Tennessee vs. Oklahoma Recap: Loads of Struggles in Key Game

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00:00You know, when we talked about this earlier in last week, the line did seem funny to me.

00:09And that's why to me that something was strange with that game.

00:12And now I understand why, you know, Tennessee is really good, especially good on defense.

00:17And Oklahoma very clearly, Bill, was overrated going into that game.

00:20I mean, good job by them jumping into the top 25.

00:23Good job by them winning the first couple of games of the season.

00:26But I do not think we're going to see the Sooners sniff the playoff this year.

00:30Right.

00:31I'm trying to figure out who this game was more about.

00:33To your point, Tennessee, obviously, they can win with defense.

00:36That was one of the bigger stories for me, is Nico Iamaliava is a young quarterback.

00:41The running game wasn't working.

00:43So they protected him with an aggressive defense that really didn't allow Oklahoma to do anything

00:48until late in the game when Michael Hawkins came in the game.

00:51And that's the other end of this, is how is Oklahoma going to manage benching a five-star

00:57quarterback?

00:58If you look at the five five-star quarterbacks from the class of 2023, Nico, Jackson, Arnold,

01:04Arch Manning's a backup.

01:05You have two other kids that transfer.

01:07I mean, Craig, I would assume that Jackson Arnold, unless they give him a reset and another

01:11chance at the end of the year, he's going to think about transferring.

01:14I don't know where the Sooners go from here.

01:16Their schedule's really tough, almost as tough as Florida's.

01:19So I'm with you.

01:20I think they're probably a team that pencil out of the playoff.