Role Reversal for Sooners and Cowboys

Four years ago the Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State Cowboys invaded the Valley of the Sun to participate in the Insight & Fiesta Bowls. Fast forward to 2011/12 and once again the Orange and black as well as the crimson and cream cover the greater Phoenix landscape. But this time, the Sooners played in the Insight and the Cowboys in the Fiesta. Unfamiliar roles indeed, as the Sooners have been BCS regulars while the Cowboys have been mired in lower tier bowls. But could the Cowboys find the elusive Fiesta win the Sooners were denied? Even Oklahoma State booster extraordinaire T. Boone Pickens commented that the rise of his Cowboys was two years earlier than even he thought. The Insight scoring was started the same way a lot of Oklahoma scoring was all year. Quarterback Landry Jones would lead his team downfield and then once in the red zone back up quarterback Blake Bell would get the nod for the score and the Sooners would lead the Iowa Hawkeyes 7-0 after the first ...