What other message boards are saying (Oklahoma Post Game Edition)

[Nerwen Aldarion]

You gotta take the L and tip your cap when a road team beats you by double digits. Heupel took his foot off the gas because he still respects his Alma mater. Good luck to Brent Venables moving forward but I don’t see it.

I don’t think he took his foot off the gas because of his Alma mater but because it wasn’t worth risking injuries

 

[marcusluvsvols]

LOL. They're complaining about the officiating? That's what kept them in the game.

Exactly
The refs were atrocious
They singlehandedly changed the outcome of this game by 14 points with the ghost holding call on that huge run down to their 9yd line, and the bullcrap roughing the passer AFTER a tipped ball which gave them a fresh set of downs at our 4yd line.

Not to mention that they NEVER called a single holding penalty against OK despite obvious holds on passing downs AND running plays....never once called pass interference on OK either.

We beat a top 15 team handily on the road tonite....plus a couple refs...despite playing Johnny Majors 3 runs off tackle and punt offense for the entire 2nd half. This game could have easily been a 24 point win instead of just 10 points. Easily.

 

[BeardedVol]

-The refs obviously protected Tennessee tonight. Clear as day.

 

[cherokeeeVOL]

Lord that’s a serious amount of butthurt and I’m very disappointed in them. Let’s be honest, this was a statement program win. Defensive slugfest and this is NOT what we’ve been known for under Heupel. Very significant. This is what “taking the next step” looks like.

 

[CNCVol88]

I don’t think he took his foot off the gas because of his Alma mater but because it wasn’t worth risking injuries

This. The field was a disaster zone. We don't need to risk injury when our defense was destroying them.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Welcome to the SEC Pal!

Pretty much this.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

This. The field was a disaster zone. We don't need to risk injury when our defense was destroying them.

Exactly, Campbell got hurt at the end of the first half. He came back but not 100%. We didn’t need to risk more of our OLine

 

[marcusluvsvols]

I don’t think he took his foot off the gas because of his Alma mater but because it wasn’t worth risking injuries

Agreed. I didnt think about this while playing the 2nd half, but it was very wise to run the ball every down with our 2 best tackles hurt IMO. Kept Nico clean. Also we didnt use him much on QB runs...which there were lots of RPO plays he handed off that could have been big gains if Nico kept the ball. He was clearly told to hand the ball off rather than reading the defensive end like usual IMO.

 

[kell7517]

It would not have made any difference no matter who started at qb for ou.

I agree. The Hawkins guy did ok when we sat back and rushed only 3 so the clock would continue to run. Had he played all game. We would’ve stacked the line, brought heat all night and dared him to beat us with his arm and no doubt he couldn’t do it.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

Agreed. I didnt think about this while playing the 2nd half, but it was very wise to run the ball every down with our 2 best tackles hurt IMO. Kept Nico clean. Also we didnt use him much on QB runs...which there were lots of RPO plays he handed off that could have been big gains if Nico kept the ball. He was clearly told to hand the ball off rather than reading the defensive end like usual IMO.

Yeah it just wasn’t worth it. We were up enough and our D was playing so well that it was better to take an ugly W and live to fight another day. Lots of SEC games left

 

[Hydro556]

Given we are going to be playing Oklahoma about 3 out of every 5 years, Heupel is going to have to get over his affection for Oklahoma, at least when we play them. Him not wanting to show them any disrespect could have very well cost us the game.

Has zero to do with affection. Was the right strategy to win.

 

[RockyTop140]

Them tears are salty!!!

 

[B81]

This fan base is delusional. They think the refs were bad? Heck they gave them an extra time out in the second half because they forgot to write down that they should have been charged one in lieu of a 10 second run off.

 

[cgrish]

Nice to see some of them are thinking what might have been. Maybe they should think about what might’ve been if we hadn’t let off the gas.

We let off the gas big time, actually the whole game on offense was played very conservative. We could of scored 50 with the offense opened up. Really do not understand why he did not open up the offense.

 

[DC_Vol]

This fan base is delusional. They think the refs were bad? Heck they gave them an extra time out in the second half because they forgot to write down that they should have been charged one in lieu of a 10 second run off.

In fairness, it’s just one guy on a message board. Not their entire fan base.

Go look at the game thread - we’ve got plenty of idiots too.

 

[Cdywolfe]

Exactly
The refs were atrocious
They singlehandedly changed the outcome of this game by 14 points with the ghost holding call on that huge run down to their 9yd line, and the bullcrap roughing the passer AFTER a tipped ball which gave them a fresh set of downs at our 4yd line.

