The OU offense should be one of the best in the nation, led by Heisman candidates in quarterback Landry Jones (the second favorite at 13/2) and WR Ryan Broyles. Jones led the nation in completions (405) while placing second in passing yards (4,718) and TD tosses (38) and third in total offense (327.9 ypg) in 2010. Broyles caught 131 balls — the eighth-most in NCAA history — for 1,622 yards and 14 touchdowns last season. En route, he broke school records for most receptions in a game, season and career. He is the career active NCAA leader in catches (266), receiving yards (3,429) and touchdown grabs (35). The offense did lose to RB DeMarco Murray, but has a stable of talented backs led by Roy Finch. But multiple guys will carry the ball. Overall eight starters are back.

The defense welcomes six starters back – 13 players who started at least one game last year — but did suffer a hit early in fall camp. Linebacker Travis Lewis, the Preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and OU’s leading tackler the past three seasons, broke a bone in his left foot and may not get back until the Oct. 8 Red River Rivalry with Texas. If Lewis is out eight weeks as projected, he would miss Oklahoma's first four games — including a Sept. 17 trip to preseason Top-10 team Florida State and a Sept. 24 rematch against Missouri, which beat the Sooners last season to knock them out of the top spot in the BCS standings. Plus OU lost starting middle linebacker Austin Box, who died in mid-May. Still, Stoops thinks this could be one of his best defenses because of the tremendous depth.

OU opens the season Sept. 3 vs. Tulsa and has an over/under win total of 10 on Bodog.

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