Bob Stoops knows as much as just about anyone when it comes to playing for national championships. The legendary OU football coach led the Sooners to the national title game four times during his career, so there’s no one better to talk about Monday’s national championship game between Michigan and Washington. Stoops shared his approach to title games, his impressions of the Wolverines and Huskies as well as his memories of OU lineman turned Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore. All that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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The transfer portal and NFL opt outs always make for some uncertainty during bowl season, but at Texas A&M, there’s still a question about who will coach the Aggies in the Texas Bowl against Oklahoma State. It’s a whole lot of craziness in Aggieland, but there’s no one better to navigate through it than Texas Ags columnist Olin Buchanan. He’s covered Texas A&M football for decades, and he joined me to talk about the firing of Jimbo Fisher, the hiring of Mike Elko and oh, yeah, the bowl game against the Cowboys. All that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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Rickey Hunt Jr. admits he was disappointed about how his freshman season went at Ohio. The running back from Millwood High School didn’t get nearly as many carries as he’d hoped. But when Ohio lost its top two tailbacks to the transfer portal, Hunt got the opportunity he’d been waiting for — and he took full advantage of it. Hunt talks about his record-setting day in the Myrtle Beach Bowl, what it was like scoring his first collegiate touchdown (then scoring four more) and how his time at Millwood helped prepare him for the opportunity. All that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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Courtney Wages grew up in a super-competitive, sports-loving family in Midwest City. She played five sports. Her brother played a bunch, too. Her uncle, AJ Hinch, has been in Major League Baseball for years. But when Wages started college at Wichita State, her competitiveness was turned in an unexpected direction: pageants. Earlier this year, she was named Miss Kansas, and next month, she will vie for the title of Miss America. Wages joins me to talk about all that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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Bill Hancock has been one of the most powerful people in college athletics, leading the men’s Final Four, the BCS and now the College Football Playoff. But as the Oklahoma native prepares to retire, he and the playoff are embroiled in controversy over their decision to leave Florida State out of the four-team field. Hancock talks about what selection weekend was like and what he saw inside the committee room as well as reflecting on his five decades of college athletics administration. All of that and much more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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If you want to talk Texas football, there’s no one better than Kirk Bohls and Cedric Golden. They have covered the Longhorns for a combined 75 years as sports columnists at the Austin American Statesman. They joined me this week to talk about how this Texas team compares to other good Longhorn squads of recent years, how Steve Sarkisian has built the program back into a nation contender and what Texas needs to do in the Big 12 Championship Game to reverse a losing trend against OSU. All of that and much more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

(01:10) How good is this Texas bunch compared to the Vince Young or Colt McCoy years?
(03:51) Why has the Texas run defense been so good?
(05:25) Does Ollie Gordon remind you of any Texas running backs of yesteryear?
(09:30) What have been the biggest factors for Steve Sarkisian to turn around the program?
(14:32) Why did Kirk Bohls pick the Longhorns to go 11-1 before the season began?
(16:39) What does the College Football Playoff selection committee do with Texas if it wins the Big 12 title?
(18:50) Does Texas seem like a team that could do well in the playoff?
(21:03) What if Texas and Alabama both win Saturday? What does the committee do?
(22:32) What does Texas need to do to beat OSU for the first time in the Sark era?
(26:04) What is the vibe among Longhorn fans?

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David Holt has been talking about Oklahoma City needing a new downtown arena for more than two years. Now that a vote is less than a month away, the Oklahoma City mayor pulls the curtain back on how negotiations with the Thunder led to this plan, why the team gave $50 million and what he makes of people concerned about that amount. (Hint: Holt thinks it’s a good idea to look at how much teams in Memphis and New Orleans gave for their arenas, not teams in San Francisco and Detroit.) Holt talks about all that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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Wren Baker grew up in small-town Oklahoma, and even though sports were a big deal in Valliant, he didn’t play in high school. He focused on academics in the hopes of getting a full-ride college scholarship. It worked, but while he was at Southeastern Oklahoma State, the decision to take a class about coaching basketball changed Baker’s career path. Now, he’s the athletic director at West Virginia. He talks about his journey as well as an interesting first year in Morgantown. (He decided not to fire the football coach, which was a good call, but then he fired the men’s basketball coach, which was a necessary call.) Baker talks about all of that and more on The Jenni Carlson Show.

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Bedlam week is always big for Sam Mayes, but this one was like no other for the former Oklahoma State offensive lineman. He spent four days in the hospital. When he found out he was being discharged Thursday, though, he wanted to do a podcast. I was more than happy to oblige. Sam provided an update on what happened and how he’s feeling, then shared all sorts of great Bedlam memories. After OSU beat OU in 2001, Sam said the party in Stillwater when the team returned from Norman was unlike anything he’s ever experienced. And the domination of the Sooners in 2002? Sam knew after the first two plays that the Cowboys could win by 50. He talks about all that and more on a special edition of The Jenni Carlson Show.

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No Oklahoma State player left a bigger mark on Bedlam than Rashaun Woods. The Cowboy legend had The Catch that beat the Sooners in 2001 — 16-13, anyone? — then in 2002, he had one of the most dominant individual performances in the rivalry’s history. Check out these numbers: 12 catches, 226 yards, three touchdowns. Woods shares his memories of those games as well as the impact he believes the OSU teams from that era have on the program today. Plus, he dishes on his new job as the head football coach at Tyler High School in Texas.

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