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Sooners facing better players in game against Buckeyes, Worry Meter at 95%

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Mission accomplished against ULM. 59-17 against an outmanned opponent.

On the face of it, it would seem the Sooners got some stuff worked out. Baker threw to several different receivers, he didn’t force the ball downfield. The running backs found the holes that the O-line opened for them. Riley called a much more balanced game.

The defense pitched a shutout in the first half, and most starters sat the second half. And we cleaned up the stupid penalties.

But in the end, we really don’t know. We can just hope that the problems that surfaced in the season opener against Houston have been fixed, because a similar offense comes to town on Saturday, but with much better players.

Ohio St. has a better Greg Ward Jr., and a better Duke Catalon and a better Steven Dunbar. Ohio St. will also have better depth at every position than Houston had. And unfortunately Ohio St., up and down the roster, will have better players than Oklahoma. It’s just a fact.

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Sooners historically fall short of pre-season expectations

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In the fall of 1972 I entered the University of Oklahoma as a first year law student. I chose to attend OU for many reasons, not the least of which was the 1971 Thanksgiving day Nebraska game which, in my mind. presaged championship football during my three years at the University.

Imagine my surprise, upon arrival in Norman, to find that there was not universal acceptance of the “fact” that OU had the best team in the nation. This was back in the days of my youth when I started every football season with the unshakable belief that we would go undefeated and spend New Year’s evening celebrating another national championship after a rousing Sugar Bowl win.

I couldn’t believe we weren’t unanimously ranked No.1.

I remember sitting in the coffee shop in the student union with my fellow law students assuring each other that Oklahoma historically does better in those seasons where expectations were low at the beginning. None of us had any evidence of this “fact.” I think we were just trying to reassure ourselves that we were in the hunt for a national championship that year.

My recollections, however, raise an interesting point as we enter the 2015 season with a preseason ranking of 19. So, a little research:

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