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Dave: One extra stop or one turnover puts keys to Bedlam in hands of the defenses

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Oklahoma bolted out to a 41-7 lead in the early stages of the third quarter against West Virginia in Morgantown a few weeks ago. You would think a 34 point second half lead would be pretty safe.

Well, we just can’t have nice things. Enter the Sooner defense in all its sieve-like glory. Tavon Austin II in the form of Justin Crawford rushed for 334 yards and an eye popping 13.8 yards per carry and all of a sudden West Virginia was within two possessions with over ten minutes left in the game.

The offense came in to save the day with two more touchdowns to win going away. Not much to say about the defense that has not already been said. Just have to outscore opponents.

Easier said than done with a really good pokie team coming to town Saturday morning with a Big 12 Title at stake.

Where the hell did Vegas get OU by 14 points?!?

Now I would think this line goes down as the game approaches because I can see money coming in on the pukes at that number. This game will be decided by s

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Questions loom over Sooners’ chances for championship, Cougars scare me

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Man. I thought we had that last year. Twice.

I let myself believe that it was going to happen. That we were going to finally win Bob’s second National Championship after reaching the College Football Playoff. All the way up through halftime of the Orange Bowl.

I thought we had it. And it just slowly slipped away.

And then three months later, the Sooner basketball team reaches the Final Four. And we were playing a team we torched earlier in the year. Surely this was it. The first National Title for the Men’s basketball team. And then, well you know what happened.

Don’t get me wrong. Oklahoma athletics are second to none as a program. This past spring the softball team, men’s gymnastics and women’s gymnastics all won National Titles. And all those teams have multiple National Titles in the past three years.

Heck even men’s tennis won an indoor title a few years back.

All is right with OU athletics. But in a way that makes it a little more painful that the football team just can’t quite get it done.

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Vols offense is the real deal, time for Sooners to put on the big boy pants

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It’s hard to get excited about a 41-3 victory over an overmatched Akron team.

What makes the victory even more hollow in my opinion is the lack of any kind of run game from the Sooners. That may sound harsh, but that’s where I’m at right now. I know the argument. Akron loaded up to stop the run and OU beat them through the air. You take what the defense gives you.

But if you watched closely, I didn’t see the Zips commit eight men in the box very often. For most of the game I thought they played OU pretty straight up. And the Sooners could not run on them. They couldn’t run on Akron.

Now don’t get me wrong. Mayfield and the receivers did live up to the hype after the first quarter. Baker was slinging it all over the field to a plethora of playmakers, one after the other. The Air Raid is alive and well in Norman. And that’s great against Akron. But the Sooners are going to need the running game to be a big part of this offense when the big boys start lining up against them. And if they couldn’t get it rolling against the Zippies?

To me that’s a pretty big red flag because as they say, this sh$t just got real. Tennessee and over a hundred thousand fans await this Saturday in Knoxville. The size, speed and athleticism just jumped exponentially.

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