Say it with me: Roll Tide. I had a lot of fun typing in “college football – run rule” into the Google machine in the first half last night. While it was somewhat shortlived, reading the following terms and considering how they applied to the situation about OU football made my day:
A mercy rule, slaughter rule, knockout rule, or skunk rule ends a two-competitor sports competition earlier than the scheduled endpoint if one competitor has a very large and presumably insurmountable scoring lead over the other. It is called the mercy rule because it spares further humiliation for the loser.