Regardless of who wins the starting quarterback job for the Sooners, their primary responsibility is going to be to hand the ball off to Samaje Perine and a deeply talented stable of running backs. Oklahoma heads into the 2015 season in the best shape at running back they've been for a long time.
"We have the best backfield in the country and we're going to use it," new Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said to a crowd at the Norman Citizens Advisory Board Coaches Luncheon on Wednesday afternoon. To assume that Riley is coming to OU just to throw the football is an extremely false assumption and the fact that he isn't going to do that is the primary reason the Sooners could be back in the hunt in 2015.