I'm not saying our DL guys don't give 100% effort, because they do, but it still is the coaches' fault for putting them in a position to fail. Every game we have lost in the last 3 years has been due to our DL getting dominated at the LoS. Why? Because they're too freaking small to stuff the run against a good Division 1A OL. You cannot expect 250 pound DTs to consistently clog up the middle against 320 pound OGs. They do yeoman's work down low, but they are put into a position where they cannot possibly succeed. This continues to be my biggest complaint about our team in recent years. The fact is that if OU had wanted to they could've run the ball up the middle every play and we never would've stopped it. We allowed one RB to set a career high and another (albeit very talented FR) RB to to get 100 yards in his first collegiate game.
Keon Newson played his little @$$ off today. He was the one defensive guy that was constantly around the ball and making plays. Like Option mentioned in another thread, however, he really needed to be more on Clayton, especially in the redzone. His first TD he was matched up with a LB...that ain't good. Another time he was matched up with Terrill Mayberry. Now I have faith in Mayberry to eventually be a good DB, but one on one with a serious Biletnikoff candidate in his first game of action? Not a good idea, IMO.
Omar is a playa. The dude made plays all game long with his feet. He didn't gain major yardage, but he used his feet to get into a position to get the ball to his weapons, who did damage. PJ Pope was especially effective catching the ball out of the backfield. Chuck Sharon continues to be the big playmaker on this offense as well. His fumble was very costly, but he still played a great game. Wish he could've hauled in that long ball down the right sideline where he had the cover-2 beat, but oh well. As we all know not even the best defenses can stop our offense.
I was hoping to see more from Cole Magner & Hawkins, but we have so many weapons that we can use some of them as decoys to free up the others if need be.
Possibly most impressive of all for our offense was our OL. We did not give up a single sack to Oklahoma's defense with a first time starting QB out there. He did a good job getting rid of the ball, but still that says something about that OL. If they can do that to OU they'll dominate the MAC.
My initial overall reaction is that we've looked the best of all the MAC teams I saw today. I didn't get to see any of the NIU game, but it looks like they gave Maryland another dogfight; this year in Maryland. UT & Miami(OH) looked like crap. Not surprising to see UT give up yards by the barrel, but damn I thought Miami would look better. Marshall falls (again) to the vaunted Trojans of Troy State (which is in Alabama for those curious
). All in all it is clear that this year's MAC is not last year's MAC. We are among the best in this conference again. The OU game is over, let's hope we can take care of business and run the table from hear on out. We should be favored in almost all of our remaining schedule, and running it is not out of the question. I was very impressed by our team today, hope they keep it up!
) but what it comes down to for me is that we had the ball late in the fourth quarter and we were still within two TDs (and two two pount conv 
). Anybody who isn't thrilled with that does not understand how good a team Oklahoma really is. 
