There may not be any.

But perhaps there is an answer to the conundrum in the beginning.

Already there’s a sort of battle cry: “WTLG.”

Win The Last Game.

It doesn’t seem like much, but it might be a revolution. Here the Sooners are and they’re already talking about Game 13 or 14. Not only that, but they have a name for the issue they’ll be trying to right this and every other season.

Hello, I’m Oklahoma and I can’t win the last game.

Isn’t the first step always acceptance?

It still has to happen. It must still come to pass. Through the drudgery of the season, Stoops could return to old ways and push the old process. First you win this, then this, then think about what comes next. He could do that and take the team with him and WTLG becomes nothing but an impossible-to-pronounce acronym for which nobody remembers what it stands.

In the end and the beginning, it’s all in the approach. Maybe for the first time in a while, OU sees 14 games in front of it. Not 12, then another, and another.

It doesn’t mean the Sooners get there, but they’ll stand a better chance if they do.

Clay Horning

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