OU-Missouri quick-hit: The ultimate heartbreak for Sooners
All the ties between OU and Missouri. All the drama between the injuries for both squads. But eventually, a game had to be played.
Nobody expected a masterpiece. Simply put? Just win. Didn’t matter how, just get the victory in Columbia. Instead, just, wow. A backbreaking 30-23 defeat to No. 24 Missouri on Saturday night that will be talked about for a long time.
Your quick-hit takeaways from the couch.
Fourth quarter fireworks
A fourth quarter to remember and then forget all at once.
Unreal.
Freshman running back Xavier Robinson provided the spark on the ensuing drive after OU went down 16-9. Then OU went into the bag of tricks with running back Taylor Tatum throwing an 18-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Arnold to tie it.
Pure chaos.
Next drive? Time for Billy Bowman. This was Bowman’s night, making big play after big play. He got a little help from Samuel Omosigho on this one.
Omosigho knocked the ball loose, and Bowman took it 43 yards for the touchdown with 2:00 left in the game.
Bananas.
A 16-9 deficit turned into an improbable 23-16 lead. But Mizzou kept punching back, with Theo Wease catching his second touchdown of the game to tie it with 1:03 left.
Then Arnold, man, the turnover no OU fan will forget. The opposite of Sooner Magic.
Arnold, trying to lead a game-winning drive in the final minute, instead fumbled and Missouri recovered it and scored the game’s ridiculous final touchdown.
A game that was a sleepwalking 9-3 at halftime turned into an incredible classic. Just not one OU fans will ever want to watch again.
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Oklahoma doesn’t survive beating Oklahoma
Head coach Brent Venables has, unfortunately, had to say this a bunch of times this season. Was it the opponent that beat OU? Or was it Oklahoma beating Oklahoma?
Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. You can’t have them, and you definitely cannot have them on the road. And OU had a bunch of them. Four. Four… four turnovers. You cannot do that.
Fumbles, muffed punts. A rough night.
The Schmit game
No, seriously. Think a lot OU fans knew there would be some field goals in this game. However, the trust in Zach Schmit? Not so much. But boy did he ever come up big.
Schmit drained three huge field goals in the first half, including a career-long 56-yarder as time expired in the first half.
That sequence was one of the rare examples of head coach Brent Venables using the clock and timeouts in an efficient manner.
Up next
Now comes the stretch all OU fans circled when the SEC schedule was released. The Sooners can rest up and try to get healthy because here it comes. OU (5-5 overall, 1-5 SEC) finishes vs. Alabama and at LSU for the final two weeks of the regular season. Use this bye weekend to its max potential, no other option. But man, what a heartbreak in Columbia.
