Sooners kick off Venables era with 45-13 win over UTEP
It wasn’t great. It wasn’t bad.
For a debut of a new head coach, new quarterback and many other players, it acceptably set the Sooners ship back on course after a tumultuous end of last season.
And it marked the beginning of the head coach career of what may be the next legendary skipper.
That is my take on Oklahoma’s 45-13 win over UTEP on a humid hot day in Norman on Saturday.
“At the end of the day, it was going to be about Oklahoma re-establishing the soul and the spirit of this program,” Venables said after the game.
Clearly, the Sooners did just that as soon as they stepped off the bus, to be greeted by several hundred screaming funs who lined the Jenkins Avenue path to the stadium.