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Last look back at OU-Mizzou: Sooners 'outplayed, outcoached'
Published: 10/24/2010 11:00 PM
Last Modified: 10/24/2010 11:00 PM

How I saw Oklahoma’s loss at Missouri Saturday night…

What’s been building for 2½ years is finally official: The Sooners have one of the worst placekicking situations in college football history. Jimmy Stevens’ 30-yard quacker and Patrick O’Hara’s opening kickoff (strong wind at his back and he one-hops it to the 14, setting up the touchdown return) make it so.

If OU’s defensive tackles took a step forward against Iowa State, and I thought they did, they dropped 10 back against Missouri. Creased in the run game, no factor in the pass rush.

Roy Finch looked livelier than DeMarco Murray. Unlike Murray and Mossis Madu, he didn’t drop the ball. Seems he’s earned 15-20 touches a game.

Linebackers Tom Wort and Travis Lewis, so good against Texas and Iowa State, were picked on mercilessly in Mizzou’s passing game. They’ll both bounce back, but Saturday night wasn’t anything for either to remember.

How two others saw the Sooners…

Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com: “The BCS computers boosted the Sooners atop the sport. Clearly, the computers had never seen them play. Oklahoma is a young team, prone to lapses in concentration and mistakes that its talent has enabled it to overcome.

“Missouri, not Oklahoma, played like a team accustomed to having ‘College GameDay’ on campus and a national television audience. The Sooners, not the Tigers, self-destructed with three turnovers, two in the red zone.”

Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com: “Down by nine with six minutes left, OU coach Bob Stoops strangely elected to go for a two-point conversion knowing that failure would leave the Sooners two scores down. A simple extra point would have made it at least a one-possession game. Landry Jones' pass was incomplete.

“’I don't see why that is even a question,’ Stoops said.

“Good, keep thinking the way. It makes it easier to confirm that the Sooners were outplayed and outcoached.”

-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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Reader Comments 6 Total
markal918 (2 years ago)
WOW cant you just call it like it is.. OU was not that bad... MO was just that good... you have to give htem credit were it is due.. MO should be ranked higher in my opinion.. A head of BSU for sure.
markal918 (2 years ago)
and I dont get all the talk about going for 2 at that point.. you had to do it at some point.. why was doing their the issue..? who cares.. you had to convert one two pointer... either way.. so what is the point.. I agree with bobs comment.
ouhawkster (2 years ago)
Agree with marlal918. I would much rather know I need to have a second score with 6 minutes left than to fail a two point try on a last second touchdown and know I need another score with 13 seconds left. To me it is good strategy.
Glenn616 (2 years ago)
I disagree with both of you. When you are down by nine with six minutes left, you kick the extra point. You don't go for two unless you absolutely have to go for two. By kicking the extra point, you are only down by one possession. At least you're still in the game. If you miss the two point attempt, the ball game is over. You have a 1 in 5 chance of making a two point conversion. You have at least a 9 in 10 chance of making an extra point. Kick the extra point, keep yourself in the game, and put more pressure on the other team.
ouhawkster (2 years ago)
But Glenn, you still have to go for two at some point. What is the difference between a 1 and 5 chance now or later? With six minutes left you can still score twice (it happens all the time). Like I said, I would much rather know I need to score twice with 6 minutes left than to know I need to score again with a few seconds left. Also, if the other team is able to get a late field goal, if you had made the two point conversion it is the difference of having to get an extra field goal or touchdown late in the game. Kick the extra point or miss the two point conversion, either way you have to get two touchdowns if the other team gets that late field goal. I personally think it is a good strategy. Definitely not what I would call a bad coaching move.
Top Flight (2 years ago)
Maybe he was thinking about going for two if we scored twice to win the game instead of tie it up
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Tulsa World Sports Writer Guerin Emig has covered University of Oklahoma football and men's basketball for the Tulsa World since 2004. He lives in Norman, where he keeps the fact that he is a University of Kansas graduate on the down low.

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Tulsa World Sports Writer Eric Bailey covered TU sports before coming over to the OU beat. He came to the Tulsa World in September 2004 after working eight years at the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. He attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas, where he was a 1996 Chips Quinn scholar, a national award given to minority journalism students.

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