What we have learned in the first two games from the Sooners in 2015, is that the Sooners start slow. In the first half they only could generate 3 points and Tennessee had 17 points. Lucky Tennessee had earlier had a 4th and goal inside the one yard line of the Sooners and chose to kick a field goal instead of a try for a touchdown. Also the second half the Sooner defense really started shutting Tennessee down and kept the score at two TD lead for the Vols. Finally in the 4th Quarter the offense came to life and Sterling Shepherd started to catch key passes. Baker Mayfield threw to Smajie Perine to make it 17-10 score. The OU defense smothered Tennessee and Baker threw to Sterling Shepherd to tie the game at 17-17. Into Overtime we go and Tennessee scored first to make it 24-17. On the sooner drive Baker Mayfield runs it in himself on 4th down off a key block by Perine to tie the game at 24-24. On to double overtime and the Sooners throw a again to Sterling Shepherd right at the out of bounce marker and Sterling somehow stays in bounds for the Touchdown to give the Sooners there first lead of the football game 31-24. Tennessee tries to score but Sooners Zack Sanchez intercepts the ball to give the Sooners a great come from behind victory. Yes we don't have to hear SEC SEC now we can say Victory

It was good to to leave all the problems of last season behind and see the fantastic new players of this season who delivered a victory for the sooners. Baker Mayfield played great at QB saturday night.  He threw for 388 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another to put any questions about who should start as QB behind him.  Joe Mixon I have been waiting to see if Joe Mixon could be as good as the hype around him for two years. Saturday night he did show he was as good as advertised Joe had 115 yards receiving including a 76 yard touchdown. Dede Westbrook the junior college transfer showed his talent by catching a td pass almost one handed.  Joe Meade the very tall receiver who has hands that can catch the ball one handed has his first touchdown as a receiver.

The OU defense played great and the few times that Akon got some yardage the Sooners would make them pay Hatari Bird delivered a bone crushing hit on the Akron receiver in the second half.  After those the receiver is watching for Hatari Bird instead of the football. Now the big test comes next week at Tennessee.