Oklahoma Football: Final unit, player grades vs Houston

The Oklahoma football season is off to a rocky start, and here are our grades for the team’s first performance against the Houston Cougars.

If you didn’t believe the Houston Cougars were the real thing after beating Florida State in the 2015 Peach Bowl, you’d best believe it now.

The Big 12 wannabe team from Houston did everything right against an Oklahoma football team which once again failed to live up to some preseason hype. There were few bright spots in the game for Sooner fans, and most of the occurred in the first quarter.

Outside of a few nice passes, quarterback Baker Mayfield looked less than the immortal one seen last season, and the Sooner defense was obviously missing Eric Striker, Charles Tapper, Dominique Alexander and Zack Sanchez.

Although this was a non-conference loss, it’s going to be an uphill climb for the Sooners to get back into the playoff hunt with a very tough Big 12 schedule staring them in the face, as well as a date with No. 6 Ohio State in two weeks.

Here are the final grades for the Sooners on both sides of the ball, as well as some individual grades for key players.

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