Not to mention that they NEVER called a single holding penalty against OK despite obvious holds on passing downs AND running plays....never once called pass interference on OK either.

We beat a top 15 team handily on the road tonite....plus a couple refs...despite playing Johnny Majors 3 runs off tackle and punt offense for the entire 2nd half. This game could have easily been a 24 point win instead of just 10 points. Easily.

Agree but those 2 plays were a 21 point difference. Without the roughing they review that play and It’d have wound up being a defensive TD for us.

 

[cgrish]

Yeah idk about that. Our play calling was pretty awful in the second half.

Thats what they meant, very conservative play calling

 

[IUGradVol]

That OU-Auburn game next week might be a bit brutal to watch. Neither offense is that good.

 

[Rockytoptilidie]

I will say this: Like UT, message board fans are not indicative of real life.

At the game, these were the nicest people I have ever met.

They welcomed us, thanked us, and were just nice.

Ignore these bozos.

 

[cgrish]

Exactly
The refs were atrocious
They singlehandedly changed the outcome of this game by 14 points with the ghost holding call on that huge run down to their 9yd line, and the bullcrap roughing the passer AFTER a tipped ball which gave them a fresh set of downs at our 4yd line.

Not to mention that they NEVER called a single holding penalty against OK despite obvious holds on passing downs AND running plays....never once called pass interference on OK either.

We beat a top 15 team handily on the road tonite....plus a couple refs...despite playing Johnny Majors 3 runs off tackle and punt offense for the entire 2nd half. This game could have easily been a 24 point win instead of just 10 points. Easily.

Yes, why did Hype do this?

 

[ENGRVOL]

Kinda surprised by the number of OU fans who think the OU offense gave Tennessee the game and the OU defense shut down Tennessee. I don’t think we watched the same game

 

[B81]

In fairness, it’s just one guy on a message board. Not their entire fan base.

Go look at the game thread - we’ve got plenty of idiots too.

Isn’t this thread a compilation of their board?

 

[Volwonder1]

-This game was over midway through the 2nd quarter. Heupel knew it and ran the clock the rest of the game. It could have been really ugly.

-It's easy to win in Knoxville. OU Will do just that next season with an even better defense and a much improved offense.

-We could play Tennessee 10 times and not beat them. Completely dominant

-This is an all-timer “Score kinda close, but really a blowout” kinda game.

-Tennessee did not impress. After all I've heard, I expected a lot more than that.

-Tennessee will lose 4 games this year. Not impressed.

-Tennessee would have thrown the ball down the field more if they needed to…and I think they’d have had success doing so. So hard to say we’d have won, we’d have been more competitive. Tennessee would not have spent most of the 2nd half running the ball into a loaded defensive front.

-Not saying Tennessee isn’t a good team, but not nearly as impressive as what we were sold.

-34 yards rushing and 4 turnovers and lost by 10 to the best offense in the SEC.

-Great win for Josh.....happy for him after what happened here. Meritocracy always beats nepotism.

-We might have won this game if Hawkins was the starter. We will be ok moving forward.

-Hats off to Heupel for the good sportsmanship. Thought he’d run up the score. Glad I was wrong.

-Sooo… the ref with the Tennessee accent was reviewing everything?

-Defense did very well except for some downfield passes to Bru. Heupel knew he had the win so opted to not go for the total kill or at least that's what I think happened in the 2nd half. Hawkins shows to be the next direction.

-Tennessee is the luckiest team on the planet that we didn’t start Hawkins. We would’ve blown them out.

-I’m pissed because Tennessee isn’t even a good team.

-The refs obviously protected Tennessee tonight. Clear as day.

The refs protected Tennessee lmao. That’s the funniest comment I’ve seen. The refs are the only reason Oklahoma even was in the game. I can’t count how many times big plays went Oklahomas way due to the refs or how many big plays called back on UT. The timing of the calls were also very suspicious or skeptical. But a double digit win on the road to open SEC play against a top 15 team! I’ll take it every time!

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Them tears are salty!!!

And they’re tasty.

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

I understand the bravado because they are OU and they’ve won a ton of football games in the last 25 years, but what have they seen from a Venables coached team that makes them think they can just automatically put the game in Neyland in the W column? Because I think we beat them by 30+ if this game was in Neyland based on what I saw today lol.