The cruel reality, however, tells a slightly different story. While the Sooners came out on top in wins over TCU and Texas the past two weekends, those victories weren’t without quite a bit of anguish in the closing minutes, with the outcome still in some doubt.
In both games, Oklahoma has built double-digit leads, only to allow their opponent to strike quickly and with relative ease and get back in the game, turning a two-or three-possession deficit into a one-possession contest with ample time remaining to seize victory from the jaws of defeat.
We all know there was a good ending in both cases, and a win is a win, but you have to wonder, all things being equal, if that is a sustainable scenario going forward.