Reaction: OU 2006 Big 12 Champions

Final - Oklahoma 21, Nebraska 7 | OU History & Tradition

NORMAN |
One of the most interesting things to do after watching a Sooner game is to compare your opinion against the media. TV, radio, newspapers, internet -- it's amazing how many people make their living on post-game analysis.

Here's a chance to look at the game from a different perspective.

SoonerSports.com presents links to analysis, reaction and opinion from the national media and the opposing team. Much like our "Eye on the Opponent" series, this is a chance to catch a few things you might have missed...

Thompson was little short of brilliant as he calmly and masterfully directed an 11-play, 99-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter. Just when it looked like Nebraska had captured the momentum it needed by pinning the Sooners less than a yard from their own...
Tulsa World

Yes, it's Oklahoma. The Sooners are the second-best team in the nation, and if the system worked, they'd play Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game. Instead, it'll be Michigan or Florida. That's because the computers aren't being programmed to consider a mistake...
Houston Chronicle

Even when Nebraska receivers were open or about to catch crucial passes, OU defenders didn't stop hustling. Red-shirted Sooners finished off plays and made the hit instead of stopping short or giving anything less than 100 percent. This kind of effort level denied...
College Football News

About all that separated Oklahoma's offense from its own end zone and a world of trouble Saturday night were a couple of blades of grass. Nebraska's Blackshirt defenders, having the Sooners pinned as deep in their end of Arrowhead Stadium as humanly possible...
Austin American-Statesman

This has to rank as Bob Stoops' most satisfying of the four trophies, although this one doesn't lead to an appearance in the BCS national championship game. Oklahoma, 11-2, is headed to the Fiesta Bowl to meet Boise State. “The guys in that locker room are a special...
Kansas City Star

Nebraska played valiantly, but ultimately was doomed by the turnovers and its inability to capitalize on favorable field position not to mention the Husker defense's failure to put the squeeze on Oklahoma late in the third quarter when the Sooners were...
Lincoln Journal Star

"With this program, within this organization, we never doubted ourselves," Thompson said. "We never felt we were one step behind. ... Just the dedication that all these players have is something I've never seen before." The pro-Nebraska crowd that filled Arrowhead Stadium...
Dallas Morning Star

It was a night that showed a distinct separation between Sooner crimson and Cornhusker red, although from a distance the Oklahoma and Nebraska fans appeared to blend together into a boisterous collection of knit hats and blankets on Saturday night's running of the...
Muskogee Phoenix

The Sooner flanker did not make first-team All-Big 12. RECOUNT! Kelly was the best player on the field Saturday. He caught 10 passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns, and made three acrobatic catches in a game-turning 99-yard drive in the third quarter...
The Oklahoman

It was fitting that Oklahoma used a tenacious defensive effort and the longest scoring drive in the history of the Big 12 championship game to wrap up its most improbable conference championship. The Sooners, accustomed to doing things the hard way all season..
San Antonio Express-News

This morning, when I file my AP top-25 ballot, the Sooners will be my fourth team, and Bob Stoops will be my coach of the year. Ohio State's Jim Tressel is likely to sweep coach of the year awards this year. He'll deserve the accolades that come his way. But Stoops...
Kansas City Star

It was just like old times. Only this time when Oklahoma beat Nebraska in the final game of the year to win a conference title, they were given a trophy instead of showered with oranges. After a one year hiatus, the eighth-ranked Sooners (11-2) returned to the top...
College Football News

OU never trailed in the game and was on the verge of blowing the game open in the first quarter. Minutes later, Thompson hit Kelly for a 66-yard touchdown, giving the Sooners a 14-0 lead. It turned out to be enough. Nebraska's only retort was a gift. Thompson threw..
Norman Transcript

It was over when... Oklahoma caught Nebraska sleeping in the first quarter, scoring two quick touchdowns from which the Huskers were unable to recover. Gameball goes to... Paul Thompson. The senior QB changed positions and lost his Heisman candidate teammate...
ESPN

