Oklahoma
Texas and Oklahoma enter rivalry week with QB questions
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two rivals, two quarterback harm conundrums.
Texas and Oklahoma are getting ready for this weekend’s annual matchup in Dallas with huge questions at crucial place on the sector.
Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian at the very least has the luxurious of two strong choices. His choice on who begins revolves round Quinn Ewers, a big-armed freshman who’s getting more healthy by the day after lacking three video games with a clavicle harm, and Hudson Card, an skilled backup who’s steadily bettering every week.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables, in the meantime, has to arrange his offense for the likelihood that starter Dillon Gabriel received’t play after taking a tough blow to the top that knocked him out of final week’s blowout loss to TCU.
Oklahoma (3-2, 0-2 Large 12) acknowledged after the sport that Gabriel was within the crew’s concussion protocol, however the Sooners provided no updates Monday on his situation. Pitt switch Davis Beville got here on for Gabriel after the harm and will get the beginning.
Texas (3-2, 1-1) followers are wanting to see Ewers return to the sector. His slingshot proper arm and lengthy, golden mullet coiffure has been little greater than a Texas tease up to now. The five-star highschool recruit from the Dallas space transferred from Ohio State and received the job over Card, who began the primary two video games in 2021.h
Ewers received his debut over Louisiana-Monroe and was flinging the ball everywhere in the area within the first quarter within the second recreation in opposition to No. 1 Alabama. However Ewers was injured late within the first quarter when a tackler drove him onerous into the turf.
Sarkisian has refused to supply a lot in the way in which of updates on Ewers, however the freshman dressed for final week’s 38-20 win over West Virginia. With Ewers watching and accessible to play, Card had a profession night time with 303 yards passing and three touchdowns.
And whereas most anticipate Ewers to return to the sector within the Cotton Bowl in opposition to Oklahoma. Sarkisian nonetheless wouldn’t say that Monday.
“My philosophy is fairly easy: Play the man that I feel provides us one of the best probability to achieve success, whether or not he’s the starter, the backup, the recent hand or not,” Sarkisian stated.
The Texas-Oklahoma rivalry within the Cotton Bowl, with its 50-50 cut up of Longhorns and Sooners followers and wild momentum swings, could be onerous on younger quarterbacks, and even any participant who hasn’t skilled it. The bus experience via the huge crowds on the Texas state truthful, and the run via the stadium tunnel into the pandemonium contained in the partitions, can shake the knees of first-timers.
Texas working again Bijan Robinson thinks Ewers can deal with it. Ewers didn’t appear overwhelmed by the ambiance of a file crowd of 105,213 when Texas performed Alabama, which escaped Austin with a 20-19 win on a area aim within the closing minute.
“That’s an enormous ambiance (in Dallas) to be part of, however he performed within the Alabama recreation.,” Robinson stated. “That was an enormous ambiance. I’d suppose this recreation wouldn’t be a complete lot totally different for him.”
Beville had tried simply two passes in a Sooners uniform earlier than Gabriel bought damage. He was 7 of 16 passing for 50 yards within the 55-24 loss to TCU.
Texas at the very least has two quarterbacks who grew up within the state and are acquainted with the passions that encompass the sport. Beville could not know what’s coming in Dallas.
“In the end, it’s gonna fall on myself to ensure whoever’s out there may be put in positions of success,” Sooners offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby stated Monday. “Create layups for guys and…shoot, once more, create a state of affairs the place we all know what the result goes to be earlier than we name the play.”
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Football Extends Lead With Long Touchdown
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys are searching for a large victory over South Dakota State. With a bit of fuel from Kirk Herbstreit picking the Jackrabbits, a program that has won two straight FCS National Championships, over the Cowboys.
Trying to start the 2024 season much more efficiently than the 2023 season, the Cowboys had a strong first half, holding a 17-6. They opened the second half with a second Ollie Gordon touchdown, though the Jackrabbits quickly responded.
The Jackrabbits’ first touchdown was on a three-play drive, which came a little easy and made it seem like they might be able to put some pressure on Oklahoma State.
The Cowboys’ veteran offense responded quickly, though, scoring in just six plays. This time, it was an Alan Bowman deep ball to Rashod Owens, who capped off the 58-yard touchdown.
.@luxury_owens12 first TD of the season is a 58-yard bomb from @alanbowman_ 😤 pic.twitter.com/ITjum2LMRO
— OSU Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) August 31, 2024
The game has gone just about as Oklahoma State could have hoped. Gordon begins his Heisman-hopeful campaign with a pair of touchdowns. The Cowboys have involved multiple wide receivers and the defense has shown improvement from a season ago.
Now, it’s up to Oklahoma State to keep their foot on the gas on both sides of the ball, finishing off an incredible win and getting off to a good start to their 2024 campaign.
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WATCH: Sooners on SI Oklahoma-Temple Postgame Wrap
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RANDALL SWEET
Randall is a recruiting analyst and staff writer at AllSooners focusing primarily on OU Football and the recruiting trail.
Working as a journalist, Randall has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and high school sports across the state.
A 2022 University of Oklahoma graduate, Randall hails from Lubbock, TX. While in college, Sweet wrote for the OU Daily in addition to working with Sooner Sports Pad and OU Nightly. Following his time at OU, Sweet served as the Communications Coordinator at Visit Oklahoma City before leaving to join the team at AllSooners. The West Texas native has bylines in the Norman Transcript and is a Staff Writer for Inside the Thunder.
Randall holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK.
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Kenyan Boarding School Celebrates 50th Class Reunion In Oklahoma
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Some traveled across states and others around the globe, but no matter the distance, being in Hulbert, Oklahoma, for Labor Day weekend was a must for graduates of Rift Valley Academy.
It’s been a while since the class of 1974 reminisced. Rift Valley Academy High School graduates live all around the world.
“And who would have known Oklahoma’s the center of the world,” said alumni Thad Peterson of Tanzania.
So, the class is celebrating its 50th high school reunion in Hulbert, Oklahoma.
“We’ve got people here from east Africa, from Europe, from Canada, from all over the United States, and so it’s just good to get back together and compare notes,” said alumni Mark Alison of Arkansas.
As they caught up on half a century of life, they looked back on their years spent together at their Kenyan boarding school.
“At first, it’s a little awkward because where do you start? 50 years covers a lot. But I think once we get chatting, it’s easy, it just sort of flows,” said graduate Donna Whitson of Texas.
Some classmates set up makeshift “dukas,” a Swahili word for store, to help the space feel a little more like Africa.
“Some beadwork or jewelry that they’ve made, or just some artifacts from Africa. A lot of us are downsizing, and so we brought some of those maybe for other people to take home,” Whitson said.
An opportunity for them to make their current homes feel like the ones from their teenage years.
“If you went to a big family reunion and you hadn’t seen these people in a long time, and it just really feels like that connection. We just really feel like a family; we still have that connection of home, which is Africa,” said Whitson.
With nearly all of their graduating class in attendance, they look forward to this weekend’s celebrations back together again. “I think about the common heritage that we share that is very different and unique, and we’re just privileged to be able to celebrate it together,” said Whitson.
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