That's what Oklahoma was saying. The unfortunate thing is that midwestern teams, even Ohio State, lapse into predictability. That's why they steer clear of playing the "speed" teams of the WAC and Mountain West.
Besides being able to recruit the top quarterbacks and running backs from high school, the big schools also have another huge advangage --- they get the behemoth linemen. Does anyone know the stats of the weight of the Oklahoma and Boise State lines? I would expect that Oklahoma outweighed them by 30 pounds a man. As surprising as anything is how well Boise State did in the trenches.