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But, what if we win?? 🤷‍♂️

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But, What if We Win??

This Tennessee matchup is a great spot for OU this week for a lot of reasons.

- Tennessee opponents are 2-7. The 2 Ws are both NC State (W Carolina and La Tech, unimpressively). They've played nobody, but have looked incredibly sharp doing so and considered Top 5 by most.

- They're bringing a Fr QB to his first road game. He's made mistakes this year already, against fully bad competition.

- Our atmosphere is going to be it's best in a decade (or more) at night. Tough spot to be exposed to adversity for Nico/Heupel.

- We should get (at least) Dolby and Anderson back this week. Anderson (and hopefully Hickman) potentially changes everything on O if they're right.

Feels a lot like the Texas game spot to me last year, except we're at home. We came out of that Defense-led win with the Heisman frontrunner and some considering us the #1 team in the country (TX had just whipped Bama in Tuscaloosa). It was proof of concept of the team we've been trying to build under BV. I don't expect an offensive explosion, but I don't think it's impossible for our Defense to create favorable offensive opportunities (or even a score).

If we can continue to produce turnovers, there's no reason we can't win a close game with both teams scoring in the 20-30 range. That's SEC football. We can't (and don't want to) shoot it out, like we did under Riley.

If we win, we will be the new Top 5 hotness and universally considered a playoff team; and the conversation will shift to the not-impossible reality that our defense is actually elite and good enough for us to win ANY game on the schedule.

Believe!
 
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