More than just an exciting account of the greatest team accomplishment in college football history, The Undefeated also is an absorbing character study of the brilliant, complex coach who engineered it all, the on-field genius whose starched-shirt public persona hid a man of many secrets -- an in-depth look at a state and its people still suffering from a Depression hangover and an identity crisis, who took up the Sooners football banner almost as a religious cause -- a perceptive examination of race in fifties America as seen through the microcosm of Norman, Oklahoma and the Sooners football program.