If you go by what this season’s Sooner team has done against teams it lost to in 2014, you get a pretty good feeling about Oklahoma’s path to the national championship game on Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz., and a potential matchup with Alabama, the team that everyone a week ago thought would be the Sooners’ opponent in the national semifinals.
Between now and Dec. 31, however, we are going to hear and read a lot about all four of the Playoff teams are going about their business of preparing for their title shot and the likelihood of their being one of the two teams still standing on New Year’s morning.