Damn, I didn't know this thread was here....
OU Sooners fan here.... OU is known in the regional and national recruiting scene a program that makes it's living keeping a good majority of their good in-state players while getting the hungry, diamond in the rough players from Texas that the Longhorns pass over every season. Right now OU has a California pipeline that they are eating well from and they pick up very good skill players from schools in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. OU has had a rough recruiting season this year but has managed to find some good pieces, especially on the defensive side of the ball, a sleeper OL from JUCO and as always, a stable of WR's. I believe OU is in the top 20 for recruiting this year, which doesn't bother us a bit because we leave the recruiting titles to legendary Texas Longhorn coach Mack Brown AKA Coach February who is past the hot seat... he's on about to go on the rotisserie.... He has completely lost control of recruiting in Texas to A&M and is another OU blow out away(5 +40) from being run out of Austin.
Beyond total collapse, OU should win the Big XII outright because we generally have the best athletes in the conference, but we just gotta get some consistency going. Our toughest games this season will probably be TCU, Baylor and OSU. KSU's season was an anomaly even though they are well coached by Snyder, they and WVU have to completely rebuild on offense(WV on offense and defense.... lol). Expecting another Texas blow out at the Cotton Bowl that will be over by halftime(as always) and the end of Mack brown at Texas.
Thanks for that Lancaster pipeline....