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Stoops stays out of expansion talk

With Oklahoma opening the season against Houston, the attention on the game isn’t just on one of the biggest games of the first weekend of the season but on the Cougars’ chance to be added into the Big 12.

But Sooners coach Bob Stoops has stayed out of the fray, deferring to OU President David Boren on the subject.

He did it again this week.

“Oh, that’d be great wouldn’t it?” Stoops said when asked his opinion on the subject. “You think that’d be distracting next week? Yeah.