Earlier this week, when former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts picked Oklahoma as his transfer destination, the country’s best offense in 2018 added another weapon for next season. The move cleared the way for the Sooners to stop blocking Austin Kendall—another highly-regarded quarterback looking for a change after coming off the bench in ’18—from being immediately eligible as a graduate transfer from Oklahoma to West Virginia.
The story was a factory for takes, from those proclaiming Oklahoma a playoff lock to those deriding the hypocrisy of the Sooners’ constraint on Kendall, but strip those away from a second and consider just the bare bones of these moves: At Alabama, the No.