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Revision as of 08:41, 6 September 2009

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The Sooners run onto the field for the first time in the 2007 season.

The 2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team (variously "Oklahoma", "OU", or the "Sooners") represents the University of Oklahoma in the college football season of 2009-2010. It was the 115th year of season play for the Sooners. The team was led by head coach Bob Stoops, a two-time Walter Camp Coach of the Year award winner, who has a contract lasting through the 2011 season.[1] They are led on offense by the 2008 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Sam Bradford, and played their homes games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.

Schedule

September 56:00 p.m.vs. No. 20 BYU*No. 3

ESPNL 13–14 75,437 September 126:00 p.m.Idaho State*

FSN PPV September 192:30 p.m.Tulsa*

  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK

FSN October 3Miami*

October 10Baylor

  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK

October 1711:00 a.m.Texas

ABC October 24TBAKansas

October 31TBAKansas State

  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK

November 7TBANebraska

November 14TBATexas A&M

  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK

November 21TBATexas Tech

November 28TBAOklahoma State

Template:CFB Schedule End

Roster

Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Sam Bradford returns for his junior year. He was one of four team captains for the 2009 squad.

Oklahoma listed 103 players on the roster with a breakdown of 21 seniors, 22 juniors, 22 sophomores, 14 redshirt freshmen, and 24 true freshmen.[2] Sam Bradford, Brody Eldridge, Gerald McCoy and Ryan Reynolds served as team captains for the 2009 squad.[3] Template:2009 Oklahoma Sooners football roster

See also: American football positions

Coaching staff

The coaching staff for the 2009 season were as follows:

Bob Stoops, head coach of Oklahoma.
Name Position Years
at OU
Bob Stoops Head Coach 11
Brent Venables Associate Head Coach
Defensive Coordinator
Linebackers		 11
Bobby Jack Wright Assistant Head Coach
Co-Defensive Coordinator
Defensive Backs		 11
Kevin R. Wilson Offensive Coordinator
Tight Ends/Fullbacks		 8
Jay Norvell Asst. Offensive Coord.
Wide Receivers		 2
Cale Gundy Recruiting Coordinator
Running Backs		 11
Josh Heupel Quarterbacks 5
James Patton Offensive Line 4
Jackie Shipp Defensive Line 11
Chris Wilson Special Teams Coord.
Defensive Ends		 5

Game notes

BYU

1 2 3 4 Total
#24 BYU Cougars 0
#3 Oklahoma Sooners 0
Cowboys Stadium, site of the Sooners' season opener.

The Sooners open the season on the road in the newly constructed Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas against the 24th ranked BYU Cougars (20th in the AP Poll[4]). Going into the game, Oklahoma was 10–1 in season openers and 9–2 in road openers under Bob Stoops.[5] This is only the second time these teams have faced each other. The previous time in the 1994 Copper Bowl when the top-25 ranked Cougars threw for 485 yards and defeated the Sooners 31–6.[6] The Cougars are led by fourth year head coach Bronco Mendenhall. Under coach Mendenhall, the Cougars have won 32 games and lost seven.[4] The Sooners, ranked number three in the preseason, are favored to win by a large margin with most estimates around 21 points.[7] BYU will earn approximately $1.5 million for playing the Sooners[4] while the Sooners will receive $2.25 million for playing in Dallas.[8]

Prior to the game, both teams experienced multiple personnel issues. On the BYU side, left tackle Matt Reynolds fractured a finder and is still questionable for the season opener. Starting guard Jason Speredon went down with a torn rotator cuff that ended his 2009 season. Freshman Houston Reynolds also experienced a season ending injury when he tore his ACL.[9] A few days prior to the game, All-American Jermaine Gresham injured his knee and will miss at least the first game.[10] Oklahoma saw several issues develop in their linebacker corp. Freshman Tom Wort tore his ACL during a Sooner practice and will miss the 2009 season. Senior Mike Balogun experienced issues of a legal matter when his eligibility was called into question and subsequently decertified to participate in the 2009 season by the NCAA. Balogun sued the NCAA and was granted a temporary restraining order so he could continue to practice.[11] He missed the season opener after he was unable to quickly resolve the issue with the NCAA.[12]

