Jaw-dropping stat reveals just how bad Oklahoma Sooners offense has been in 2024
The Oklahoma Sooners for decades have been defined by talented offenses. They've boasted some of the nation's best across their rich history of national and conference champions. That is, until this season. Oklahoma's offense has been boring, mind-numbingly ineffective, and unproductive this season. They've dragged the team down every game this season, taking away from […]
The Oklahoma Sooners for decades have been defined by talented offenses. They've boasted some of the nation's best across their rich history of national and conference champions.
That is, until this season. Oklahoma's offense has been boring, mind-numbingly ineffective, and unproductive this season. They've dragged the team down every game this season, taking away from a truly elite defensive performance from the Sooners in 2024.
Ultimately, the offense was the undoing of the team against the Texas Longhorns this week. However, there is one stat that proves just how bad the offense has been so far this season.
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The Oklahoma Sooners have not had a single game with over 200 passing yards so far this season. 200. Not one. All season.
It took some digging, but I had to find out how long it has been since the Sooners have had a stretch quite like that.
The last time Oklahoma had a stretch of five games of under 200 yards passing in 2014. Following that season, the Sooners fired offensive coordinator Josh Heupel. That firing led to the hire of Lincoln Riley, who we all know how effective he was as an offensive play caller.
However, the last time the Sooners have had a stretch as poor as this was all the way back in 1997! Having anything compared to the John Blake era is a bad sign, but it being that stark is simply startiling.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more depressing stat to describe Oklahoma's offense. If this isn't a sign that things need to change, I don't know what else is.
Hopefully, some of their receivers will return to the lineup over the season and provide a boost to this struggling offense. The overall game plan and play calling has to improve to give them some support, but this start to the season is as bleak as it can get.
