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OU receives to start the 2nd half.  If the Sooners can drive to a TD, Georgia will really be in a hole.

Yep agree on all counts.  There were a whole lotta shoulda woulda couldas in that game.  Sucks to lose, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Congrats to UGa.  They fought back admirably and pulled it out.  I’ll be cheering for the Dawgs in the NC game for sure.

Hate to get into finger pointing and blame, but I'm just a fan so that's what fans do.

OU's kicker/punter lost this game.

That squib fail before halftime changed the game.  The momentum was given away going into the locker room.  Mentally, a 2 TD deficit is different than a 17 point deficit.  Georgia had a little more life than they would have had.

And then came the shoddy punts.  You punt for a reason - to turn the field around.  If you can't do that you may as well go for it.

But if we want to avoid blame and call it a team loss, well - OU lost this game because they had trouble turning the field around, and the end of the 1st half was a sign of things to come.

I thought OU's play calling creativity was amazing the 1st quarter - and I don't mean the trick plays, just the all around assortment of run/pass utilization of both the players and the field.

The 2nd half was different.  Snap ball, roll right, throw.  OU only utilized half the field.  I don't think Baker went back to weak side the entire 2nd half.  And OT was more of the same.

As a Longhorn - the following is an expected comment, but I will make it anyway.  I'm not sold on Lincoln Riley.

We've all seen too many coaches in CFB get carried by a great QB, only to flop otherwise.  Let's see what Riley does next year.  This year basically tells us nothing about him.

I think the Rose bowl was in fact the championship game

Both Georgia and OU are better then Alabama

Bold statement above.  More would argue that Clemson-Bama was the game.  We'll see shortly.
But as for Georgia - look out for those guys in the future.  That guy is a freshman QB?  Are you kidding me.  And then you've got a defensive HC.  They have both sides covered, and should be a force to be reckoned with for quite some time.

I will fault Mike Stoops for Georgia's final TD run.

OU had been burned on that play twice already.  I figured they would have an answer when I saw Georgia shift into that formation.

But no answer at all.

game was over at that point, merely needed a chip shot FG for the "W"

Didn't OU miss a chip shot on the series before?
I never count a FG in college ball till it crosses thru the uprights.