The Greatest 5 ½ Minutes Of Football

At the nine and a half minute mark of the first quarter the Oklahoma/Nebraska football game was over. There was still more that 3 ½ quarters left to play but with Oklahoma up 28-0 the outcome of the game had been decided. Sooner fans were treated to 5 ½ minutes of complete dominance over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Oklahoma finally ran a long kickoff back on someone else instead of the other way around. Even with the 15 yard penalty Oklahoma was still setting up shop near mid-field. It's hard enough to keep Oklahoma's offense out of the end zone but when given a short field you almost have no chance.

Oklahoma’s defense started out showing run blitz which caused Joe Ganz to check into the screen pass. However, Dominique Franks wasn’t coming on the blitz he was waiting to get a jump on the short pass.

A kickoff out of bounds is unacceptable at any point of a football game but when you’ve given up the amount of return yards that Oklahoma has maybe it isn’t the worst thing that can happen.

At this point Nebraska has three offensive plays that have resulted in 10 total yards and two turnovers.

Sam Bradford had a defender in his face and threw a perfect pass to Chaney under pressure. Quentin Chaney has finally turned into the consistent possession receiver we’ve been expecting to see the last four years.

Can we finally give the Oklahoma defense some credit? They forced three turnovers on Nebraska’s first five offensive plays. I hear a lot of criticism about shortcomings but not much praise for a performance like this one.

Now we’ve reached ridiculous. I can’t remember ever seeing anything like this.