The buzz is already palpable.

Sam Bradford said he was hearing it on the way to class and he was feeling it at practice.

“Yesterday, I just felt like there was probably as much energy as we’ve ever had at a Monday practice,” he said.

Why not?

There’s a conference and national title at stake, not to mention the winning quarterback figures to become the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, not to mention the guy coaching on the visiting sideline, Mike Leach, was the guy who first got the offensive ball rolling in the Stoops era.

Then you’ve got Stoops himself hitting the crowd over the head for past vows of silence.

It doesn’t happen every day.

It has never happened before.

Clay Horning

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