My blood pressure has subsided now. It’s about an hour since Oklahoma held on to a 52-46 win over TCU in Fort Worth.
In a game that had to have whacked a good couple of years off the life expectancy of most Sooners fans, we learned that the OU offense can be very good (thanks to David Boren’s decision to not to kick Joe Mixon off the team a year ago) and the OU defense can be very good at times, and very bad at times (unfortunately sometimes, as Saturday, in the same game).
I had begun to prepare myself for a disappointing laying of a crimson and cream egg in the first couple of minutes of the game when Oklahoma fumbled and TCU scored and before some fans had time to find their seats the Horned Frogs were ahead 7-0.
Then in the second quarter the Sooners came storming back and took a 35-24 lead at halftime. But not before Baker Mayfield fumbled the ball and gave TCU a field goal that could have been important later.
If Donald Trump promised to make the Sooner secondary great again, he might get more votes
If Donald Trump promised to make the Sooner secondary great again, he might get more votes
The third quarter was all Oklahoma, especially the defense, which held TCU to 16 yards for the quarter. The Sooners at that point went on a 42-3 run. It even included a flea flicker that resulted in a 67 yard TD pass from Mayfield to Dede Westbrook.
Then TCU roared back. Thanks for the OU secondary, which, hyperbole omitted, may be the worst in Norman since WWII.
If Donald Trump promised to make the Sooner secondary great again, he might get more votes even if he claimed Mike Stoops was too fat and ugly.
Mixon’s 72 yard run set up what would be the game-winning TD for the Sooners.
The game end could have been bad. But the defense held on. No thanks to the Big 12 officials, who ruled a completed Sooner pass incomplet on the last OU drive. And, even when officials nearly botched the game by giving the Horned Frogs five downs on their last possession (an intentional grounding call should have resulted in a loss of down).
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