When you add Ronnie Perkins back on defense and you now give the Sooners a legit power run game in Rhamondre Stevenson… I think the Big 12 football season just took a turn.
Especially since both O State and Kansas State lost on Saturday to bring the Sooners to within a game of a first place logjam atop the standings.
I’m not on here writing OU should be pounding their chests and saying they want Alabama or Clemson, but for the sake of the BIg 12 football title chase if this OU roster stays intact the rest of the football season I would say OU is the team to beat after witnessing the the 62-28 win over Texas Tech in Lubbock on Halloween night.
Add to the fact ever since Lincoln Riley sat down Spencer Rattler in the first half of the Red River Rivalry after a shaky start the freshman quarterback has been phenomenal and has quit making costly game changing mistakes.
If this OU roster was in this year’s SEC West they would be the second best team behind Alabama. I would love to see this OU team play Georgia on a neutral field in some New Year’s Day Bowl.
At 4-2 these Sooners should run the table in their last four games of the season even though O State’s defense has been scrappy so far this college football season.
Tommy Tuberville was 7-3 versus Alabama while at Auburn. That’s primarily why he probably will defeat Doug Jones on Tuesday’s election and become a United State’s senator.
Mike Gundy is 2-13 versus OU and Boone Pickens never let him forget it. It would be 1-14 if Bob Stoops hadn’t done something Mike Gundy never did one time that entire Bedlam Game when Tyreke Hill broke loose on the second punt… namely giving the ball on back to back plays to the most explosive player now playing in the NFL. Gundy never considered it. Bubble screen, jet sweep, trick play reverse, quick slant, give and go flag…Andy Reid does it. Gundy should coach like there’s nothing to lose. Turn it loose.
This in no way is a diss of the O State players…especially those on that gritty defense which basically shut Texas down on Saturday. I’d love to have Rodriguez, Peel, and Sterling wearing crimson. But it’s more the feel that with Rhamondre Stevenson and Ronnie Perkins back on the field with Spencer Rattler playing with poise…these Sooners even with the two losses are the best team in the Big 12 for whatever that’s worth in 2020.
During last night’s telecast Tim Brando made a comparison of Rhamondre to Marcus Dupree of the one OU season back in the days of Barry Switzer in 1982. I’m not sure about the speed comparison, but otherwise…maybe.