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OU football: Sooners abandoned the run vs. Kansas State and it proved costly
by RYAN ABER
Published: Mon, October 28, 2019 1:15 AM Updated: Mon, October 28, 2019 1:43 AM
https://oklahoman.com/article/56453...-the-run-vs-kansas-state-and-it-proved-costly
NORMAN — The question was simple.
“Do you wish you’d gotten them the ball more?” one of the many reporters crowded in the small room asked, bringing up Oklahoma’s tailback combination of Kennedy Brooks and Trey Sermon.
“Yeah,” Riley said succinctly. “It’s definitely — you know it got tough there at the end of the game just with the scenario of having to score a bunch and in a short amount of time, so that obviously was a factor. But yeah, we didn’t run the ball the way that we’re accustomed to running it from the tailback position.”
Brooks and Sermon combined for just six carries — three each — in Saturday’s stunning 48-41 loss to Kansas State. The pair combined for just 11 yards.
And while certainly the way the game played out in the second half dictated that the Sooners try to push the ball through the air to close the gap quickly, it wasn’t until the Wildcats extended their lead to 18 with 5:34 to play in the third quarter that Oklahoma really was forced to abandon the run.
But they’d done it much earlier when it came to the running backs.
The only second-half carry by either tailback came on Oklahoma’s first offensive play of the second half, when Brooks gained 5 yards.
This for a group of tailbacks — those two plus Rhamondre Stevenson — that came into the game averaging nearly 8.5 yards per carry.
NewsOK: Oklahoma City News, Sports, Weather & Entertainment
OU football: Sooners abandoned the run vs. Kansas State and it proved costly
by RYAN ABER
Published: Mon, October 28, 2019 1:15 AM Updated: Mon, October 28, 2019 1:43 AM
https://oklahoman.com/article/56453...-the-run-vs-kansas-state-and-it-proved-costly
NORMAN — The question was simple.
“Do you wish you’d gotten them the ball more?” one of the many reporters crowded in the small room asked, bringing up Oklahoma’s tailback combination of Kennedy Brooks and Trey Sermon.
“Yeah,” Riley said succinctly. “It’s definitely — you know it got tough there at the end of the game just with the scenario of having to score a bunch and in a short amount of time, so that obviously was a factor. But yeah, we didn’t run the ball the way that we’re accustomed to running it from the tailback position.”
Brooks and Sermon combined for just six carries — three each — in Saturday’s stunning 48-41 loss to Kansas State. The pair combined for just 11 yards.
And while certainly the way the game played out in the second half dictated that the Sooners try to push the ball through the air to close the gap quickly, it wasn’t until the Wildcats extended their lead to 18 with 5:34 to play in the third quarter that Oklahoma really was forced to abandon the run.
But they’d done it much earlier when it came to the running backs.
The only second-half carry by either tailback came on Oklahoma’s first offensive play of the second half, when Brooks gained 5 yards.
This for a group of tailbacks — those two plus Rhamondre Stevenson — that came into the game averaging nearly 8.5 yards per carry.
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- Hurts has fumbles three times in 103 carries this season, losing two. Saturday, he fumbled on the game’s first drive, though offensive lineman Tyrese Robinson recovered it
- “They game-planned very well against us,” center Creed Humphrey said. “They did some things that we weren’t really prepared for. I think on our part we could have done some things. We could have adjusted better than we did.”
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Where: Owen Field
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