Red-zone disaster on defense
Oklahoma ranked among the top 15 teams in the country a year ago in red zone offense, scoring 67 times in 73 trips inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. Sadly, the Sooners’ opponents did even better than that when they reached the red zone against the OU defense. The Sooners yielded points 94 percent of the time (45 out of 48 trips) when an opponent had the ball within 20 yards of the Oklahoma end zone. Thirty-two of those 48 red-zone defensive stands resulted in touchdowns and 13 in field goals.
The Sooners ranked a highly undesirable 128th out of 130 times in red-zone defense in 2019, and they weren’t much better the year before, allowing the opposition to score in 93 percent of their red-zone possessions.
This is not a sustainable performance if Oklahoma wants to remain a national championship contender let alone play for and win another national title