re: Oklahoma Breakdown

Ohio State also did a pretty decent job on defense against OU for about 68% of the game. OU moved the ball but they forced a couple turnovers and got some special teams mistakes. It was 3-3 at half time.

OU definitely flexed in the fourth quarter but it was also in conjunction with JT Barrett reverting to some of his worst habits and throwing every ball into the ground instead of to his teammates. OSU collapsed as much as OU pulled away.

I'm not trying to discredit the win but I think people are forgetting that it didn't turn one-sided until the fourth quarter and could have gone either way until Oklahoma flexed. That personally scares me for our game.

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Ohio State also did a pretty decent job on defense against OU for about 68% of the game. OU moved the ball but they forced a couple turnovers and got some special teams mistakes. It was 3-3 at half time. OU definitely flexed in the fourth quarter but it was also in conjunction with JT Barrett reverting to some of his worst habits and throwing every ball into the ground instead of to his teammates. OSU collapsed as much as OU pulled away. I'm not trying to discredit the win but I think people are forgetting that it didn't turn one-sided until the fourth quarter and could have gone either way until Oklahoma flexed. That personally scares me for our game.

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Eh, OU moved the ball at will and just kept shooting themselves in the foot. If you want to credit their defense with that, fine, but the game was one-sided the entire time. In the first half, 222 yds vs 92 yds. In the 2nd, OU scored TD's on 4/6 drives. One was a 3 and out punt, the other was a time-eating drive that put the game away.

Not an unfair take by any means, but from my perspective the game wasn't as close as the score indicates. But if OU comes out against Georgia and has a first half similar to the tOSU game, I'm not sure we get away with it. I'm not one of the people expecting an easy game. I think it's going to be close and hard-fought, and that's if our defense shows up.

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Lol! Did YOU watch the game?

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Nope lol ;-). But most of those rushing yards came in the 2nd half when the game was in hand. They only had 75 rush yds in the first half, and 30 of those yds came on one play. Iowa's passing game torched the tOSU secondary and wore out the defense, and in this case, the pass set up the run game later on. I'd also put more blame on the LBs but ¯\_(?)_/¯

Was Kansas State one of those top offenses that OU faced? They scored 35 on OU yet Vandy held them to 7.

Yeah, you all moved the ball but OSU was at least able to hang in there on defense. I think if we can do that and limit the mistakes UGA will be in good shape but the OU explosiveness really makes me nervous. Regardless, that's a heck of a win on the road early in the season.

I guess my broader point is the awesome thing about this matchup is from my perspective, neither team has a frame of reference for the other. There's no opportunity for transitively assessing the teams since there is no common opponent or really even common opponent of a common opponent. Sure. Kansas State put up points on OU and KSU was also shut down by Vanderbilt (like game 2, come on). I'm having trouble drawing comparisons to understand how that impacts our game.

To me, OU beating previous SEC teams doesn't matter just like our painful-on-the-eyes win over TCU last year doesn't matter. I've seen OU fans trying to overemphasize the first Auburn game and extrapolate that across the whole season. And our fans are trying to do similar things with the OU-ISU game.

So four opponents vs OU had their highest scores against them. Another opponent or two had their 2nd highest point total. Five teams had their lowest scores against UGA and a couple other had their 2nd lowest score.

Yeah none of this really means anything. Half the teams that played OU had their highest or close to highest scores. Half of UGA opponents had their lowest or close scores.

Its all just talk till kick off but it sure is fun to be in the conversation.

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Oklahoma Breakdown by WG_DawgI didn't want to start a new thread so I'll put this here. Some channel has a 30 minute long season recap for each playoff team, I think it's called "road to the playoffs" or something, and I watched oklahoma's yesterday. Honestly, I now actually feel better about the game than I did. Obviously, BM is extremely good. Great. There's no way around that. But what I really noticed was that most of his passes were based on simply being accurate on medium/deep routes and his WRs making a play on the DB. 2 things about that: -We've faced plenty of accurate QBs before, but the thing that makes me feel better is that you can at least do something about that. What's truly scary to me is a passing game like Wuerffel used to have at UF that was based on timing, there's a lot less you can do about that. When the ball is leaving the QB's hand before the WR has even made a move yet, but it ends up where the WR is eventually going ot be, that's ridiculously hard to stop or disrupt. I don't see that from baker, I see precision passing often times in not the best coverage. -A lot of the highlights of big pass plays were throwing medium/long passes and WRs having some cushion on the DB. I believe Baker/Mcgee will probably be a better duo than anyone they've faced this year so I feel better about that. I also feel our pass rush will be better than any they've seen this year -On many of their successful plays to the TE, the guy is streaking down or across the middle with basically no opposition. SEveral plays I didn't see a LB within 5-8 years of the guy. I have to think Roquan along with a month to prepare will alleviate that

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This is a pretty good assessment of our passing game. But what a LOT of people outside of our conference fail to realize is that OU is not a typical spread offense. We have fullbacks, tight ends, and H-backs. We run the ball at OU that's pretty obvious by the way we put running backs into the NFL. We're not Texas Tech. Bob Stoops always believed in being balance on the offensive side of the ball and Lincoln Riley believes in that same Philosophy. We average 216 yards on the ground. You average 263. 45 yards of difference. That's where we're different. I really think you'll be surprised at how well we run the ball against you guys.

Oklahoma plays big 12 defenses. Chubb would've been a Heisman contender playing big 12 defenses for 4 years.....he'd have surpassed walker in yards gained. Look at the scores in big 12 games compared to the records and f the losers in those games......teams lik Kansas score 35 points a game and have seasons where they win 1-2 games. Defense is less important in the big 12 than marching bands. We have 5 5-6 minute drives that end in points of some kind and force OU to punt 5 times we win, period.

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Oklahoma plays big 12 defenses. Chubb would've been a Heisman contender playing big 12 defenses for 4 years.....he'd have surpassed walker in yards gained. Look at the scores in big 12 games compared to the records and f the losers in those games......teams lik Kansas score 35 points a game and have seasons where they win 1-2 games. Defense is less important in the big 12 than marching bands. We have 5 5-6 minute drives that end in points of some kind and force OU to punt 5 times we win, period.

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You're getting Kansas and K-State confused. Kansas averages 18.7 ppg (just behind Tenn). KSU averages 32.1 ppg.

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KSU got held to 7 by Vandy

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I know. Early in the year when they hadn't found their offense. Not sure why you mentioned it though. He said 1 win Kansas averaged 35 points per game. I just said he was probably thinking of K-State, who went 7-5.

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I really think you'll be surprised at how well we run the ball against you guys.

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I really think you'll be surprised at how well we stuff the run against you guys.