Dave: Playing smart the key to a Sooners win in Morgantown
Baylor is not a good team. Oklahoma had the talent to beat them. Especially at home.
But three turnovers, another turnover on downs and stupid penalties….Even still the Sooners scored 35 points. There are some who would tell you that scoring 35 points should be enough to win a game. And it probably should. But what Oklahoma fan in the past several years could with a straight face say they would take 35 points and feel comfortable that the Sooners were going to win a game?
They might have put up 50 had they been able to hold onto to the ball and played smarter.
As it was, the Bears capitalized on OU’s mistakes and beat the Sooners for the second year in a row.
Sooner turnovers, Bear run game = Oklahoma’s disappointing fourth loss
You can’t win against a better football team when your quarterback throws three interceptions.
That was my text to a friend after Dillon Gabriel’s pass intended for Jalil Farooq was tipped up and intercepted by Baylor’s Christian Morgan with 1:52 left in the first half.
At that point there was plenty of football yet to be played — and even though Oklahoma’s defense would have brilliant moments in the second half — my axiom proved true on a cool and crisp Saturday afternoon of football in Norman, where the Baylor Bears defeated the Sooners 38-35.
It was only Baylor’s second win in Norman — ever.
The remarkable thing about this game was that the Sooners were only a field goal away from the Bears for much of the game, despite those turnovers.
In fact, the Sooners played pretty good against as tough of an opponent as exists in the Big 12 (records notwithstanding), leading most of the game in all the statistics except the one that counts: the score.