“We’ve won at a level that 99.9 percent of the programs out there would kill for,” Sooner head coach Lincoln Riley said to reporters, including Tyler Palmateer of the Norman Transcript, on Monday following the Texas loss.
The standard for Oklahoma football is extremely high — so high, in fact, that one loss becomes a subject of serious concern all across the Sooner Nation, not to mention the rest of the college football universe.
The reality is Oklahoma’s position at this stage of the season is no different than it was last season and in 2015.