Oklahoma's offense has been about as unstoppable as it could be the last two months, which is only to say it's as good as advertised: The Sooners have scored on 63 of 90 non-half-ending drives since losing to Texas, or 70 percent, and that includes mostly dormant fourth quarters with huge leads (contrary to some opinions, OU was not in the habit of running up the score prior to the Big 12 Championship game). Essentially, since Oct. 11, you can expect Oklahoma to score touchdowns on about 75 percent of its meaningful possessions.

It's no coincidence that Sam Bradford has only been sacked three times since that loss to the Longhorns, and not at in all in five of the subsequent seven games, in which OU has averaged an eyelash shy of 60 points. Bradford is the best-protected man in America this side of Barack Obama, and he responded during the winning streak by throwing 25 touchdowns to one interception, posting an astronomical pass efficiency rating and winning one of those trophies you hear so much about. It sounds trite, but it's true: If Florida's going to slow Oklahoma down (this is different from stopping them, for which there is no precedent) they have to hit Bradford.

Only two teams have really hit Bradford all season: TCU, which logged four sacks in late September, and Texas, which got to him for three sacks two weeks later. Neither exactly stopped him -- Bradford passed for 411 yards with four touchdowns and no turnovers against TCU and for 387 and five touchdowns against Texas, at right about his season average for efficiency in both games. But the Frogs and Horns shuttered the Sooner running game and disrupted Bradford enough to hold OU to by far its lowest point totals of the season (35 in both games), and at least forced the sophomore into a few bad throws -- Texas picked Bradford off twice, and TCU held him to a 55.9 completion percentage, his second-lowest of the season and far below his 68.3 season average.

Texas and TCU have another thing in common: elite edge pass rushers. National sack leader Jerry Hughes' impact for TCU didn't show up on the stat sheet against the Sooners -- the Frogs had more success with the blitz, which might help explain why they gave up so many big plays when not getting to the quarterback -- but Texas' Brian Orakpo got to Bradford twice, hassled him all afternoon and finally confirmed his All-American hype by abusing similarly hyped Sooner left tackle Phil Loadholt on speed rushes:

Florida has a pair of speed rushers, Carlos Dunlap and Jermaine Cunningham, who combined for 15 QB takedowns, another 10 QB hurries, and look very reminiscent in their size and production to the two ends, Jarvis Moss and Derrick Harvey, that so thoroughly dominated the Gators' win in the '06 championship game. Certainly, Dunlap and Cunningham are a bigger handful than any pair of ends OU has seen since the Red River Shootout, to put it mildly; if the Sooners are going to leave Loadholt and right tackle Trent Williams on an island with them, the Gators' best chance of keeping Oklahoma's scoring machine under something resembling control is to pin their ears back and hope the "speed" meme comes through in their favor again.