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By Lou Somogyi
'Bye' The Numbers
How many times has it been said,
"Give Nick Saban, or Urban Meyer, extra time to prepare, and they will use
that to their advantage to beat you"?
Bob Stoops and his Oklahoma staff
will have that supposed edge against
Notre Dame by coming off a bye week
Sept. 21.
With a career record of 152-37 (.804
winning percentage) in 15 seasons at
Oklahoma, eight Bowl Championship
Series bids, four appearances in the
BCS National Championship Game
and a national title in just his second
season with the Sooners (2000), Stoops
has earned the right to be ranked
among the handful of current elite
Football Bowl Subdivision coaches.
It speaks to the job he has done
when back-to-back 10-3 seasons the
past two years are deemed as disappointments and evidence that his best
days might be behind him, similar to
Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, who owns a career mark of 12-3 after bye weeks, had an extra week to
prepare for Notre Dame.
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