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 ‘All our exes live in ….’ (let’s check on the ex-Sooners)

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I recommend OU football fans not watch replays of USC’s 41-28 victory over Stanford.

Mow the yard. Paint the baseboards in the bathroom.

Watch The Waterboy for the zillionth time.

Do anything but watch the lovefest that is USC football, the all-star transfer team of 2022.

Caleb Williams now has the second-best odds (behind Ohio State’s CJ Stroud) to win the Heisman at FanDuel Sportsbook. His odds are +300, meaning if you plunk down $100, you’d win $300.

Last week, his odds were +600.

BTW, the odds on OU’s Dillon Gabriel is +5000.

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A Tale of Two Halves — Sooners win 33-3

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If the Oklahoma-Kent State game was a forecast of the Sooners’ 2022 season, we can expect the best of times and the worst of times from this team.

Their 33-3 win before flashing stadium lights on Saturday night was a tale of two halves (apologies to Charles Dickens).

The offense in the first half was flat. And that is being generous. 

Perhaps we should have known the game would be surreal when earlier on Saturday the computer system relied upon by the athletic ticket office crashed and prevented half the fans from downloading their digital tickets for the game. 

That error was corrected a few hours before kickoff.

The offense’s errors took a little longer — until the last minute of the second quarter, with three straight Dillion Gabriel passes to Marvin Mims — the last being a 36-yarder to give the Sooners their first score to take the 7-0 lead going into halftime.

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Dave: Expect speed race with Kent State

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All in all it was a pretty successful debut for new Sooner head coach Brent Venables last Saturday.

They took care of UTEP in convincing if not spectacular fashion.

The offense was balanced and fast. Boy were they fast. Maybe too fast? The time of possession could be a little concerning.

The Sooners possessed the ball just 21 minutes and 27 seconds versus UTEP who held the ball 38 minutes and 33 seconds.

Of course it didn’t matter because Oklahoma was up 21-0 in the first quarter, averaging just over one minute and 10 seconds for each of those three touchdowns.

The Miners tried to control the ball, but could not convert those possessions into touchdowns. The OU defense was able to shut down UTEP outside of two 50 yard field goals and one touchdown by playing an effective zone the majority of the game.

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