* All eyes this year are going to be on Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley, handed the keys to the Big 12’s Cadillac program in stunning fashion earlier this summer when Bob Stoops announced his retirement on Wednesday, June 7.
Riley’s football background includes stops at Texas Tech and East Carolina before Stoops hired him as OU’s offensive coordinator in 2015.
Riley admitted Monday that it has been a whirlwind process for him since June.
“Tough to describe kind of all the emotions that went into that day and that decision and still a little bit of a dream to me,” Riley said.