Tempo Changes, but Not the Tune

Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops doesn't want outsiders to get the wrong impression. This isn't a half-baked reaction to a whim of sudden doubt. The Sooners' new no-huddle wrinkle represents a necessary adjustment to enhance his program in a college football landscape that suddenly finds itself too much in a haste to tap its wristwatch.

Yet don't dare assume he's ripping out an established foundation and constructing anew.

'I think some people have the misconception that we changed our offense,' said Stoops, who is entering his 10th season in Norman. 'If we had, there would have been a lot of planning involved with it. But we're not changing our offense.