What’s wrong with OU football offense? Seth Littrell takes ownership for woes vs. Houston

NORMAN — Seth Littrell would be the first to tell you OU’s offense didn’t play well on Saturday night.

The Sooners’ offensive coordinator, fresh off his team’s frustrating performance, stood at the lectern postgame and answered every question, taking ownership of the program’s worst offensive performance since their 2022 blowout loss in the Red River Rivalry.

While he largely strayed from pointing to specific fixes that needed to be made, he said it’d be a long night in the film room trying to identify them himself.

“It always starts with me,” Littrell said following the Sooners’ narrow 16-12 victory over Houston. “I’m never going to throw our guys under the bus, because, I’m the one week in week out, it’s my job to put them in the right situations to be successful.

“I’ll take that.”

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Oklahoma offensive coordinator Seth Littrell walks on the field before a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family Ð Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

OU’s offense didn’t play well enough to win, scoring its lowest point total against an unranked nonconference opponent since a 17-10 loss to TCU in 2005. Head coach Brent Venables said as much when he told SEC Network postgame that his team “deserved to lose.”

Even after the Sooners blew out Temple 51-3 in Week 1, questions whirled about the offense’s “vanilla” play and lack of big plays.

One thing Littrell did point to afterward was OU’s inability to move the chains on third down.The Sooners were 1 for 12 on third down against the Owls and weren’t much better against the Cougars, converting 4 of their 14 tries.

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Publish date : 2024-09-08 10:45:27

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