It’s routine.
Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma drop one inexplicable loss, win-out after that and then win the Big 12 Championship.
That was the truth once again in 2019, as Kansas State upset the Sooners 48-41 on Oct. 26 and the College Football Playoff committee just announced that Oklahoma is heading back to the College Football Playoff.
Oklahoma will take on No. 1 LSU in the 2019 College Football Playoff on Dec. 28. It is the third-straight year for Riley and the Sooners to make the College Football Playoff and the fourth in five years.
Oklahoma finished the season with a 30-23 overtime thrilling win over Baylor in the Big 12 Championship. The Sooners won four of their last five games by one possession.
They needed another Oregon loss, an Alabama loss or two, a Penn State loss to Minnesota, a Georgia loss and maybe a Utah loss. Chaos is what Oklahoma needed, and that is what the Sooners got.
In 2015, Clemson beat Oklahoma in 37-17 in the College Football Playoff. 2017, Georgia won a Rose Bowl classic in overtime over Oklahoma and in 2018, the Sooners loss 45-34 to Alabama.
No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 1 LSU will meet for the first time since the two met in the 2003 National Championship. The Sooners and Tigers will have three weeks off before meeting in Atlanta.
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