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Donning the Sooner duds for Dixie land

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Good day, my Sooner Lovelies!  I know the world seems to be whirling around us right now and we feel that everytime we wind up on the Gridiron Runway of Life, our wonderful creations are being shredded before us. 

We must not let this make our lovely dimpled chins drop, nor our wonderfully coiffed heads hang.  Sooner fashion will live forever tasteful and classic!

So to lift our spirits we’ll begin today with some lyrics known well by the guests we’ll visit this week.

I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten,

Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land.

This, of course, is the ditty known as Dixie or Dixie Land and is known throughout the Southern regions of our fair country.  This week we will be visiting the Ol’ Miss in Mississippi.

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An improbable Sooner win down South — Oklahoma 27 Auburn 21

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A 61-yard interception return for a touchdown by linebacker Kip Lewis was the late fourth quarter magic needed by the Sooners to overcome what had previously looked like an Auburn victory, marking a 17-point fourth quarter comeback for the Sooners’ 27-21 win at Auburn — it’s first Southeastern Conference win.

“First experience with Sooner Magic as a head coach. Boy was that an amazing last four drives for our offense and defense. Great example of kind of sticking together,” OU Coach Brent Venables said.

“We didn’t play very good, but we played amazing when we needed to.”

Most of the game was a struggle for Oklahoma, but with two bookends of success — first being true freshman QB Michael Hawkins’ spectacular 48-yard TD run on his first series as a starting quarterback, giving OU a 7-0 lead.

The last was the late fourth quarter play from a resilient Oklahoma defense, that had given up 144 yards rushing and 338 passing, but managed important sacks by R. Thomas Mason of Auburn QB Payton Thorne, whose errant throw under pressure dialed up by defensive coordinator Zac Alley put Lewis in the spot to grab the pass and run to the Tiger end zone to give the Sooners a late lead they would not relinquish.

In between those high points, Auburn seemed to have Oklahoma’s number. In the first half, half of the Sooner offense was Hawkins’ TD run. The Sooners only managed 111 yards offense in the first half.

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Dave: Injuries abound, time to get creative

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Houston…. we have several problems.

Oklahoma came dangerously close to being the second big upset of the day when they escaped the Cougars 16-12 last Saturday night at Owen Field.

Venables made the comment at his press conference that it was probably not a good thing that he was bragging on his punter who had to take the field eight times.

But the punter and the defense won the game for the Sooners that night as the offense was a no show. And of course, that is extremely concerning.

Being a 28-point favorite and only posting 14 points, the other two points provided by the defense by way of a safety, against a bad Houston team is not good.

Some over all offensive stats after 2 games are startling: 109th nationally in passing offense, 108th nationally in total offense, and 131st in 3rd down conversion percentage, against less than stellar competition. Sounds suspiciously like rankings the Sooners defense had when “he who must not be named” was at the helm.

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