I think OU started playing not to lose in the 2nd half. They went into stall ball mode. You got the Heisman trophy winner and reportedly the best Sooner since Billy Sims, yet you're handing the ball off at a critical juncture in the 4th and OT to a guy you need the program to find out who is. In OT with 4th and less than a yd where a TD wins it, you go for the fg after a timeout. They played scared or called the 2nd half and OT that way.
That is questionable.
Sims was a beast and so is Baker Mayfield but the best Sooner player the last 30 years is Adrian Peterson talent wise with maybe Brian Bosworth, Roy Williams and Derrick Strait third, fourth and fifth after Mayfield
Peterson turning his back on Texas still hurts. Even with winning the NC the next year. His hometown newspaper pretty much vilified him the next day for choosing OU over Texas.
The next year OU's car dealership fake job set up was busted and the situation in Montgomery County TX had a lot to do with the fact that the DA was a Texas ex along with the judge.
I think they pushed the charges of child abuse because of him turning his back on Texas.