It's official. The Sooners will open the season atop both major polls.

With the release today of the first edition of this year's AP Poll, our Sooners will officially open the 2011 season atop both major polls.  It's somewhat of a surprise in that I'm sure several expected that after the injury to Travis Lewis AP voters might drop OU back a couple spots.  This may have been reflected in the smaller gap between first place votes, 42 to 13 in the coaches' poll release a couple weeks ago compared to 36 and 17 in the AP poll today.  

Once the ballots are released (likely tomorrow or Monday), I'll start back up our weekly analysis of which voters had who and where but for now here is a quick snapshot of what we