In the secondary, it’s D.J. Wolfe and Chijioke Onyenegecha at the corners and Lewis Baker and Darien Williams at the safeties. True freshman Nic Harris will come in for the nickel packages.

Two stars return on defense: Dusty Dvoracek and Rufus Alexander. And Dvoracek, still coming back from surgery to repair a torn biceps, is not yet starting.

Two stars returns on offense: Davin Joseph and Adrian Peterson.

Unless you count J.D. Runnels and Travis Wilson, but it’s hard to call a guy who touches the ball so rarely, or one who’s never been a No. 1 receiver, a star. Really good players, sure. But not yet stars.

Question marks?

They’re everywhere.

Not that it’s a bad thing.

Anticipation, in many endeavors, is half the fun.

“I’m ready to find out. This is my last go round,” offensive lineman Kelvin Chaisson said. “Like half the freshmen, I can’t remember their names.”

But he’ll learn them, because about half the freshmen will be playing; so many that after Stoops listed about seven, he needed assistance.

“Who else?” he said to the media. “Help me out.”

The Sooners enter the season ranked No. 7 by the Associated Press, which even without BCS input, remains the most respected poll in the nation (at least as long as Terry Bradshaw and Gene Bartow vote in the Harris Poll).

Nothing wrong with No. 7.

OU could win every game. Or it could lose two or three.

And seventh is none too far back to approach the top as others drop.