Maybe the outcome made Oklahoma better. Maybe it wouldn't have mattered that game officials incorrectly ruled Oregon had recovered an onside kick that allowed the Ducks to produce a game-winning score against the Sooners.

But at 10-2 entering Saturday's Big 12 Championship Game, the Sooners have a right to wonder whether they should be in the hunt for a national title.

“It’s definitely kind of upsetting when you look back at what we’ve done in our schedule and where we could be at right now,” said quarterback Paul Thompson.

Save for its initial and understandable reaction of frustration, coach Bob Stoops’ club has done an admirable job of moving past that experience.

“It doesn’t do me any good to (think of that game),” Stoops said. “For me to sit there and dwell on it just takes away from what we’re trying to do right now, and I can’t do that. It's pretty obvious what the situation was, but for me to do it, no, I don’t spend any energy with it.”

THERE IS NO PENALTY: In the seven games since being penalized 11 times in its loss to Texas, OU has drawn just 27 flags.

0-2-4-6?: The Sooners have won all three of their Big 12 championships during this decade’s even-numbered years.

ROLL SOONERS ROLL: Oklahoma has an NCAA-best 29 10-win seasons. That’s one more than Alabama.

QUOTABLE: “It’s strange. You’d like to think sometimes that life isn’t fair. It is kind of nice that we got to this after all the hard work and the situations we’ve gone through.” — Junior fullback Dane Zaslaw, on the Sooners making the Big 12 championship thanks to Texas losing its last two games.