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Does Mayfield have the ‘stuff’ to QB Sooners to a championship?

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While I don’t know where I came to the conclusion, I thought Baker Mayfield was less than 6 feet tall and under 190 pounds. With that misconception, I set out to see how he compared to the top quarterbacks in Division One college football. So, without first confirming Mayfield’s physical attributes, I set about garnering such information for the quarterbacks of the AP’s Top 10 teams in this week’s poll. Here are the results.

The average sized quarterback of a Top 10, Division One team is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 221 pounds.

With this information in hand, I was thinking that Baker Mayfield is considerably smaller than quarterbacks of teams in the hunt for the four playoff spots. So, I decided to look up Baker’s numbers to make sure.

At 6 foot 2 inches tall, Baker is the same height as the quarterbacks for the 3rd and 4th ranked teams and only an inch shorter than the QBs of the 5th and 9th ranked teams. Weighing 214 pounds he is nominally as heavy or heavier than the QBs of the 3rd, 4th, 7th and 9th ranked teams. With respect to the QBs of the four teams most predicted to make the playoffs, Mayfield is 2 inches shorter and 21 pounds lighter than the average of two and nominally the same size as the other two.

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Defense must improve, or Sooners are in trouble (Where are the Selmon brothers when we need them?)

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garys blog1_100x300Two weeks ago, after the Akron game, I said that we would have to await the Tennessee game to see if Oklahoma deserved its then No. 19 ranking. I was wrong. Not because the answer from that game was in the negative but because we didn’t really get an answer.

Now, after week-three and the game with Tulsa, we still don’t know if the Sooners are capable of playing with the big dogs. At least three questions remain.

First, what is the status of the offensive line? I think it fair to say that the O-line was pretty ineffectual against the Vols until the fourth quarter when its apparent better conditioning took over. Even then, one of the premier running backs in the country (Samaje Perine) wasn’t consistently sprung free. And, it’s not clear to what extent that’s because Lincoln Riley is still trying to learn how to use a top-rung running back in his air raid offense. Additionally, Mayfield was constantly scrambling.

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Mayfield takes charge and leads Sooners to 52-38 record-setting win over TU

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mikesblogOklahoma’s game against Tulsa was like walking a tight rope without a net.

After TU scored 14 points in the last minute of the first half, closing the Sooners lead to seven, it seemed like the game was just a play or two away from falling into disaster.

But, then, Baker Mayfield came in and said, at least figuratively, “we got this.”

Mayfield set a school record with 572 yards. He threw four touchdown passes. He ran for two more.

And Oklahoma won 52-38, in a game where the offense bailed out the defense, which struggled defending against TU’s Baylor-esque offense. It was a returned favor from the previous week, when the defense seemed to keep Oklahoma in the game at Tennessee even when the offense sputtered.

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