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Sooners facing better players in game against Buckeyes, Worry Meter at 95%

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Mission accomplished against ULM. 59-17 against an outmanned opponent.

On the face of it, it would seem the Sooners got some stuff worked out. Baker threw to several different receivers, he didn’t force the ball downfield. The running backs found the holes that the O-line opened for them. Riley called a much more balanced game.

The defense pitched a shutout in the first half, and most starters sat the second half. And we cleaned up the stupid penalties.

But in the end, we really don’t know. We can just hope that the problems that surfaced in the season opener against Houston have been fixed, because a similar offense comes to town on Saturday, but with much better players.

Ohio St. has a better Greg Ward Jr., and a better Duke Catalon and a better Steven Dunbar. Ohio St. will also have better depth at every position than Houston had. And unfortunately Ohio St., up and down the roster, will have better players than Oklahoma. It’s just a fact.

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No more gimmies after ULM, time for OU to work out its problems

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Another highly ranked Sooner team stumbles early. Where have I seen that before?

This has  been an unsettling pattern the last 6 or 7 years.  Ranked highly in the pre-season and inevitably lose to one or several teams who where double digit underdogs.

I wish we could start every year unranked.  That’s when we have really good seasons for some reason.  Like we have something to prove.

The issues going into this season that I worried about most reared their ugly heads in the loss to Houston.  

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Great Sooner win over Baylor, but was the Playoff Committee watching at all?

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I guess there are some stories floating around that Art Briles may have said something less than flattering to Bob Stoops during their post game hand shake. So called “insiders” have said that is the case, but will not elaborate.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Arrogant prick. At his post game press conference he couldn’t bring himself to congratulate the Sooners. Closest he got to any praise for OU was saying that OU was a “good team but we made too many mistakes and they got out of here with a win.” Translation: “I don’t want to give OU any credit, we lost the game, OU didn’t win it.”

You know, sometimes that is the case. But not this time Art, and you know it. The Sooners came out with a chip on their shoulder and after Baylor’s first drive, punched the Bears in the mouth.

Whenever Baylor threatened to take the lead, the Sooners answered. And boy are the excuses coming out now. “Well, that was our back up quarterback.” That’s a very different story than what I heard before the game. All I heard from Baylor fans and Briles himself was that Stidham was ready. He isn’t your normal freshman back up. He enrolled in January and knows the offense. The offense won’t skip a beat. He’s better than Russell…and on and on. Whatever.

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