Oklahoma announces itself as playoff contender in thumping of Michigan

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 losses mounted, and the Sooner Schooner could have had a broken axle for as little as it moved last season, and the ponies might as well have been out to pasture.

The wagon’s rolling again, after an offseason overhaul inside Oklahoma’s program came to fruition in the Sooners