Brent Venables<\/a> said after the game. \u201cNothing that really surprised you. I love the refusing to flinch mindset. I felt like we knocked them back for a good part of the night. From a physicality standpoint, thought that was a big part of the game. The piles consistently went in our direction. All those little piles that go forward add up to a lot.\u201d<\/p>\nOU has one of the more impressive resumes in the country this season. With wins over No. 21 Michigan, Auburn, South Carolina and No. 25 Tennessee, and two quality losses against ranked opponents in No. 11 Texas and No. 6 Ole Miss, it\u2019s hard to argue Oklahoma\u2019s ranking. <\/p>\n
And the Sooners still have a lot in front of them. If they can take care of business these final three weeks, they will get in. And even if OU doesn\u2019t win out, the door won\u2019t be completely shut. But it will need some help. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou get one shot, you get one kill, that\u2019s it,\u201d Venables said. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to go back and do this again so making the most of our opportunity, figuring it out, finding a way. My hope and my expectation and my belief is that we\u2019ll be able to build on that and all the things I just said become part of our identity of this football team \u2014\u00a0leaving your mark and doing something that maybe for some people\u2019s unthinkable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OU is No. 12 in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the 2025 season. The Sooners are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,6344,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-272688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}