Offensive miscues, poor play calling doom Oklahoma Sooners in Red River against Texas Longhorns

The 2024 Red River Rivalry was one of the worst in recent memory for Oklahoma Sooners fans.

The offense completely doomed any chance they had in this one, despite the defense's best efforts to keep the game close.

Where to even begin in this one?

Turnovers

The offense kept it relatively close in the first quarter but two costly fumbles in the second quarter completely flipped the game, and the Sooners played from behind the rest of the way.

They turned it over on downs twice due to some questionable decision from quarterback Michael Hawkins, and the offense just couldn't get out of its own way.

With the way the Oklahoma offense is playing right now, they basically have to play completely mistake-free. Unfortunately, they made too many in this one.

Play Calling

Any sort of goodwill Seth Littrell earned against Auburn completely evaporated in this one. The Sooners have had some bad offenses, namely in 2014, but I can't recall any that are as bad as what they put out there against Texas.

They somehow had fewer yards at one point than their 2022 blowout loss when Dillon Gabriel was hurt.

The offense was out of sync, poorly designed, poorly sequenced, and poorly executed. Yes, they were missing their top five wide receivers. That doesn't excuse that that was Oklahoma's gameplan coming off of a bye week.

They had mismatches. JJ Hester beat Malik Muhammad early on their first drive. Oklahoma never went back to that mismatch. They were running the ball well early on, and would then proceed to go three straight passes and go backwards.

They tried the same trick play twice, the speed options into the boundary never worked and they kept going back to that well.

The offensive line, mindlessly picked at by Oklahoma fans all season, played a good game throughout to open holes in the run game and give Hawkins time, but the offense couldn't do enough with it.

It's been six games of the same nonsensical offense and game plans on that side of the ball. Enough is enough from Seth Littrell. Change has to be made, and SOON , or the changes might be made for the staff.