College basketball fans react in disbelief as popcorn machine fire stops game

The Oklahoma Sooners needed to light a fire to turn around their season after recently ending a nine-game SEC losing streak, and although that was metaphorical, it was literal on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners' home game against Georgia on Saturday was delayed in the early minutes after a popcorn machine caught fire and went up in flames. The flame proved that even in the old days of Lloyd Noble Center, the sprinkler system still works perfectly. Even after the fire was out, though, the concourse, and eventually the entire arena, was filled with smoke so everyone had to wait for the air to clear before play could resume about five minutes later.

Fire erupts at Lloyd Noble Center to delay Oklahoma-Georgia

"I'm just glad that the sprinkler system worked, just for the safety of everybody, but also that we were able to resume play," OU head coach Porter Moser said during his postgame press conference. "I literally, I looked up, and I'm like, 'This is just.' I mean, add it to the list in terms of stuff -- I mean, I've never seen anything like it. It was a huge flame from our vantage point."

ESPN covered the entire situation as it played out, but those in attendance also got their own footage of the chaos.

Like that popcorn machine, the Sooners also caught fire and beat Georgia 94-78 in what was probably their best performance of the season. OU has won back-to-back games for the first in SEC play this season after upsetting then-No. 15 Vanderbilt 92-91 a week before in Nashville. The consecutive wins has the Sooners above .500 overall at 13-12 and has risen from the bottom of SEC standings.

Although it was a massive win for the Sooners, it's already too little, too late to salvage this season that's already went up in smokes. The victory was also engulfed in flames by the viral incident that had all of college basketball poking fun at the situation and the Sooners.

Even OU legend Trae Young couldn't believe what happened and is anticipating that new arena that was recently approved just as much as the rest of Sooner Nation.