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Sooners have to fight lucky Irish officiating too

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After the Tulsa game I think we can safely say that the Trevor Knight experiment, barring injury or graduation, is over.

I don’t blame the coaching staff for trying. After Johnny “Hancock” Manziel burst on the scene last year I’m sure many a coaching staff were on the look out for the next mobile waterbug to turn loose on unsuspecting defenses.

DAVES-LOGO-copyHowever after seeing Knight and Bell in action, it’s hard to believe Knight showed so much more in pre-season as to convince the coaches that he was the one over Bell. Maybe it’s true some players are great in practice but it just doesn’t click on Saturdays. And that’s not to say it wouldn’t eventually click for Knight, but after Bell’s performance, I don’t expect Knight back under center unless Bell goes down or in a special package for one or two plays

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Time to channel some Bud against Notre Dame Irish

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Let us put this game in perspective.

Oklahoma has not beaten Notre Dame in my lifetime.

And that is a long time.

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Not since 1956, when Coach Bud Wilkinson took Jimmy Harris, Tommy McDonald and the rest of the Sooners to South Bend and whipped Notre Dame 40-0.

That day the Sooner players carried Wilkinson off the field on their shoulders.

But the Fighting Irish have been delivering revenge ever since. Seven Oklahoma losses. The closest the Sooners have come to winning was when Coach Bob Stoops took Josh Heupel, Quentin Griffin and the rest of the Sooners to South Bend and lost 34-30.

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