If they get win today, OU can become champs again
Breaking down the Sooners

STILLWATER — After a payroll scandal cost them a quarterback and a replay fiasco cost them a ballgame and a broken collarbone cost them a franchise tailback, a little manna fell for the Oklahoma football Sooners.

Texas A&M beat Texas on Friday by the leather-helmet score of 12-7, and suddenly Bedlam has gone BEDLAM.

An already-spicy series received a serious injection of gusto Friday. Stakes already were high for today's 101st gridiron meeting of Oklahoma State and OU. Courtesy of A&M, this game now becomes a trophy hunt.

The Sooners, the star-crossed, starless Sooners, are playing for a spot in the Big 12 championship game. And the Cowboys, wi