ASSOCIATED PRESS: The combination of Landry Jones and Ryan Broyles was almost unstoppable for Oklahoma.  And while the Sooners’ steely defense couldn’t quite stop Toby Gerhart, yards were hard to come by for the Heisman Trophy runner-up.  Broyles set a Sun Bowl record with three touchdown receptions, Jones passed for 418 yards and Oklahoma slowed Gerhart just enough to beat No. 19 Stanford 31-27 on Thursday.  “It was a total business trip,” said Jones, who completed 30 of 51 with one interception. “We were coming down here to take care of business. The game plan, the way we prepared, it was really good this week.”

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This is certainly one of the more attractive bowl games of the holiday season. A stout defense against a

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ARLINGTON – Houston Nutt stands among his players in the tunnel before games, the coach in the navy Ole Miss jacket often sporting a playful expression that shows he’s just as eager as the kids wearing helmets.  Then he walks onto the field with them. But no one should call this walking. That wouldn’t quite give justice to the way Nutt moves, or to the way he coaches football.

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Just weeks after Mark Mangino resigned from KU due to reports of mis-treatment of his players, now we receive reports that Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach has been suspended from coaching the Alamo Bowl in order for Tech to investigate similar complaints about treatment of football players, specifically one Adam James, son of ESPN/ABC analyst Craig James.

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John Davis, Associated Press: Ole Miss defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix doesn’t mince words or give out too many compliments, so when he says a player and a team has ability, he means it.  Nix had more than a few positive things to say about Oklahoma State senior quarterback Zac Robinson and the Cowboys’ offense and how his team will have to play well to stop them during the upcoming AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic.  Robinson has had a stellar career heading into this year’s game. He has passed for 8,199 yards in his career, a mark that tops his coach Mike Gundy, and accounted for 10,048 total yards, a mark that not only ranks him first in school history but eighth in Big 12 history.

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We all follow giant footprints in this life.

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ESPN reported last night that Urban Meyer had resigned from his head coaching duties at Florida due to health reasons.  Today, we learn that Meyer may be backing off that statement, instead opting for a leave of absence rather than leaving the team completely.  If Meyer did/does in face leave, speculation has already started that Bob Stoops would be a candidate to lead the Gators.  Stoops was a defensive coordinator with the Gators in the mid-90’s and is supposedly still “loved” by Gator Nation and he in turn loved his time at Florida.

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When your team is winning, everything is good. Small issues are brushed aside, minor differences are considered to be ‘unimportant’.  Winning cures everything for a team.  But losing, or not living up to a team’s expectations, can cause minor problems to develop into major problems.  Such may be the case with the current version of the Oklahoma Sooners men’s hoops team.

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OKLAHOMA CITY: Long story short, Sooners fall badly to UTEP and the Cowboys power past La Salle to move to 10-1. Somehow the Cowboys are awarded the All-College Championship trophy. So what would have happened if OU and OSU both won? What about UTEP? Do they get a trophy for beating OU to a pulp? Confusing…  By the way, watch out for those UTEP Minors come NCAA Tourney time.  That’s a dangerously athletic team and could present major problems.

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Former Oklahoma offensive coordinator Chuck Long will return to the Big 12 as the new Kansas offensive coordinator under coach Turner Gill.  Long formerly was the head coach at San Diego State, but was released from his coaching duties there in 2008.  Gill was named the new Jayhawk head coach this past week after former coach Mark Mangino resigned.

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Ole Miss defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix will stay with the Rebels despite being courted by Florida over the past week.  “I’m happy to be a Rebel,” he said.  Nix, who is currently in the first year of a three-year contract that pays $350,000 annually, will receive a raise according to coach Houston Nutt.  The amount of the raise hasn’t been finalized.  Nutt said he wasn’t surprised Florida targeted Nix. The position came open after Charlie Strong left the Gators for the head coaching job at Louisville.  “It’s a credit to him and how good of a coach he is,” Nutt said. “But he loves the people he’s working with here and that’s key. I’ll be glad when all these jobs (around the country) are filled because they keep coming after him.

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From NewsOK.com: Landry Jones will likely be the presumptive starting quarterback next football season for Oklahoma. That could change if he were to suffer an injury in the spring or perform poorly.  Drew Allen redshirted as a freshman this season and would be the likely candidate to enter spring practice next March as the No. 2 quarterback.  One quarterback who will not compete for the job in the spring is Blake Bell. He will not enroll early at OU, according to Bell’s coach, Alan Schuckman, of Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita, Kan. Bell will enroll for the 2010 fall semester.

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