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Yahoo Sports: Oklahoma’s got the hype, but does it have the defense to live up to it?

Part of Big 12 Week. It might make for an interesting experiment, anyway, but the fact is if you went to the trouble of rounding everyone who's voted Oklahoma No. 1 this preseason — the magazines, the pundits, the coaches in the all-important USA Today poll — and asked them to produce a summary of the Sooners' BCS championship credentials, you'd probably get four words back, max: It's the offense, stupid. So it is. Quarterback Landry Jones has started 21 consecutive games, won 17 of them and last year went off for 300 yards and multiple touchdowns passing in nine ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: