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Oklahoma Football: Sooners stellar in victory over TCU

By Phil Poling

FORT WORTH, TX - OCTOBER 20: Kennedy Brooks #26 of the Oklahoma Sooners carries the ball against the TCU Horned Frogs defense in the first half at Amon G. Carter Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, TX - OCTOBER 20: Kennedy Brooks #26 of the Oklahoma Sooners carries the ball against the TCU Horned Frogs defense in the first half at Amon G. Carter Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
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No. 1: Special teams can win (or lose) a game

TCU’s KaVontae Turpin might be the best kick/punt return man in all of college football, so Oklahoma shouldn’t fret too much. However, I do have one question for Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley and/or their special teams coach: Why are you kicking to Turpin at all?

The Horned Frogs first score of the game came off a 99-yard kick return from Turpin with 9:04 left in the first quarter. Their next score – which didn’t come until 7:55 left in the second – came on a 41-yard pass from quarteback Michael Collins.

So he only scored one touchdown, big deal. Oklahoma won by 21. He set up nearly every Horned Frogs drive with good-to-great field position, too. Against teams with a more competent offense, those points will matter and momentum will swing much further in tight games. If the Sooners goal is to win the Big 12 Championship with hopes of earning a CFP spot, they’ll need to shore up that facet of their game.

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Oklahoma’s talent won out against TCU on Saturday, but the Horned Frogs exposed special teams as something that the Sooners need to work on.

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