Sooner season officially “crashed”
Needless to say, that thing called “Sooner Magic” is something that OU had in your grandfather’s day.
On the field where Sooner Magic first materialized, the Sooners lost 10-3 on Saturday to Nebraska in what may be the most pathetic performance since some guy named Blake was coach. Only difference is, Oklahoma didn’t play four different quarterbacks like then.
One was enough. I don’t want to beat up on the young Landry Jones, who is still a redshirt freshman thrust into the job because the Heisman winner has a bum shoulder, but he stunk up Memorial stadium in Lincoln – throwing five interceptions.
We can start calling him record-making Landry. He owns the school record for most touchdowns in a game AND the most interceptions thrown.
Oklahoma went without scoring a touchdown for the first time since 1998.
With this loss the Sooners season is officially crashed. Whether it burns depends on whether Stoops and the gang can figure out how to turn an inept offense into one that can score in the red zone. Moving the football wasn’t the problem. OU out-gained NU 325 to 180 yars. And, the Sooners had plenty of opportunities, thanks to an outstanding Oklahoma defense and a pedestrian Nebraska offense. They just threw them away. Literally.
Texas A&M comes to town on Saturday. I suspect the home crowd will support the offense to four or five touchdowns and the Sooners will win easily.
But then comes another road trip to Lubbock (play the doom and gloom music every time the Sooners have to get on a bus). Despite the Red Raiders’ woes this season you know their villagers are lighting the torches already to set fire to the rest of the Sooner season.