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Sooners drop second game in a row — losing 55-24 to TCU

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I hate to say it. But, the Sooners defense gave up mid-way through their stunning loss to TCU.

Then again, after giving up four big plays, each in excess of 60 yards, for touchdowns in the first half, who wouldn’t?

The Sooners suffered their worst loss since the John Blake era, losing to TCU 55-24. 

Losing their first two conference games of the season is not unprecedented. Lincoln Riley’s 2020 Sooners team did that.

But losing in such convincing fashion leads one to believe this team just isn’t very good.

“We’re not very good obviously right now. We have a lot to get better at, a lot to improve,” said Coach Brent Venables.

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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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‘Thank the Lord…Hallalujah for Brent V.!’ — Mad Dog

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Thank the Lord above for Brent Venables and the masters of the football world he has assembled around him.

Saturday on Owen Field was a welcome homecoming – for Sooner Fans salivating for a new era of OU football, for the mighty Brent V. – who already has secured for himself a place in the annals of Big Red gridiron history – and for all players, and the fans, many of whom still may harbor a wish that Lincoln Riley’s house in Beverly Hills someday burns down without anyone being injured.

There’s surely a lot of hard football games ahead this season for our beloved Crimson and Cream warriors….but, as the saying goes, “the sky’s the limit!”

The kickoff of the 2022 season was steady, dynamic and driven; filled with exciting plays on both sides of the ball.

Rattler? Williams? Forgotten.

Marshal Dillon Gabriel was just what the football doctor ordered for the Sooners for the next few years – a steady, talented, capable, quarterback, who led his team down the field, raising the entire team with his confidence and success.

Our running backs…looked solid, instead of the offensive game plan after-thought they were under Riley.

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