Dave: Sooners will need more than lightening in a bottle to win last Bedlam matchup
Before the season started, I would have told you that a 9-3 outcome would be a great record in Brent’s
second year. Anything better than that would be amazing.
Now, I must admit I got caught up in the National Championship dreams just like a lot of Sooner fans.
After going 7-0, even with a close call against UCF, I still thought there was a good chance OU could go undefeated this year.
Dreams of 2000 lingered in our collective heads. Second year of a new head coach. Left-handed quarterback. We were reaching with the similarities but hoping that we would catch lightning in a bottle a second time.
However, sloppy play and even worse play calling put a stop to that last Saturday in Lawrence.
Jayhawks rock Sooners in 38-33 upset
If there ever was a deserving loss, then No. 6 Oklahoma’s upsetting 38-33 loss to Kansas on Saturday was one of them.
Too many penalties (101 yards), critical secondary busts (KU converted on two of three fourth down plays) and an offense that abandoned its successful running game cost the Sooners the win and likely any hope of making a college football playoff.
The KU win snapped an 18-game Sooner win streak in the series. It was the first defeat for the Sooners this season.
Kansas students brought the goal posts down in a mass of red and blue following the see-saw game.
“I thought out guys played with effort, but don’t think we played real smart,” Coach Brent Venables said.”