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OU vs. ND – something special to happen

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A win on Saturday will give Bob Stoops 145 victories as the coach of the Sooners.

He will tie legendary coach Bud Wilkinson with a win.

Ironically, if the Sooners come out victorious, it will come against the football program that left the mark on the most significant period of Oklahoma football — the Wilkinson-coached 47 game win streak that ended with a 7-0 lost to Notre Dame and became the NCAA record that has withstood two lifetimes.

In one sense this game between No. 5 Notre Dame and No. 7 Oklahoma stands for more than an early playoff game between contenders hoping to propel themselves into a national championship race in 2012.

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It’s time for Sooner leader to emerge

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Two things come to mind going into Saturday’s OU-Kansas State game:

1) This is a game where leadership needs to emerge; and 2) this is a game where fan support needs to go nuts.

A combination of those two should bring a big fat win for the No. 5 Sooners and propel them nicely into the conference schedule and the national championship discussion.

In the past Oklahoma has stepped up when needed on both fronts.

Remember the 2008 Texas Tech game? That was the last time Coach Bob Stoops called out the fans to go crazy at Owen Field. And they did – to the tune of “Jump Around.”

And the team, then also ranked No. 5, showed up to put a 65-21 trouncing on the then No. 2 ranked Red Raiders.

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