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4th quarter fumble takes air out of Boomer Sooner balloon, OU falls to Ol’ Miss 34-26

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With 7:11 left in the game, Isaiah Sategna began his punt return — riding the momentum that a revived offense and a stingy defense had presented after the halftime intermission, which saw the Sooners outscoring eighth-ranked Mississippi 16-3 in the third quarter.

The Sooners were behind 31-26, but despite a sloppy offensive performance most of the game, Sategna’s punt return presented the best opportunity for good field position when the Sooners needed it most.

Four seconds later, as his speedy wheels took him to the 50 yard line — a perfect place to launch the Sooners to a comeback winning drive — Sategna instead launched himself, hurdling an Ol’ Miss defender.

And on his way down, in that next second, at 7:04 on the clock, he fumbled.

The hope-filled balloon of those previous six seconds, the ones that carried a chance to take an Oklahoma lead late in the game and, if held, a win that would solidify the Sooners’ play off chances, burst.

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O-line has best game of year, needed even more against Ol’ Miss

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Big bounce back win on the road against South Carolina last Saturday after the Red River debacle.  Even bigger was the run game that finally came to play, in what seemingly feels like the first time this year. 

Tory Blalock emerged as RB 1 for the Sooners with over a hundred yards and a touchdown against the Gamecocks.  Averaging 5 yards a carry is a great game against anyone, much less an SEC defense on the road. 

The offensive line had its best performance of the season.  And by doing so they took pressure off Mateer, allowing Oklahoma to control the line of scrimmage and Blaylock to work his magic. 

I’m sure the Sooners went into this game knowing they had to start running the ball more effectively, as it’s pretty obvious Mateer isn’t 100% no matter what anyone says.  They need to keep as much off his shoulders and hand as possible as he continues to fully heal.

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Sooners make a game of it in Oxford

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This game will go down as an “L” in the win-loss column. But there was something different about it.

The 26-14 loss to Mississippi felt more like the loss on the road at Oxford that we expected pre-season instead of the humiliation we had recently expected (and Vegas predicted, making the Sooners a three-score underdog) after pitiful Sooner performances in October.

For the first time this year, we saw beginner QB Jackson Arnold look like a young quarterback — making some plays to show his talent and failing at some plays to show his inexperience — but, progressing in his development, rather than the young QB regressing into shell shock (which had been the case earlier in the year, resulting in his benching).

“I thought Jackson did a lot of really good things at times,” Coach Brent Venables said of Arnold.

So did the rest of the team. Given recent developments that has had fans in meltdown mode, it was possible this team could have tanked by now. But, their performance against Mississippi showed they have not.

“These guys aren’t going to flinch — I promise you… I think everyone on the outside might assume guys will give up or check out… Not these guys,” Coach Brent Venables said.

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