Missouri head coach Eliah Drinkwitz takes immediate jab at Oklahoma Sooners after win
The Oklahoma Sooners choked away a win against the Missouri Tigers, a team that played without their starting quarterback and is actually not as good as what their record may say. They are 7-2, but almost every game they have played has been one that they should have lost, including this one. They had the […]
The Oklahoma Sooners choked away a win against the Missouri Tigers, a team that played without their starting quarterback and is actually not as good as what their record may say. They are 7-2, but almost every game they have played has been one that they should have lost, including this one.
They had the lead after a miraculous play by Billy Bowman that saw him score a fumble. But gave up a touchdown to the Tigers, and then a fumble by Jackson Arnold recovered for a touchdown was pretty much all she wrote. It's easily one of the more heartbreaking games we have witnessed in some time for these Sooners.
And, what's the worst feeling is that this feels as if the Sooners may finally not make a bowl game. Even Brent Venables' first season, one that was pretty bad, was a season where he went to a bowl game against Florida State.
This year, they have two games left with one win left to get if they want to make a bowl. And, those two games left just so happen to be against the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers, two of the best teams in the country.
A bowl game is not looking likely.
To make matters better, or worse, the Missouri head coach, Eliah Drinkwitz is already taking a jab at the Sooners after the game.
"This will be real disappointing to Bob Stoops, but OU doesn’t always whoop Missouri’s ass anymore," Drinkwitz said as the opening statement to his postgame press conference.
The Sooners used to beat Missouri all the time, back when this was a "rivalry." The Sooners own the Tigers in their all-time matchup 67–25–5 and have won 20 of the last 23 matchups between the two. So, while the Sooners' fan base may take this the wrong way, he's not really wrong. The Sooners always used to beat down the Tigers, that's why it's not really considered a rivalry.
But, the Sooners now have to respond by not allowing this to become a yearly thing or something that happens often. Missouri is not the football program now or historically that Oklahoma is. But, this loss to Missouri stings, despite some of the good things that happened.
