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Oklahoma football: Defense was the difference-maker at West Virginia

Kyler Murray and the Sooner offense were unstoppable, as always, but that wouldn’t have been enough to win the game and earn the top seed in this weekend’s Big 12 Championship were it not for two critical turnovers created by the highly criticized Oklahoma defense.

The Sooner defense, which has been among the worst in college football at the FBS level this season and very much out of character for a championship caliber team like Oklahoma, has only forced five fumbles all season, and two of those came on Friday night at West Virginia in what amounted to a Big 12 Championship elimination game.