Boink, doing, boing-boing-boing and the ball just kept on rolling. The two teams kept hitting the flippers and earning the bonus -- to the tune of more than 900 yards in offense.
Until Cincinnati went tilt.
Given the chance to win, the Bearcats botched two fourth-quarter opportunities and saw the Sooners take a 31-29 win back to Norman.
Close as it is, the two-point margin does not do justice to the chances Cincinnati had to win the game, nor does it do justice to the Sooners' run defense, which pretty much seems nonexistent as Cincinnati's Isaiah Pead averaged eight yards per trip on his 21 carries.
The Sooners could have justified being ranked eighth in the nation by completing a fast start that saw them lead 14-3 in the first quarter. Oklahoma plays fast, lines up fast and wants the game fast. But after starting fast, Oklahoma had to hang on to win -- it did thanks to the unintentional teeth-gnashing generosity of Cincinnati, which turned the ball over too often at key times. Put it this way: With 58 seconds left, Cincinnati could have been trying a two-point conversion to tie had it simply made its first extra-point attempt.
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