OU beat the odds of throwing no interceptions by a long shot as well. There were tipped balls in the air on several occasions and a couple of times a Bama defender had two hands on the ball. I doubt this game could be played 10 times without at least one interception by Bama in 9 of the games.The only reason they ever ate into the 28 point lead as significantly as the final score indicates is due:
1) The awful series that started with Brian Robinson calling a fair catch for ??? when we ought to have been starting near midfield or better with what was obviously going to be a big return by Jacobs. Heck knowing how Jacobs is with a head of steam, he may have just ran the dang thing back.
2) 2 mental errors and refs falling for some OU sideline chirp to negate the Irv Smith touchdown near the end of the half.
3) A pedantic, marginal overturn of a catch called on the field on 3rd and 10 for our first drive.
4) The decision to kneel instead of piling on some sugar on the scoreboard.
You take those first two out by cleaning up preventable mental mistakes. You can take the middle two out if it wasn't for that Dang Activist Officiating. The last one was the classy and game control thing to do.
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