Hello Sooner fans and welcome to another gorgeous Saturday for college football. Gird up your loins and prepare yourself mentally for it to be another disastrous day for our Sooners. Our boys are fresh off a historical defeat against the rival Texas Longhorns, are losers of their last three games and are inexplicable favorites against the #19 ranked Kansas Jayhawks, a team that is almost certain to play over its head today in Norman.
The way I see it, three things need to happen for the Sooners to secure a victory. All are big ifs.
First, what crowd is on hand for the Sooners needs to be engaged and positive as long as possible. This team does not need the collective palpable anxiety of 90,000 weighing it down.
OFFENSE
Secondly, Dillon Gabriel needs to be set up for some early success. There has to be a scheme that takes advantage of what he does well (run) and what he does not (throw deep downfield). There are endless ways of doing this that do not include Gavin Freeman reverses.
DEFENSE
Third, the Sooners D needs to feed off the success of the offense. I want to see effort like we had at Nebraska. While these guys have been historically bad, it doesn't help that the offense can't stay on the field.
David Ogbegwu is my DPOG
SCORE
There is a very good chance the crowd is flat, Dillon Gabriel is below average and the sails on the defense lay slack. This would not bode well.
If the crowd is in it and stays in it after early success maybe the Sooners can string 60 minutes of competent enough football to beat the vaunted Kansas Jayhawks.
It takes all of my crimson colored glass optimism to say the Sooners can put up 31 and hold the Jayhawks to something less than that.
Sooners 31, Jayhawks 30
Boomer to the motherfuckin Sooner
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