Bowl could have an immeasurable effect Oklahoma. Beyond the emotional tide wave that could carry the Sooners into the Jan. 1 matchup against Boise State in Glendale, Ariz., there's the significant impact...
CBS SportsLine

The Sooners will make their way to Phoenix from various locales, after many players returned home for a few days off following Wednesday's practice. Players had the option of leaving with an official travel party from Norman or traveling on their own...
The Oklahoman

The storied Sooners, veterans of the Bowl Championship Series and winners of seven national titles, will face the upstart Broncos, who have just three wins against BCS-conference teams, in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz. The local media suggested...
Idaho Statesman

The essence of Rufus Alexander was revealed on a warm, sunny Waco afternoon last Nov. 18. It was more than an hour after the Oklahoma linebacker's last tackle, and he had exchanged his white uniform for crimson sweats. He was a hundred feet outside another...
Tulsa World

The argument for not playing is that Peterson, who is expected to skip his senior season and be the top back taken in the NFL draft, shouldn't take a chance of hurting himself again. To which Sooners coach Bob Stoops says: Phooey. "Using that argument, then...
Austin American Statesman

A bunch of Oklahoma fans have written e-mails thanking the Statesman for writing about their passion for Sooners football. Here's the best line, from a fan in Texas: "And when I am dead, just like at my dad's funeral, they will play Boomer Sooner just one more time...
Idaho Statesman

Hark, the Sooner Santa brings, hopes for glorious seasons greetings. For Bob Stoops and the OU football team: A Fiesta Bowl victory? Sure. But that will hold Sooner fans over for, oh, 13 minutes. So beyond a desert delight, how about a capable quarterback...
The Oklahoman

Sure Boise State is a ways away from taking on No. 7 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, but so far, the bowl season is treating the Broncos pretty well. Of the five bowl-bound teams the Broncos beat this season, three played this past weekend. All of them won in...
Idaho Press-Tribune

While Boise State will receive the most media exposure it's ever seen, a BCS appearance is almost routine for Oklahoma (11-2). The Sooners are playing their fifth BCS game in the last seven years under Stoops, who has been to a bowl game all eight seasons he has...
Fox Sports

The Sooners' game against Boise State might be one of the most attractive BCS bowls this season. The "David vs. Goliath" part of the matchup should be intriguing. And it also will be interesting to see Adrian Peterson back in the lineup for the Sooners for the first...
San Antonio Express

But the breakout player many expect to become a household name is sophomore running back Ian Johnson. With the numbers he put up this season, it's hard to believe that won't be the case. Johnson finished the regular season second in the country in rushing...
Norman Transcript

It worked so well that nearly 16 months after falling off the biggest stage of his life, Zabransky will lead the Boise State football team onto an even bigger stage a Fiesta Bowl showdown with No. 7 Oklahoma on Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz. And he'll do it while...
Idaho Statesman

The average weight of the Boise State defensive starters is 36 pounds less per man than the average Oklahoma offensive starter. And they're going to stop Peterson? Yes, Virginia, there is a second unbeaten team out there. It's the Broncos, who play their first BCS...
ESPN

The return of Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson from a broken collarbone overshadows the great story of the undefeated Broncos. By the end of the game, the Sooners' defense should be the major talking point. Oklahoma 27, Boise State 10...
Tucson Citizen

Boise State's football team embraces its national image as the little football team that could, the classic underdog. No, the Broncos don't have the championship pedigree that Oklahoma carries with it into the teams' David vs. Goliath Fiesta Bowl meeting on Jan. 1...
Idaho Statesman

Say the words "Fiesta Bowl" to an Oklahoma football fan over the age of 35 and images of No. 22 sprinting down the field at old Sun Devil Stadium are almost instantaneous. Seldom has one player been so firmly attached to a bowl game's history as that sunny...
Tulsa World

It's OK to admit it this is the BCS game you're secretly excited about. Oh sure, you're fired up for the BCS Championship, the Rose Bowl is a national title-caliber game and how Notre Dame might do against LSU in the Sugar Bowl holds interest, but...
Fox Sports

So let me clarify what I meant when I said Oklahoma “represents everything that is wrong with college football.” Teams like OU are part of conferences that automatically get millions of dollars regardless of how they finish or how bad their conference is...
Idaho Press-Tribune

Zach Latimer's smile can light up a room. And the Oklahoma linebacker's sense of humor can light up a huddle. "Yeah," says teammate Rufus Alexander, "he's Eddie Murphy-funny." Latimer has many unique talents. He's generally regarded as the funniest player...
Tulsa World

It's always a very merry Christmas for bowl-bound college football players. The NCAA allows bowls to spend $500 per player and schools to spend an additional $350 per player on gifts that reward the team for a winning season and commemorate...
Idaho Statesman

There's no doubt that Boise State is good. But if Oklahoma plays as well as it's capable of playing -- especially if the Sooners' star running back Adrian Peterson returns in time -- the Broncos might be run out of the stadium. Peterson's finale is worth it...
ESPN

“There's a couple guys that's been kind of hesitant to come up and hit me, so I've been hitting the ground a couple times and lowering my shoulder thinking I'm about to take on contact,” Peterson said Wednesday, addressing reporters for the first time in two months...
Idaho Press-Tribune

"Very few teams in the country have the depth of talent that Oklahoma does," he said. "I think it will be a great football game. ... (The Broncos) rise to the occasion when they play against somebody considered to be a high-profile team." Ed Cunningham...
Idaho Statesman

But the Broncos aren't the only team with something to prove in the opening act in Arizona. If not for some highly dubious calls in a game at Oregon, the Sooners might have been in the one-loss club and in the running for the "other" game. So will the Broncos prove...
ESPN

On the morning of the Fiesta Bowl, Idaho resident Sandi Nuttycombe plans to throw on her bright-orange Broncos shirt and board a charter flight to Phoenix with at least 150 other Boise State fans. At University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, she'll hunt down some...
Arizona Republic

"When it boils down to it, it's my decision and what I feel like is best for me," Peterson said. "I really don't let outside things influence my decision. I'm the one that's going to have to live with it." Stoops has already indicated Peterson will start against Boise State...
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