The Las Vegas oddsmakers had made the high-scoring Oklahoma football team a 22-point favorite. The Sooners barely reached that many points on their side of the scoreboard.
Saturday’s much-anticipated showdown with former longtime conference opponent Nebraska was another just-enough performance by Oklahoma, something that is deeply concerning for a team that currently sits in the No. 3 spot in the national rankings.
The Sooners, now 3-0 heading into the Big 12 portion of the schedule, did enough to win on Saturday, defeating a Nebraska team that isn’t anywhere close to what it used to be, 23-16.
Oklahoma came into the game with Nebraska and the 50th anniversary of the 1971 “Game of the Century” between these same two blue-blood national brands, leading the nation in scoring, averaging 58.