Oklahoma resurrects, beats Michigan, as Brent Venables turns down heat

Looking for a College Football Playoff sleeper? Consider Oklahoma, after its takedown of Michigan.

Oklahoma's defense delivers an effort reminiscent of how Brent Venables' defenses played at Clemson.

John Mateer helps revive Sooners' offense with daring throws and dogged runs.

NORMAN, OK – Here inside the Palace on the Prairie, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain, takes place one of college football’s most iconic traditions .

Two gorgeous white ponies, named “Boomer” and “Sooner,” pull a prairie schooner across the field whenever the home team scores. And in Oklahoma’s heyday, when the points came aplenty, those ponies better have been well fed and hydrated, because they cruised that wagon across the field like it was their personal play pen.

Then, the points dried up, the