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Mel's Matchups: Week 7

By Mel Kiper Jr.
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 15, 2009

This year's edition of the rivalry between the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns is more than a battle between two of the possible participants in the BCS Championship Game; it is a referendum on top-level talent heading for the spring's NFL draft. Consider that this past spring, nine participants in last year's game got drafted -- and that number could have been considerably higher. Both quarterbacks, Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy, could have taken off, as could have Jermaine Gresham and Tr ...

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