Site—Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo.
Kickoff—11:30 a.m. MDT.
TV—FSN (Joel Meyers play-by-play, Dave Lapham analyst, Jim Knox sideline).
Records—Oklahoma (4-0), Colorado (2-2)
Coaches—Oklahoma, Bob Stoops (90-19 at OU), Colorado, Dan Hawkins (96-35-1 career, 4-12 at CU).
Last Meeting—Oklahoma won 24-3 last season.
Series—Oklahoma leads 39-16-2.
Key Players—OU QB Sam Bradford is second nationally in passing efficiency … Sooners RB DeMarco Murray is scoring 13.5 points a game. … Oklahoma WR Juaquin Iglesias is averaging 111 yards receiving and 181.8 all-purpose yards. … OU TEs Joe Jon Finley (6-6, 261) and Jermaine Gresham (6-5, 263) have combined for four TDs in four games, matching the TE output for all of 2006. … OU’s offensive line averages 6-foot-5 and 322.4 pounds, a big reason the Sooners have surrendered just two sacks so far. … Buffs ILB Jordon Dizon leads the nation in tackling with 56 stops. … ILB Michael Sipili was suspended for the semester by the university for his involvement in an offseason fight. He had been scheduled to return to the lineup last week. Starting in his spot Saturday is ILB Jeff Smart, who was a walk-on in 2005 and was recently awarded a scholarship. …
Extra Points—It is homecoming at Colorado. … Four different Sooners have a rush of 41 yards or longer. … OU is in the middle of three straight road games: at Tulsa, Colorado and Texas. The Longhorns game is in Dallas next week. That hasn’t happened under Stoops since 1999 when the Sooners played at Louisville, Notre Dame and Texas. … Oklahoma is 6-1 in Big 12 openers under Stoops. … This is the first daylight kickoff between these teams since 2002. … Colorado is coming off a 42-0 shutout of Miami (Ohio), the school’s first whitewash in two years. … The last time CU played three straight at home was in 1998. … G Kai Maiava and T Ryan Miller are the fourth and fifth O-Linemen to play for the Buffs in the last 15 years. … The Buffs had a 386-yard improvement in rushing from its Florida State fiasco to the Miami (Ohio game).
