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“Like parallel parking” Brkic saves Sooners in 16-13 nailbiter

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A bend-but-not-break Sooner defense kept Oklahoma in the game despite a sputtering offense for most of the contest against West Virginia on Saturday night. 

But in the end, QB Spencer Rattler, undaunted by boo birds from the stands, led the Sooners on 54 yard final drive, completing all six pass attempts and placing Oklahoma in position to line locler Gabe Brkic up for the game-winning field goal. 

Like most everyone in the stadium expected, Brkic hit the 30 yarder.

And Oklahoma won 16-13.

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Sooners survive 23-16 slugfest with ornery Huskers

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A sluggish first half offense from No. 3 Oklahoma and a scrappy third down offense by Nebraska kept the rekindled rivalry that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century very close.

But in the end, defense ruled the day.

Tom Osborne and Barry Switzer are no doubt happy. Some things don’t change. 

Such as an Oklahoma-Nebraska contest that kept everyone on the edge of their seats.

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Game of the Century marked the change in college sports for Black athletes

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It seems bizarre to imagine a time when college sports did not include Black athletes. In my lifetime, I cannot remember a time when my team, the Oklahoma Sooners, did not have significant football players who were Black.
 
The first I remember as a young fan was the outstanding nose guard, Granville Liggins, who starred in the 1968 Orange Bowl victory over Tennessee – the first television broadcast of an OU game that I can remember watching.
 
(At the time Tennessee had not integrated its football team. Their first Black football player came a year after the Vols lost that night to Liggins and the Sooners 26-24. I did not realize OU was playing against an all-white team when I watched the game in our living room. I don’t believe I, at age 9, knew the significance of that).
 

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