Tag: Oklahoma Sooners Football

Oklahoma can change offensive coordinators. It can simplify the playbook, adjust its personnel groupings, and find different ways to get the football out of John…

At 4-4 with four conference games remaining, the Sooners have traded conversations about the College Football Playoff for a much more immediate concern: finding two wins to keep their 27-year bowl streak alive. Jason Witten inherits an offense in need of an identity, and Brent Venables faces a November that will define the season.

Ivan Carreon delivered a breakout performance, Owen Heinecke and Kip Lewis kept making plays, and Oklahoma found a few individual bright spots in a 42-25 loss to South Carolina. But the offensive line’s continued struggles—and a defensive collapse that surrendered 521 yards—overshadowed nearly everything else.

Kip Lewis made program history, Ivan Carreon found the end zone twice, and Tate Sandell moved into the Oklahoma record book. But a handful of individual accomplishments couldn’t overcome another frustrating afternoon for the Sooners.

Oklahoma’s fourth-quarter production couldn’t hide another afternoon of offensive dysfunction. With the Sooners falling to 4-4 and the crowd turning on Ben Arbuckle, the questions surrounding the offensive coordinator are getting harder to ignore.