You can complain about Stoops and his coaching in many ways but his out-of-conference scheduling shouldn't be faulted.

I don't think we've ever played Valdosta State and although occasionally we've had drop outs and had to fill with cupcakes, OU's strength of OOC opponents
have regularly bested most top twenty competitors. Plus, we've been willing to play OOC opponents on the road, or home and homes, something you are
want to find in the SEC.

In Stoops 11 years of in season scheduling OU has played:
Alabama twice (winning both)
Oregon twice (split)
Notre Dame twice (won first one)
North Carolina (Julius Peppers team)
UCLA (split)
TCU twice (split)
Miami of Florida twice (split)
Cincinnati twice (won both)
Louisville
Washington twice
Air Force twice
South Florida (Big East winner)
Fresno State
Florida State twice (won both)
BYU (lost)


The only local cups we kept playing were UTEP (3 times), North Texas (3 times) and Tulsa (5 times) who we had
coaching connections with, fans living near there and in some circles, these were considered good teams.

Criticize Stoops for other things but on Strength of Schedule, considering in most years the Big 12 was pretty
competitive, you can't knock him. It's the reason many of his teams were in BCS bowls, if not the championship
games.

Actually lost to Notre Dame first game, will play second later this season.

I remember that. I stand corrected.
But the point still is we played at least 2 big time games or teams OOC per year.
Check some other schedules of top ten teams over the past 11 years and I doubt you
find that kind of average.

This is totally off subject but I couldn't not post this!

The Pride of Oklahoma singing the OU Chant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNizDmd1RPw
Hauntingly beautiful!