Column: Oklahoma’s Historic Offensive Woes Are Way Worse Than Just Ugly Stats

Column: Oklahoma’s Historic Offensive Woes Are Way Worse Than Just Ugly StatsOklahoma is making the wrong kind of history in 2024.

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Just three years removed from a head coach who regularly set new college football standards for offensive proficiency and productivity, the OU offense — like a fish carcass, or some unidentified brown sludge — rests inertly at the very bottom of this year’s NCAA statistics.

Halfway through the season, research shows that OU is one of just four FBS teams nationally — and the only team from a Power 4 conference — that hasn’t produced a 200-yard passer, a 100-yard rusher or a 100-yard receiver.

 

The others are New Mexico State, Wyoming and Southern Mississippi.

 

Southern Miss gets a pass because the Eagles have used a two-quarterback system that has split the passing yards. In one game, USM actually threw for 397 yards but spread it out among three QBs.

 

Oklahoma hasn’t come close to 397 passing yards in any TWO game this season between sophomore Jackson Arnold and freshman Michael Hawkins Jr. The Sooners’ season-high as a team was 186 against Tennessee.

 

As a team, Oklahoma has just one 200-yard rushing game (220 against Temple), with no individuals reaching 100. The Sooners have had a player at 100 rushing yards in a game, but Arnold took a 3-yard loss late in the fourth quarter and finished with 97 net yards rushing against Tulane. Hawkins had 69 yards rushing in the win at Auburn. OU’s best game by a running back was freshman Taylor Tatum’s 69 yards on five carries against Temple. Jovantae Barnes had 61 yards on 18 carries against Tulane.

 

The Sooners’ top game for receiving yards was J.J. Hester’s 86 yards on three catches, including a 60-yarder, at Auburn. Deion Burks had 80 yards on seven catches against Tulane, and Jaquaize Pettaway caught three for 79 against Tennessee. The only other receiver to go over 50 yards in a game this year was tight end Jake Roberts (three for 51 against Houston).

 

 

 

 

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