But style points - not just winning, but winning by a lot - is all Stoops' Oklahoma Sooners have left the next two weeks.
OU must win, and must look good doing it.
The Sooners (8-1) come out of their second open date of the season needing to impress voters this week at Baylor and next week against Iowa State. Any slipup, any close game, any fourth-quarter garbage-time scores allowed, could be costly.
Unseemly, yes. But that's the way the Bowl Championship Series system works. And if OU is to fulfill its widely stated goal of winning the program's eighth national championship, that's what the Sooners will have to do.
An idle weekend caused Oklahoma to lose ground to Oregon in Sunday's BCS standings. The
Ducks crushed previously unbeaten and No. 4
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