Saturday Takeaways: Oklahoma in crisis and backup QBs galore

4 takeaways and rather more from an exhilarating Week 6 in school soccer. For a weekend by which just one top-10 crew received by lower than 10 factors (and it occurred to be No. 1), there was end-to-end motion and some finishes we’ll be speaking about for a very long time.

What’s flawed with Oklahoma?

Barely greater than two weeks in the past, Oklahoma was ranked No. 6 within the nation and feeling no drop-off from the Lincoln Riley period. Our colleague and boss Stewart Mandel issued a mea culpa about his preseason prediction that the Sooners would battle this 12 months.

Stew ought to’ve caught to his weapons, as a result of two weeks later, the Sooners are all of a sudden going through their greatest disaster in additional than 20 years.

Their house loss to Kansas State was powerful however not unprecedented. Final week’s 55-24 loss at TCU was unhealthy, however there have been key accidents to think about. Saturday’s 49-0 Pink River Showdown loss to Texas, nonetheless, was traditionally unhealthy. And I imply historic.

It was the Sooners’ largest-ever loss to the Longhorns (earlier excessive margin of defeat: 33 factors), their worst shutout loss ever, their first shutout loss towards Texas since 1965 and their first shutout loss interval since 1998. 5 completely different gamers threw a move, combining for simply 39 yards. The offense with out injured quarterback Dillion Gabriel was nonexistent.