Dave: Multiple opinions, multiple problems
DAVE’S WORRY METER
Oh no, we suck again. I know that isn’t very “true fan”-like.
However, I’ve pulled for Oklahoma since I was a little kid. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I’m a 27 year football season ticket holder. I get to vent every once in a while.
The offense is broken. It just is. And who knows if they can fix it in time to salvage the season.
To top it all off David Stone, perhaps our best player on defense, has an injured knee. Listed as questionable the last time I saw, he at least will be hampered if he plays.
No problem though. We only play the number 1 and number 2 teams in the nation away from home the next couple of weeks.
(Are you picking up on my sarcasm here? You should be because I’m laying it on pretty thick).
Sooners survive Lobos 14-6, poor offensive show
You knew when the OU twirler dropped her baton and then an errant firework scorched the turf during the pregame run on that things weren’t going to go well for the Sooners the rest of the evening.
Omens aside, the events during Oklahoma’s narrow 14-6 game which it didn’t win as much as it survived, and the post-game remarks about it, made for a disappointing and perhaps foreboding turn in the Sooners’ 2026 season.
Oklahoma’s fans turned on their quarterback, launching the first boos of the still fledgling season when QB John Mateer inexplicably completed his first pass to the wrong team — an interception to begin his first action since throwing a game-losing INT in Ann Arbor a week before.
Later in the second quarter the fans turned on offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle, especially when he chose to run the ball in the waning minutes of the half to set up a field goal (that would miss), rather than have Mateer pass the ball for a hoped for touchdown.
This overshadowed a stellar performance by Oklahoma’s defense, making six sacks and 10 tackles for a loss. Their fourth down stop at the end of the game sealed a win.
The night vs day imbalance between Oklahoma’s offense and defense is a mirror image of a Lincoln Riley team — but in Riley’s case, the Sooners’ offense was so potent it didn’t matter as much.