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Gabriel-led Sooners put Jayhawks in their place in 52-42 win

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What a difference a week makes.

Or, what a difference having a quarterback makes.

Both were at play as the Sooners ended a three-game losing streak and on the heels of an embarrassing loss in the Red River Rivalry, defeated Kansas at home 52-42 under the reins of QB Dillon Gabriel, returning to duty from an injury.

“Dillon makes a big difference,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said. “As we saw today, having missed him for the last seven quarters, he makes a big difference in the flow of your whole team. Not just the offense.”

Gabriel finished 29-for-42 with 403 yards and three total touchdowns and led the Sooners (4-3, 1-3 Big 12) to the win over the No. 19-ranked Jayhawks.

 OU compiled 701 total yards of offense compared to just 195 total and 39 through the air against Texas.

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Dave: No sugar coating — this team is bad right now, until Gabriel makes return

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Now I guess we know how it felt to be texas fans when OU was handing them 65-13 and 63-14 beat downs. 

But at the very least we can take solace in the fact that we are NOT, in fact, actual texas fans. 

I can’t imagine…  It’s pretty thin times for Oklahoma Football right now.  In some ways historically thin. 

But I am sure you have heard all the stats and streaks that have been broken or started during the last three games.  No real need to re-hash it all here.  There’s no sugar coating it.  We are just a bad football team right now. 

I do think that Brent, given time, will get it turned around.  It just depends on if Joe C. will give him that time.  I mean John Blake got three years. 

But that was almost 25 years ago.  College football is much different now.  The money is fatter and the patience is thinner. 

I think Joe will do the right thing and give Brent the time he needs.  However there needs to be visible improvement pretty quickly.  Like this year. 

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