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One weekend has already changed the tone of the Big 12.Oklahoma went into this season as the overwhelming favorite to win its 10th Big 12 Conference title, and the Sooners very well might still be that with all the talent back from last seasons College Football Playoff team.But after a fast start against Houston, quarterback Baker Mayfield , running back Samaje Perine and Co. wound up with a 10-point loss to a team from outside the Power Five conferences that shot past them in the new AP Top 25 poll.While still a few weeks from starting conference play, the Sooners have little room for error if they want to return to the four-team playoff. For now, they arent even the highest-ranked Big 12 team.Neither is TCU, which at 24-3 since the start of the 2014 has the best overall record in the 10-team Big 12, the only conference able to tout having half of its teams ranked. But the Horned Frogs had their own issues in scuffling to a victory over an FCS team.Texas is tops among ranked Big 12 teams after rocketing from unranked for more than two full seasons to No. 11 this week after its 50-47 double-overtime win over then-No. 10 Notre Dame, which in last seasons opener beat the Longhorns by five touchdowns.One game doesnt make a season. We know were still rebuilding, said coach Charlie Strong, coming off back-to-back losing seasons to start his tenure with the Longhorns. Youre just hoping this cant be a one-night wonder, and it wont be.The first part of Strongs statement is also applicable to the Sooners, who plummeted from their preseason ranking of third to No. 14 this week. They are a spot ahead of TCU, which slipped two to 15th after a 59-41 win over South Dakota State in a game that was tied midway through the third quarter.Weve got a long season ahead of us, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. Our guys are very aware of that.They also have, no doubt, the toughest non-conference schedule in the Big 12. After the Sooners play their home opener Saturday as six-TD favorites over Louisiana-Monroe, fourth-ranked Ohio State will visit Norman the following week.Overall, the Big 12 went 7-3 on the opening weekend, when even Kansas won to break a 15-game skid dating to November 2014. The only losers other than Oklahoma were Kansas State at top-10 Stanford and Iowa State in its debut for coach Matt Campbell against Northern Iowa.Last season, Oklahoma won the Big 12 title and, even with a loss, became the leagues first CFP team. That setback was to Texas, which went into the Red River rivalry game as a double-digit underdog coming off a 43-point loss at TCU. The years game at the State Fair of Texas is Oct. 1.Oklahoma then scored at least 52 points in four consecutive games, part of a seven-game winning streak before losing to Clemson in the CFP semifinal game at the Orange Bowl.The Sooners probably cant lose again if there is any chance of getting back into the CFP that hasnt had a two-loss team in its brief history. And that could be a tough task with Ohio State and the round-robin Big 12 schedule left to play. Since becoming a 10-team league in 2011, the Big 12 champion has had an 8-1 conference record each season. Oklahomas last six titles included a conference loss.Texas, which still has a non-conference game at Pac-12 team California, stays home to play UTEP a week after a record attendance of 102,315 for the opener against Notre Dame, along with a massive national audience watching on television and online.You always talk about good people that believe in you. You have to give them a reason to believe in you, Strong said. 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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Damon Snacks Harrison is still working out the intricacies of making the trip to the New York Giants training facilities at the Meadowlands instead of the much-shorter drive to the Jets headquarters in Florham Park.The teams fields are located 30 minutes apart in northern New Jersey, and it can be daunting figuring out which roads make the drive quicker.Being on the field playing football is a lot more fun, and thats where Harrison was on Tuesday as the Giants donned shoulder pads for the first time since opening training camp last week.Harrison, who signed a $46 million free-agent contract in the offseason, missed the first three practices after being put on the physically-unable-to-perform list with a swollen knee. The extra rest worked, and the big run-stuffer was taken off PUP Tuesday.The hard part was limiting himself.We had to yank him out of some drills, he was chomping at the bit to get going, coach Ben McAdoo said. Jumped right back in there, seems to be in pretty good shape.Harrison isnt concerned about his left knee. He had surgery in 2010 to repair a meniscus and he has barely missed any practice in recent years. Getting ready for camp and switching from a grass surface to turf caused the swelling.It also subjected him to some grief from fellow linemen Johnathan Hankins and Jason Pierre-Paul, who teased him about missing practice and his decision to have a green Italian ice during a break Tuesday.If there was a positive, Harrison said his knee felt as good as it has in the past two years.The Giants need a healthy Harrison. They are trying to repair a defense that finished last in the league in defense, including 24th against the run.Harrison and Hankins can control the middle and that should allow Pierre-Paul and Olivier Vernon to go after the quarterback.The adjustment will be learning about the guys playing next to him and communicating with them.dddddddddddd The football is football.To me, thats the toughest part, Harrison said. Its not learning the play book, its not getting used to a new team and new areas, its fitting in with the guys you have to play with because everybody has different personalities and you have to learn each guy individually, you cant treat the group the same. I have to give those guys credit, they welcomed me with open arms and made it easy.The Giants probably will keep an eye on Harrison for the next couple weeks and dial back his workload when necessary.Harrison seemed to enjoy his first practice with the Giants, even though he felt he was a little too slow. He had no problem with the new defense. It was like the Jets.As simple as I can put it, youre never wrong when you knock them back, Harrison said. Youre not reaching when you knock them back, youre not messing up on a play when you knock them back, so as long as Im knocking them back off the line, its the same thing.One of the happiest people to see Harrison was middle linebacker Jasper Brinkley.A guy like Snacks, he can keep those linemen off of you, Brinkley said. Its a benefit. Its a benefit to be able to run and float. Its like having Christmas every day.Game notes Receiver Odell Beckham Jr. did not practice because his lower leg was sore after being cleated on Sunday. ... McAdoo said LB J.T. Thomas (hamstring) and DT Jay Bromley (ankle) will need more time before coming off PUP. ... Second-year offensive lineman Bobby Hart is going to get a chance to challenge Marshall Newhouse for the RT job, McAdoo said. ... The Giants practice on Wednesday will be closed to the public. ' ' '