Idaho State

1 2 3 4 Total
Idaho State Bengals 0
Oklahoma Sooners 0

Idaho State serves as the 2009 home opener for the Oklahoma Sooners. The Bengals compete in the Big Sky Conference of the NCAA Division I-FCS (formerly I-AA). This will be the third time Oklahoma has played a Division I-FCS team under Stoops.[13] In those previous two matchups, Oklahoma is a combined 106–2.[14][15]

Tulsa

1 2 3 4 Total
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 0
Oklahoma Sooners 0
Sam Bradford looks for an open receiver during the Sooners 2007 game against Tulsa.

In a continuation of the instate series, Oklahoma hosts the Tulsa Golden Hurricane for the third game of the season. The two teams first faced each other in 1914 with the Sooners leading the series 15–7–1, however, since 1979 when the series was renewed following a 36 year hiatus, the Sooners are 9–1.[5][16]

Miami (FL)

1 2 3 4 Total
Oklahoma Sooners 0
Miami Hurricanes 0
The Sooner offense lines up against the Miami defense during their 2007 game.

Following the bye week, Oklahoma travels to Miami Gardens, Florida to play Miami. This is the final game in a two-game series that began in 2007 when the Hurricanes of the AAC visited Norman.[17] The Sooners soundly defeated Miami 51–13 after Bradford threw five touchdown passes and the Sooner defense limited Miami to 139 total yards.[18] The two teams have met six times total with the series split three games each.[19]

Rankings

2009 Big 12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
North Division
No. 14 Nebraska x   6 – 2     10 – 4  
Missouri   4 – 4     8 – 5  
Kansas State   4 – 4     6 – 6  
Iowa State   3 – 5     7 – 6  
Colorado   2 – 6     3 – 9  
Kansas   1 – 7     5 – 7  
South Division
No. 2 Texas x$   8 – 0     13 – 1  
Oklahoma State   6 – 2     9 – 4  
No. 21 Texas Tech   5 – 3     9 – 4  
Oklahoma   5 – 3     8 – 5  
Texas A&M   3 – 5     6 – 7  
Baylor   1 – 7     4 – 8  
Championship: Texas 13, Nebraska 12
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
See also: 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings
Ranking Movement
Poll Pre Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Wk 11 Wk 12 Wk 13 Wk 14 Wk 15 Final
AP 3
Coaches 3
Harris Not released
BCS Not released

See also

References

  1. ^ "Contract of Employment" (PDF). CoachesHotSeat.com. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  2. ^ "Football Roster". SoonerSports.com. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  3. ^ "Sooners Choose Captains". SoonerSports.com. 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b c Call, Jeff (2009-08-23). "BYU football: Holmoe jumped at the chance to play Oklahoma". Deseret News. Retrieved 2009-08-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b Steele, Phil (2009). "Oklahoma Sooners". Phil Steele's 2009 College Football Preview. 15: 84–85.
  6. ^ "1994 Oklahoma vs. BYU Football Box Score". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-08-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ^ "Las Vegas Line Movements: Brigham Young Cougars @ Oklahoma Sooners". VegasInsider.com. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
  8. ^ "OU's Stoops not interested in more neutral-site games". The Dallas Morning News. The Associated Press. 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Griffin, Tim (2009-08-24). "BYU not leery about season opener against Oklahoma". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2009-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Schad, Joe (2009-09-03). "OU tight end suffers knee injury". ESPN. Retrieved 2009-09-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  11. ^ Griffin, Tim (2009-08-21). "Sooners LB Wort has torn ACL". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2009-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Hoover, John (2009-09-01). "Balogun won't play in opener". Tulsa World. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Non Division I-A Football Series". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
  14. ^ "Chattanooga Football Series". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
  15. ^ "Indiana State Football Series". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
  16. ^ "Tulsa Football Series". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
  17. ^ "'Canes, Sooners to face off in 2007, 2009". ESPN. The Associted Press. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Oklahoma blows away Hurricanes in renewal of rivalry". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Sports Network. 2007-09-08. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Miami (FL) Football Series". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
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