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FORT WORTH, Texas -- ?? While Oklahoma gets a fresh start in pursuit of its 10th Big 12 title, coach Bob Stoops doesnt expect the Sooners to have to change their focus after two September losses pretty much ended their playoff hopes.We havent performed as well as we need to, Stoops said. But to say, all of a sudden, Oh, now were going to get focused and try harder, I dont believe that. Our guys have been working hard. We need to execute better, I get that, but guys have been putting in the effort ahead of this.The Sooners (1-2) play their Big 12 opener Saturday at No. 21 TCU after their early losses to second-ranked Ohio State and sixth-ranked Houston.The morale is great, Oklahoma receiver Mark Andrews said.In the same media preseason poll that had Oklahoma as the Big 12 favorite, the Horned Frogs (3-1, 1-0 Big 12) were picked to finish second.While TCU gained national attention with a 2005 season-opening win at then-No. 7 Oklahoma while in the Mountain West Conference, this will be the fifth Big 12 meeting between the two schools. The Sooners lost 37-33 in their last trip to Fort Worth two years ago, and won the other three league matchups by a combined 11 points.Everybody wants a trophy. In order to get the trophy, you have to get a piece of their trophy, TCU defensive end Josh Carraway said. Right now, Oklahoma has the Big 12 trophy, and weve got to take it from them.Some things to know when Oklahoma and TCU play:MAYFIELD AND PATTERSONWhen asked at the Orange Bowl last year which team disappointed him the most in recruiting, Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield said TCU kind of drug it out and never offered a scholarship while he turned down other offers. Mayfield then went to Texas Tech and became the first true freshman walk-on quarterback to start a season opener for an FBS school, then transferred to Oklahoma after one season. TCU coach Gary Patterson took a different tone than in December when responding this week, saying, Im past it. Hes in a great place, and wishing him luck. Mayfield said, All that last year got blown out of proportion, so thats way in the past.SPREAD IT AROUNDNew TCU starting quarterback Kenny Hill has completed passes to 16 different receivers, including 11 in the SMU game. Hes a hard guy to get a hold of when hes running around, Stoops said of the dual-threat quarterback. That and the ability to spread the ball around as much as they do in the throwing game.SOME STREAKS AND NUMBERSThe Sooners havent lost consecutive games since October 1999, Stoops first season. Theyve won 35 consecutive regular-season games following a loss. ... TCU has at least one sack in a school-record 34 consecutive games. Only Ohio State has a longer active streak (38). ... Oklahoma has won seven consecutive true road games since losing at TCU two years ago. ... In a 33-3 win at SMU last week, TCU didnt allow a touchdown for the first time since 2014.TIGER TURNED FROGWR John Diarse, an LSU graduate transfer classified as a football junior, has 13 catches the last two games for TCU -- he had 28 in two seasons for the Tigers. Diarse was sidelined briefly last week after a hard hit that led to a targeting penalty and ejection for an SMU defender. Diarse returned and caught to catch a 75-yard TD pass on the first play after halftime. When he took a shot in the end zone, a lot of guys would have taken themselves out of the ballgame, Patterson said. He represents what youre trying to get to as a football team. Youve got a guy whos tough, mature.DFW DOUBLEAfter its conference opener in Fort Worth, the Sooners will return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area the following Saturday. They play No. 22 Texas in the annual Red River rivalry game at the State Fair of Texas, about 40 miles away in Dallas. Oklahoma split that two-step in 2014.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.orgLos Angeles Lakers Jerseys . -- Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar will be out for roughly four weeks after tearing his left hamstring. Anthony Davis Jersey . -- Tony Stewart is 20 pounds lighter and has a titanium rod in his surgically repaired right leg. http://www.lakersteamofficial.com/Lebron-James-Lakers-Jersey/ . 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Wragge hit 9-of-14 from behind the arc, matching Kyle Korvers school record for 3-pointers in a game set in 2003, as Creighton (16-3, 6-1 Big East broke a conference record with 21 treys in the rout.Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has called on Formula One to abolish its rules on track limits in order to solve boring asphalt run-off areas.The FIA tightened its rules on track limits at last months Hungarian Grand Prix by imposing drive-through penalties on drivers if they exceeded track limits four times during the race at Turns 4 and 11.Wolff insists F1 would be far more spectacular if it eradicated track limits totally and left the drivers alone.The tarmac run off is so boring anyway that drivers are able to go off and re-join, Wolff said. If you go off the track you should be in a wall or in a gravel bed. If there is tarmac, let them have the quickest line.A million miles of run off areas, it becomes less and less spectacular and audiences have less interest in what we do, so my opinion is -- be it Club or Copse -- let them drive the quickest line.If it is somewhere too unsafe because we are coming too close to the barriers or when you re-join you are putting others in danger, then OK look at the specifics of that corner but for the rest just let them go, let them drive. [It is] spectacular pictures.Wolff believes the recent moves to police track limits, which has included using electronic sensors, is sending F1 in the wrong direction. He argues it is ridiculous to penalise drivers for going off track by the smallest of margins.If you start to analyse white lines, and whether a driver has put 2cm of his tyre on a white line and his lap time is going away, nobody understands anymore, Wolff explained.ddddddddddddhis is not long jump, where two centimetres makes the jump invalid, this is a six-kilometre track and two-centimetres shouldnt be changing that. Just leave the drivers alone, let them drive, provide spectacular pictures over the kerbs.A week later at Hockenheim FIA race director Charlie Whiting had to clarify track limits at Turn 1 after drivers were left confused, believing an agreement had been reached with the FIA in a Strategy Group meeting to move away from imposing penalties.Wolff feels the lack of consistency in F1s rules -- which has included the decision to revert back to the old qualifying format after two races and to free up radio communications half-way through the season -- risks alienating fans.Consistency in the rules is very important because we are not changing the size of a football goal every game and I felt that, in the last strategy meeting, we made really good progress on the various items.Finally, the radio nonsense goes away and provides again narrative for fans and spectators and TV audiences, and then we discussed the track limits should be limited by the kerbs and that therefore the drivers should go the quickest possible way. 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