Last year’s contest marked the ninth-straight win for the Oklahoma Sooners over the West Virginia Mountaineers. Unlike the previous six, the Sooners struggled to score, needing a last-second field goal from [autotag]Gabe Brkic[/autotag] to seal the deal.
The win a year ago also marked the last significant workload for 2022 bell cow running back [autotag]Eric Gray[/autotag].
Against a tough Mountaineers defensive front that featured [autotag]Dante Stills[/autotag] and [autotag]Akheem Mesidor[/autotag] (now with Miami), Gray and the Sooners offensive line struggled to get the running game going. He carried the ball 12 times for 38 yards. Though it was a rough day on the ground, Gray found a way to make an impact through the air on the first drive of the game.
With the Sooners facing a 4th and 4, [autotag]Spencer Rattler[/autotag] threw a swing pass out to Gray who worked his way down the left sideline for a 38-yard gain to set the Sooners up with a first and goal at the eight-yard line. Three plays later, [autotag]Spencer Rattler[/autotag] found [autotag]Austin Stogner[/autotag] for a five-yard touchdown to make it a 7-7 game.
After both teams scored on their opening drive, a slugfest ensued and Oklahoma came out on top after Rattler orchestrated a game-winning drive to set up Brkic’s field goal as time expired.
This year should be a return to the high-scoring matchups that we’ve seen in the years prior as both defenses give up around 30 points per game.
Let’s take a look at the all-time series stats from Winsipedia.
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