And for the fourth time in five Playoff appearances, the Sooners failed to get past the semifinal round. The time, however, was the ugliest OU performance of all.
No. 1-seeded LSU had its way from the get go against Big 12 champion and No. 4-ranked Oklahoma. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, Sooner fans and the rest of college football world were wishing mercifully for the beatdown to be over.
The final score fairly well sums up what many of the experts had been projecting about OU’s slim-to-none chances against the tp-ranked Tigers: LSU 63, Oklahoma 28.