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Oklahoma football: Grading the Sooners at mid-term of 2020 season

By Chip Rouse

Oct 24, 2020; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Seth McGowan (1) jumps over TCU Horned Frogs safety Nook Bradford (28) during the second half at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 24, 2020; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Seth McGowan (1) jumps over TCU Horned Frogs safety Nook Bradford (28) during the second half at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /
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Oct 10, 2020; Dallas, Texas, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Marcus Major (24) celebrates the victory over the Texas Longhorns by running across the field with the OU flag after the Red River Showdown at Cotton Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 10, 2020; Dallas, Texas, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Marcus Major (24) celebrates the victory over the Texas Longhorns by running across the field with the OU flag after the Red River Showdown at Cotton Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports /

This week, as Oklahoma football prepares for a fourth straight game away from Norman, marks the midpoint of the shortened 2020 season.

The Sooners are an uncharacteristic 2-2 through the first four games of the Big 12 season, but only one of those games was played at home.

The second half of the COVID-altered 2020 season for Oklahoma begins Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas, where the Sooners will take on Texas Tech, Sooner head coach Lincoln Riley’s alma mater.

The Sooners earned their second consecutive conference win beating TCU last weekend, and in doing so played their most complete and complementary game of the season against Big 12 competition in terms of key contributions from all three phases of the game.

Oklahoma has looked much better in its wins over Texas and TCU than it did in back-to-back losses to Kansas State and Iowa State.

Riley said on the Big 12 weekly teleconference on Monday that he likes the progress the Sooners have made overall the past two games and says that if they are able to continue to grow and get better every week, “we’re going to be tough to handle as this thing goes on.”

We’ve seen a combination of good, bad an ugly out of Oklahoma football through the first half of the 2020 season, but we’ve also seen steady improvement from week to week, which is the trajectory you would like to after starting out with two losses in the first three games.

This is a good point in time to evaluate where the Sooners are in terms of mid-term grades:

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