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Sooners dominate Owls 42-3

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A strong run defense and balanced offense, sparked by a 100-yard day for freshman Blaylock, made sure the Oklahoma Sooners easily controlled their first road trip of the season, defeating an overmatched Temple 42-3 in Philadelphia.

The Sooners were never seriously challenged by the Owls. Oklahoma is now 3-0 and enters SEC play next week at home against Auburn.

Blaylock scored two touchdowns in his 14-carry, 100 yard day.

QB John Mateer was 20 for 34 passing, for 282 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He also ran 7 times for 75 yards — one play being a 51-yard TD run. His running frequency was obviously more limited, something OU coaches preferred to avoid injury.

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Dave: Painfully obvious Venables’ culture change will take time (especially on defense)

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It was foolish of us to think that Brent Venables could take the reins of Oklahoma football and immediately contend for national titles.

While there is a lot of talent to work with, the culture change that needs to take place will not be instantaneous. Especially on the defensive side of the ball.

He who shall not be named left the defense in shambles basically through in-difference. He thought he could just out score everyone. And his defensive coordinator could have made the “All-Just-Standing-There-Team”.

All this was painfully obvious while watching a mediocre K-State team with a mediocre quarterback in Adrian Martinez run all over the Sooner defense to the tune of 41 points and over 500 yards of offense.

Kansas State won’t do better than an 8-4 record this year. Unfortunately Oklahoma might not either.

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Sooners need balance as November ‘playoff’ stretch begins in Waco

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It was nice to see such a dominate performance from Oklahoma in their last game, even if it was just Texas Tech. 

Tech can still toss the ball around.  But the return of some key defensive players certainly helped keep the Red Raiders under control which allowed the Sooner offense plenty of chances to run up the score on a beautiful day in Norman. 

Jalen Redmond, D.J. Graham and Delarrin Turner-Yell were all back to full strength and it showed.  Redmond create havoc on his own, but that also helped Isaiah Thomas to have his own party from the outside. 

But perhaps the biggest difference was Turner-Yell back at strong safety which allowed Tennessee transfer Key Lawrence to move to cornerback. 

Lawrence shined with several pass break ups and blanket coverage.  And that in turn, in my opinion, allowed Grinch to have the confidence to play his defense backs much tighter against the opposing receivers. 

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