After a night filled with miscues, Oklahoma fell to Kansas State. BPrzybylo has more on the Sooners first loss of the Brent Venables era:
First-year Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables had been preaching about it ever since he took the job in December.
The honeymoon period is over, now what? That will be answered in the weeks going down the road after everything that felt so right in the 3-0 start fell apart against the Wildcats.KSU had very little offensive success in its initial three games and put up 509 total yards of offense. Quarterback Adrian Martinez, who had been incredibly underwhelming, had a career outing with 382 yards of total offense and five total touchdowns.
For a coach who says that everything matters, the message hit home in a negative way for the Sooners on Saturday. He would score two plays later to give the Wildcats a 41-27 advantage and take a bow in the end zone. “He had great pocket awareness,” said linebacker David Ugwoegbu, who led the team with 15 tackles. “He had great vision, and in those situations sometimes you see guys force throws or throw it out of bounds, but he did a great job of keeping the ball on the ground and getting what we were giving him. That was sometimes first downs, that was sometimes 30- or 40-yard runs.”Look, the stats are going to say quarterback Dillon Gabriel had a banner evening.
“Fourth down, being a little more accurate on that. Felt like we were really close on a third down to Marv. A lot of third downs, really close to completing it but a little high here, outside there. Just wanted to put it where I want to put it. At the end of the day, I didn’t.”If there’s one thing OU didn’t learn from last week was about starting fast. OU recovered against the Huskers, but a 14-0 deficit before you could even blink against KSU was a recipe for disaster.