Neither OU nor Texas looked nearly as good as they should've. A hangover the week after would be understandable. Two weeks coming off a bye....there's some things they need to get cleaned up.
I thought SC would clobber Utah. Exciting ending though.
And Texas' QB Evers left the game with an injured shoulder (or collarbone?). I haven't seen anything about how long he'll be out.
I thought that Utah would beat USC without the exciting ending.
And I think that USC is more likely to wind up with four losses than with just its current two.
When Lincoln Riley (a.k.a. Muleshoe) left OU to go to USC, there was much gnashing of teeth in Sooner Nation. No OU HFC had left for another college coaching job since Jim Tatum was left (or possibly told not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out) to go to Maryland after the 1946 season. Also, you may remember that before Brian Kelly took the LSU job, it was rumored that Muleshoe was going there. He went to great pains to assure OU, the recruits, the recruits' parents, and anybody else who would listen the the LSU rumors were unfounded, that he was staying at OU for the long haul. Then, like a thief in the night, he flew off to Los Angeles.
But there was already considerable dissatisfaction with this pattern: 2017, lost in CFP Semi in 2OT; 2018, lost in CFP Semi by 11 pts; 2019, lost in CFP Semi (to LSU) by 35 pts; 2020, Big 12 champs, won in the non-CFP Sugar Bowl; 2021, non-Big 12 champs (won in the Alamo Bowl with Bob Stoops coaching).
In the exchanges of pleasantries between OU fans and USC fans via social media, the former told the latter that they would soon regret their home-run hire.
There was much laughter among the USC fans and USC media boosters like Colin Cowherd. They are not laughing now.
