The Oklahoma Sooners
The Oklahoma Sooners are the best team in College Football headed into the 2011 season. In a sport full of turnover, Bob Stoops bring back the most starters in key positions. Landry Jones returns for his third season and has a full compliment of veteran receivers, led by All-American Ryan Broyles.

As a stats company, you would think we would be lowering OU’s stock with the loss of running back DeMarco Murray. During his four years in Norman, Murray accounted for 65 total touchdowns and 5,256 yards of total offense. Lost in those statistics is that Murray’s career was defined by injury and never living up to the potential he showed during his freshman year. In his wake, the Sooners will feature Roy Finch as their running back, who gives the Sooners offense a higher per carry average while providing the true home run threat Murray never became.

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Big XII Title Hopes
Along with Colorado and Nebraska leaving the Big XII, so does the Dr. Pepper Big XII Championship game. Without playing an additional game against a quality opponent, the new round robin format will gives Oklahoma a stronger chance at winning the Conference.

According to TheGreek.com, the Oklahoma Sooners are a clear favorite to win the Big XII with odds at –250. The return of 40-cents on the dollar doesn’t give future player’s good value, but it certainly does give them the best team.

According to our pre-season simulations, Oklahoma will be favorites in all of their nine conference games. They will are better than 80-percent favorites in six of those games (Missouri, @Kansas, Texas Tech, @Kansas State, Texas A&M, @Baylor and Iowa State). Despite their strong brand, Texas is still a team without an identity Oklahoma should be close to a 70-percent favorite against the Longhorns when they play October 8th at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.

The Sooners will be about an even coin flip when they go back to Stillwater to play Oklahoma State. Due to the reshuffling of the new Big XII, OU will play back-to-back years in Boone Pickens Stadium.

Oklahoma will also be slight favorites when they travel to Tallahassee to play ACC favorites, the Florida State Seminoles. When you combine their slim margins in projections at Florida State and Oklahoma State, our pre-season simulations due show the Sooners are probable to lose one game this year (it should be noted that AccuScore projects no team to go undefeated).

Nevertheless, Oklahoma is the class of the Big XII and finishes with the fewest in conference losses by one-and-a-half games. If you are a chalk player who wants to take a team with lots of returning starters, a tough but beatable schedule and a slim amount of variables, we recommend that you take Oklahoma –250.

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