Remember those years when Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray were launching passes downfield to speedy, open Sooner receivers in full stride for huge gains, even touchdowns, and Oklahoma running backs were gaining six yards a pop and producing 1,000-yard seasons?
Those Oklahoma offenses were among the very best in college football. Flash forward nearly a decade, and we have a complete role reversal between the Sooner offensive and defensive units.
Not all that surprising, really, that when you bring in Brent Venables, one of college football’s most respected and accomplished defensive minds, to replace the offensive genius but defensively challenged Lincoln Riley, the Oklahoma defense would rise to similar levels of superiority on a national scale…