{"id":124213,"date":"2025-09-06T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124213\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:12:11","slug":"michigan-vs-oklahoma-live-updates-college-football-week-2-score-prediction-odds-and-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124213\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan vs. Oklahoma live updates: College football Week 2 score, prediction, odds and latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ll be sharing more excerpts from from Austin Meek and Chris Vannini\u2019s excellent Michigan-Oklahoma preview over the next hour or so (really, you should just read the whole thing here<\/a>) but I wanted to highlight this quote from Sooners coach Brent Venables contained in the piece, talking about Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcac \u201cHe\u2019s a little different. He reminds me a lot of Trevor Lawrence: quick, decisive, accurate, poised, tough, consistent. There\u2019s a reason he was the No. 1 player in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comparison to Lawrence jumps out, considering the context. Lawrence\u2019s star has dimmed quite a bit given his struggles over the past couple of seasons with the NFL\u2019s Jacksonville Jaguars. But it\u2019s important to remember just how good he was at Clemson. <\/p>\n

Lawrence\u2019s dismantling of a loaded, Nick Saban-coached Alabama team in the 2018 national championship game remains one of the single most impressive college quarterbacking performances I\u2019ve ever seen. It made him the No. 1 quarterback prospect on NFL draft boards for essentially two years straight. If not for a historically dominant LSU team led by another all-time great college quarterback in Joe Burrow, Lawrence may very well have two national championship rings.<\/p>\n

You know who doesn\u2019t need reminding of Lawrence\u2019s greatness in college? Venables, the Clemson defensive coordinator while Lawrence was there. His unit had to go up against Lawrence every day in practice for three straight years. He saw Lawrence\u2019s excellence as a true freshman up close in 2018 before just about everyone else got a chance to.<\/p>\n

And now he\u2019s saying he sees some of Lawrence in Bryce Underwood. High praise indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll be sharing more excerpts from from Austin Meek and Chris Vannini\u2019s excellent Michigan-Oklahoma preview over the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-124213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}