Oklahoma saw the third-worst defeat of the College Football Playoffs on Saturday, falling to Joe Burrow and LSU 63-28. Burrow threw seven first half touchdowns to lead the Tigers over Oklahoma. Here are three reasons why the Tigers dominated the Sooners on Saturday.
A game like this has been building for the Sooners
We’ve seen the foreshadowing of this game for awhile now, dating even back to last season. In last year’s Orange Bowl, Alabama jumped out to a 21-0 lead before Oklahoma could get back in the game. This year’s team does not have that capability. Offensively, we’ve seen this team struggle to put together drives, and have relied on chunk players like CeeDee Lamb heavily. Defensively, they’ve had moments of relapse, and couldn’t afford one against LSU, which they did. Today was a microcosm of all the bad moments of this season put together into one ugly game.
Joe Burrow is the greatest college football quarterback of all-time
A hyperbole, but also maybe not. Oklahoma as a program has never seen a passer the caliber of Burrow. They had absolutely no blueprint for how to prepare for the gunslinger. They spent weeks preparing for a starting NFL caliber quarterback. His seven first half touchdown passes reflect that.
LSU was better at pretty much everything
Simple, but effective. The Tigers dominated every facet of the game. No amount of Ronnie Perkins, Rhamondre Stevenson, or Delarrin Turner-Yell could have prevented the loss. Lessened? Sure. Prevented, no. LSU is light-years ahead of Oklahoma, and this hopefully eradicates any notion of anything more than a four-team playoff system.