“I don’t tell anybody what we’re doing until our first play and sometimes I don’t even know until I sit down,” Wilson said. “We’ve got this script, but what if it isn’t (what you thought). We came out in the first game and all of a sudden the bubble pass was there … Do it again, do it again, do it again.

“I think I have enough confidence in our skill-position players and our line and the way our quarterback is playing that I don’t want to go in there feeling like my hands are tied behind my back.”

And, for the Sooners, freedom has been good.