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Rattler answers critics with stellar performance in Sooners’ 37-31 win

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Improved play from a maligned offensive line, pin-point passing by QB Spencer Rattler, and the good eyes of replay officials came together to end Kansas State’s two-year reign over Oklahoma on Saturday.

The Sooners — aka the “Cardiac Kids” — managed a 37-31 win in Manhattan to continue their season unbeaten. The Wildcats had won the last two contests with the Sooners.

In getting the win, Rattler sent a message back home to the student section:  No one is replacing me.

The second-year quarterback, whose Heisman hopes have dimmed with Oklahoma’s offense struggling to victories, led the Sooners to this victory over a tough Kansas State Wildcats in a tough environment — one of the loudest in the conference. 

K-State’s very vocal purple-clad student section chanted throughout the game: 

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Mike: If only we had a fan base of which the football team could be proud

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I remember when the only boos heard at Owen Field occurred when the band played the visiting team’s fight song.

And that always seemed perfunctory. A half-hearted, we-gotta-do it, buuu…ewe. 

Last night during the OU-West Virginia game, boos came when the Sooners were failing to convert third downs in the second quarter.

More disappointing was a chorus of “We want Caleb”  — a chant I didn’t hear in the stadium, but apparently was nationally broadcast on prime time ABC from a mic’ed up student section of drunken frat boys.

These booing and chanting apparently didn’t notice a Sooners offensive line that was getting whipped by the Mountaineers and causing QB Spencer Rattler to run for his life all night (until the final drive when it counted the most).

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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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