As the Oklahoma Sooners built their 5-0 record to start the season, the national narrative was the Sooners hadn’t played anyone as good as the Texas Longhorns.
This was a huge test for an Oklahoma Sooners team looking to remind everyone what Oklahoma football was all about. In their 34-30 win, the Sooners passed the test with flying colors and announced they are for real in 2023.
They’re 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the Big 12. They’ve exorcised the 49-0 and 6-7 demons from the 2022 season, and this team looks much more like the team many thought they’d get when Brent Venables was hired to be the head coach.
The Sooners are a tough team, emulating their head coach. They have a never-say-die attitude, battling to the very last whistle of the game. In our five takeaways from the win, I discussed that it’s time to “Believe in BV.”
[autotag]Dillon Gabriel[/autotag] was phenomenal, and the defense came up clutch in huge moments despite giving up a lot of yards.
The win puts the Sooners in the driver’s seat to get back into the Big 12 title game for the first time since 2020 and will assuredly put them into the top 10 when the polls come out.
But as we revel in the win, here’s how social media reacted to Oklahoma’s 34-30 win over the Texas Longhorns.