Just your typical Bedlam game of late with OU holding on at the very end to beat O State by a 48-47 count. OU now leads the series by a 88-18-7 count, but the games of late for the most part have been very entertaining.
Mike Gundy is now 2-12 in Bedlam and would be 1-13 if not for the repunt to Tyreke Hill in 2014 which gift wrapped a win to Mike Gundy’s Cowboys. Gundy can’t beat OU–that much appears to be evident and he’s now 0-2 versus Lincoln Riley.
In all candor O State could have very well won this ballgame, but as per the norm couldn’t make a game winning play in the game’s final period. O State always seems snakebit in this series. Always.
In the game’s final period O State played with grit, but lost a costly fumble, missed a critical extra point, allowed Kennedy Brooks to run almost untouched on a long run setting up OU’s game winner, and then threw the ball into the ground on the game’s deciding moment on a two point conversion attempt. Typical stuff if you’ve watched this series as intently as I have over the years.
It appears to be a mental thing with O State because OU’s defense is pretty much awful and really can’t stop anybody who has decent quarterback play.
OU’s offense is as good as any team in the country, but that defense is to the point where you have to come to terms with the fact OU isn’t Final Four worthy. It’s not Mike Stoops, they just aren’t good enough. It is what it is.
But still it’s very entertaining to watch Kyler Murray play the quarterback position at the highest level I’ve ever witnessed in OU football history.
Consider this when you vote your Heisman vote, the kid from Alabama has a defense which stuffs every team it plays against, whereas Kyler Murray knows his team has to score nearly fifty points to beat good teams. Kyler Murray will get my first place Heisman vote, the kid from Alabama will get my second place vote, and my third place vote is still to be decided.
I’m not gnashing my teeth over these Sooners, but more enjoying their incredible offense and hoping they can make enough tackles to win the Big 12 and play in one of the better bowls excluding the playoff.