One has to wonder who would be starting at quarterback if Tommy Grady hadn’t elected to transfer to Utah in August.

Grady was expected to compete with Bomar and Paul Thompson for the starting job, but was left on the outside looking in when he had to take an intercession class and missed preseason practices.

“I’m not much on looking back on what might have been,” Stoops said. “I will say all along we had confidence in Tommy. As I said last week, we never had a pecking order coming into the season. Even though the media did, that wasn’t us, because we saw the potential in him.

“That situation’s done and these guys are good guys. We’ve got to continue to work with them in better ways, and they have to continue to stay positive and work, too.”

Taking the heat

The offensive line took a lot of criticism for OU’s season-opening loss to TCU. The unit played better against Tulsa.

Center Chris Chester was asked if the criticism had anything to do with the offensive line playing better against the Golden Hurricane.

“We take this all in stride as a team because we know that if there is one thing wrong with the offense, then we all play a part in it,” Chester said. “We know that we all have our part to play in order for everything to work.”

Underdogs

The Sooners are already seven-point underdogs to the Bruins, a rare position for OU.

Running back Kejuan Jones said there’s an upside to the situation.

“Being the underdog is helping a little this year because people know we aren’t going to come out and blow teams out every game,” he said. “We know that we have to play four quarters, so it kind of feels good to be the underdog … To be able to come out and sneak up on teams now is going to be pretty exciting.”