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Two of a Kind: Jason White remembers what it was like to go through Heisman process with teammate

NORMAN — Standing in a New York City hotel room in December 2004, Adrian Peterson picked up the phone to call Jason White.

The two Oklahoma teammates were in the big city for the biggest weekend of their lives, and Peterson wasn't sure what to wear to one of the Heisman weekend events.

Luckily for Peterson, White had already navigated all of those waters a year earlier when he won the 2003 Heisman Trophy.

“Those were the things that I was having issues with the year before,” White said. “It was like ‘Holy cow, am I supposed to wear a tie to this event?