{"id":4519,"date":"2011-12-04T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2011-12-04T22:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:45:23","slug":"sooners-set-to-play-stoops-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4519","title":{"rendered":"Sooners set to play Stoops&#8217; alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4520\" title=\"220px-InsightBowlLogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/220px-InsightBowlLogo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Oklahoma will play<\/strong> Coach Bob Stoops&#8217; alma mater Iowa in the Insight Bowl in Tempe on December 30. The two schools accepted invitations to the bowl at Sun Devil Stadium. Kickoff will be at 8 pm Mountain Time (9 pm Central).<\/p>\n<p>The Sooners dropped to No. 14 in the BCS after the loss to Oklahoma State. They are ranked No. 19 in the Coache&#8217;s Poll. The Sooners will make their 45th bowl appearance and have played the Hawkeyes one time in program history, a 21-6 win on Sept. 15, 1979, in a game that saw current Stoops play as a freshman defensive back for the Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma (9-3, 6-3) finished the season fourth in the Big 12 while Iowa (7-5, 4-4) finished fourth in the Legends division of the Big 10.<\/p>\n<p>The game marks OU&#8217;s second appearance in the Insight Bowl (previously called the Copper Bowl) and Iowa&#8217;s second consecutive trip to the bowl. The Hawkeyes defeated Big 12 representative Missouri 27-24 in the 2010 edition of the game. Oklahoma lost 31-6 to BYU in 1994 in Coach Gary Gibbs&#8217; last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma will play Coach Bob Stoops&#8217; alma mater Iowa in the Insight Bowl in Tempe on December 30. The two schools accepted invitations to the bowl at Sun Devil Stadium. Kickoff will be at 8 pm Mountain Time (9 pm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gameday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}