Oklahoma’s season is at a crossroads as the Sooners head to Athens and things could turn ugly against Georgia
The Oklahoma Sooners travel to Athens for a matchup that looked promising before the season, but everything points to a Georgia blowout. The only question left is the margin of victory.
Georgia Bulldogs fans should be licking their chops going into Saturday’s game.
The Oklahoma Sooners are traveling to Athens, and what once looked like a compelling early-season SEC matchup now feels like a foregone conclusion. The question isn’t whether Georgia wins. It’s should be how many points the Bulldogs win by.
Going into the season, this game had the makings of a genuinely exciting showdown. A dual-threat quarterback in John Mateer going up against a loaded Georgia defense sounded like a chess match worth circling on the calendar.
But that version of this game never materialized. Oklahoma has not proven it can hang with the upper tier of the SEC, and Georgia has looked every bit like a team capable of running away with a game like this before halftime.
Oklahoma’s only path to staying competitive
Now, I want to be clear. If I have to live in la-la land with rainbows and butterflies, there is one scenario where Oklahoma stays in this game into the third quarter. It requires the Georgia offense to validate every single person who has disregarded Mike Bobo and believes the offensive production just isn’t good enough.
It requires Georgia sputtering against what is, to be fair, an elite-level Oklahoma defense. And then you get maybe one or maybe two plays from Isaiah Sategna III and all of a sudden we would have ourselves a ball game. That’s it. That’s the only path.
Outside of that, everything points to Georgia winning by multiple scores. The talent gap is real, the home-field advantage is enormous, and Oklahoma simply hasn’t shown enough on either side of the ball to make anyone believe they can pull off a road upset of this magnitude.
The panic button is coming for Oklahoma
I wish this game was a hell of a lot more competitive going into it, but I just don’t see Oklahoma having any chance to win. And frankly, I think there’s a good chance the panic button gets hit about Oklahoma by the end of this weekend.
If Georgia runs them out of Sanford Stadium the way the matchup suggests, the Sooners are going to be staring down a season that’s already in trouble before October even starts. I believe Georgia wins this one comfortably, and it probably won’t be close after the first quarter.
