Oklahoma football April Fools: Five worst championship losses in Big 12 era
By Chip Rouse
#3 Dec. 28, 2019 — LSU 63, Oklahoma 28
There’s little need to go into much detail on this game. It’s probably still painfully fresh in the minds of Sooner fans. LSU buried the Sooners under an avalanche of air strikes.
Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Joe Burrow completed 29 of 39 passes to nine different receivers for a total of 493 yards and seven touchdowns. Fourteen of his 29 completions were to one receiver, Justin Jefferson, who collected 227 receiving yards and averaged 16.2 yards per catch.
This game was essentially over six minutes into the second quarter, when LSU went up 35-7 after Jefferson caught his fourth TD pass.
The LSU defense smothered Oklahoma’s high-powered offense, ranked No. 2 nationally coming into the game, to 322 total yards, more than 200 yards under the Sooners’ season average. Meanwhile Burrow and the LSU offense roiled up 692 yards on the undermanned Sooner defense depleted by suspensions and injuries.
Although there is little more humbling or disheartening in college football than to lose by as many as five touchdowns, Oklahoma was a heavy, double-digit underdog in this game, despite being ranked the No. 4 team in the country in the CFP standings.
No one — and I mean no one — was giving the Sooners much of a chance to upset the country’s No. 1 team. And the Crimson and Cream certainly lived up to that expectation.