From the start, Oklahoma seemed to make the plays when it needed them. Its first touchdown came as a result of a forced fumble that was returned to Nebraska's 2-yard line. Allen Patrick quickly scored to give Oklahoma a 7-0 lead, and the Sooners never looked back...
Denver Post

Nebraska wasted no time running one of its patented trick plays Saturday, trying a reverse on the game-opening kickoff. Kenny Wilson pitched to Brandon Jackson coming around behind him. OU's Lewis Baker, however, held his ground and planted Jackson at the Husker...
Tulsa World

The reason the Huskers aren't on top of the league today and are on the short end of a 21-7 defeat is because they ran up against an Oklahoma team that had the eyes of a champion. In fact, when it mattered most during the second half in frigid Arrowhead Stadium...
Lincoln Journal Star

Oklahoma spent the year overcoming adversity and controversy, so it's sort of fitting that it won the Big 12 title game when things weren't working as well as expected. The ground game that was so dominant over the last several weeks never got on track against Nebraska...
College Football News

If there was one play that showed what Taylor tried so hard to do and what Oklahoma did so well to stop him it was the play that resulted in Oklahoma's second interception. Facing first and 10 at the Oklahoma 20, Taylor sent Nate Swift into the right corner...
Kansas City Star

Oklahoma won the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday night because it is better than Nebraska. Winning the Big 12 South was far more difficult than beating the Cornhuskers. Although Nebraska may be on its way back to the national spotlight, the Huskers...
Tulsa World

Nothing about this Big 12 championship came easily for the Oklahoma Sooners, from the preseason dismissal of the starting quarterback to the midseason loss of the star tailback to a broken collarbone. So it seemed only appropriate Saturday night in Arrowhead Stadium...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The frigid air, the frozen tundra. Nebraska. Oklahoma. Revived running attacks. Naturally, the two teams combined for 85 passes in Saturday night's Big 12 Conference championship game before 80,031 fans at Arrowhead Stadium. The difference in Oklahoma's 21-7 victory...
Lincoln Journal Star

Malcolm Kelly and No. 8 Oklahoma are heading to the desert on New Year's Day. Kelly had 10 catches for 142 yards and two touchdowns as the Sooners beat 19th-ranked rival Nebraska, 21-7, in the Big 12 Conference championship game at Arrowhead Stadium...
ESPN

At the most important moment of his college football career, Paul Thompson finally became a star. And Oklahoma is once again a BCS team. The Sooners' quarterback -- facing an unlikely, if not impossible, situation -- completed a pass and started a drive...
Tulsa World

“I was standing by the end zone, and it was clearly a touchdown (to Oklahoma's Malcolm Kelly). He got his foot down. Bill Callahan just stood on the sidelines waiting for the officials to review it ... then calling a timeout. ... It was a wasted timeout.” And that probably wasn't...
Kansas City Star

But only because of that instant-replay official who may supplant Texas Coach Mack Brown as the most hated man in Oklahoma. It was the official, remember, who cost the Sooners a victory over Oregon in September when he botched the ruling on an onside kick...
Los Angeles Times

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops had led the Sooners to a national championship, four 12-win seasons and five top-10 finishes. Three of his teams reached the BCS national championship game, and three different players from those teams finished second or better in...
Sports Illustrated

The Sooners are champions, the payoff in an eight-game winning streak that's pushed their record to 11-2 heading for a bowl matchup with Boise State. "We wanted it more," said OU cornerback Lendy Holmes. "We came together at the end. It's a great feeling...
The Oklahoman

Malcolm Kelly put his 6-foot-4, 217-pound body through a lot Saturday night. He twisted, turned, stretched and played a human Gumby for Oklahoma quarterback Paul Thompson. He put on a display that would make a yoga instructor proud. And how did Kelly...
Kansas City Star

There he was in his crimson jacket just outside Arrowhead Stadium, three hours before kickoff, waiting for his Oklahoma Sooners to battle Nebraska for the Big 12 championship. "I'm from Ponca City, but I coach high school basketball in Holcomb, way...
Tulsa World

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