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Stoops' industrial-grade filter weeds out irrelevant matter

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Sunday, January 4, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Bob Stoops is cranky. He has been cranky for a few weeks now. Oklahoma reached the FedEx BCS National Championship Game instead of Texas, the team that beat the Sooners and finished the regular season with an identical 11-1 record. Stoops did not enjoy having to campaign for the right to play for the crystal football. He believes that you play the game under the rules and you accept the result. The BCS format selected Oklahoma, not Texas, and that should be that. It w ...

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