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Vols offense is the real deal, time for Sooners to put on the big boy pants

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It’s hard to get excited about a 41-3 victory over an overmatched Akron team.

What makes the victory even more hollow in my opinion is the lack of any kind of run game from the Sooners. That may sound harsh, but that’s where I’m at right now. I know the argument. Akron loaded up to stop the run and OU beat them through the air. You take what the defense gives you.

But if you watched closely, I didn’t see the Zips commit eight men in the box very often. For most of the game I thought they played OU pretty straight up. And the Sooners could not run on them. They couldn’t run on Akron.

Now don’t get me wrong. Mayfield and the receivers did live up to the hype after the first quarter. Baker was slinging it all over the field to a plethora of playmakers, one after the other. The Air Raid is alive and well in Norman. And that’s great against Akron. But the Sooners are going to need the running game to be a big part of this offense when the big boys start lining up against them. And if they couldn’t get it rolling against the Zippies?

To me that’s a pretty big red flag because as they say, this sh$t just got real. Tennessee and over a hundred thousand fans await this Saturday in Knoxville. The size, speed and athleticism just jumped exponentially.

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Nothing the Sooner coaches do will surprise me

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Call it a tale of two halves. Absolute ineptitude in the first half and absolute dominance in the second.

Coming into the Tech game two factors would have seemed to dictate the game plan. Cody Thomas was a freshman QB starting his first game on the road in crazy Lubbock, Texas against the Red Raiders. And Texas Tech had the worst run defense in the country.

No brainer right? Take the pressure off your rookie QB and run it straight down their throat with your stellar running backs and a veteran offensive line that out weighs almost all NFL units.

Nope. Not Josh Heupal. Let’s sling the ball all over the yard to the tune of 3 interceptions and a 7 point halftime deficit.

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No excuse for most disappointing season

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Not much to say. Given the expectations, this is the most disappointing season of OU football under Bob Stoops reign. And there is no excuse for it.

With the resources available to Stoops, this shouldn’t be happening. Three conference losses. Two of them on Owen Field. Ridiculous.

I can hear the Stoops apologists now. “Remember the Blake years and be happy with what you have.” Yeah, I remember the Blake years. And that’s why Blake was fired. I know Bob has brought a National Title. I also know it was 14 years ago. I know he has won conference titles. But the last outright conference title was 4 years ago.

So the question is how long does OU settle for 10-2, 9-3 and possibly 8-4 seasons with no chance at a National Title and the occasional shot at a conference title? Is that an acceptable return for paying a head coach over 5 million dollars a year?

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