The time for talk is over and the time to put that talk into action starts on Saturday against Arkansas State. Everyone understands that how Oklahoma’s defense goes in 2023 will determine how much success they have as a football team.
When you welcome a quarterback with a career completion percentage under 50% and doesn’t run the football all that effectively, you have to dominate the game. J.T. Shrout won’t carve them up through the air like the quarterbacks they’ll face against SMU and Tulsa, which will allow the Sooners to focus on stopping the run to put Shrout in third and long situations.
If they can do that, they’ll flirt with a shutout of the Red Wolves.
Oklahoma will dominate this game through the first three quarters before emptying the bench in the fourth. If they get on the board, it’ll be late in the game as the Sooners play out the clock.
Oklahoma 50, Arkansas State 7
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