The Oklahoma Sooners are 4-0 and a legitimate College Football Playoff contender. One look at their 44-24 defeat of West Virginia on Saturday will tell you as much. With that being said, here's 4 Things We've Learned About Oklahoma Through 4 Games.
4. The Defense Needs Work
If you take Oklahoma's 41-3 destruction of Tulsa out of the equation, you get an Oklahoma defense that has been put on their heels plenty of times over the course of the 2015 season so far. The Sooners D tightens up when they need to, but they need to step up soon and start limiting costly 3rd down conversions so Oklahoma's offense doesn't need to do heavy lifting every game out.
3. Sterling Shepard Is One Of The Game's Elite Receivers
Other wide receivers may get more national publicity that Shepard, but there isn't a more consistent big-play target in all college football. QB Baker Mayfield has a penchant for spreading the ball around, but he knows where his bread is buttered. Shepard had just 35 yards in the team's win over West Virginia on Saturday, but we expect a gaggle of 100-yard games before the season is through.
2. Oklahoma Is On The Level Of Baylor And TCU
This is an easy one. Coming into the season, most experts separated Baylor and TCU from the Big 12 pack thanks to a pair of dynamic, stretch-out-defenders-to-death offenses. Don't look now, but undefeated Oklahoma is just as good as those two teams if not better. The defense needs some polishing, but that's the case for Baylor and TCU as well.
1. Baker Mayfield Is Elite
Mayfield completed just 14-of-25 passes against West Virginia, but each completion average almost 23 yards en route to a 320-yard masterpiece by the Texas Tech transfer. We're buying on Mayfield big time -- so much so that we've got him pegged as a big-time Heisman Trophy candidate.
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