Momentum shifting back and forth in Fiesta Bowl.
Oklahoma got off to a slow start, falling behind 20-6 at halftime to West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl, but it looks like the Bob Stoops lit a fire under his guys in the locker room, as they’ve stopped the Mountaineers on two straight possessions coming out of the locker room, and trimmed the deficit to 20-9 with a Garrett Hartley field goal on their first offensive possession.
The Sooners were down 28-10 in the third quarter against Boise State in last season’s Fiesta Bowl, and came back to take a 35-28 lead before losing 43-42 in overtime, so there’s plenty of time and plenty of fight left in OU.
They’re moving the ball yet again, and are already at the West Virginia 15. Make that the 1-yard line after Chris Brown just broke off a 14-yard run, and now they’re into the end zone as Brown finished off the drive by getting in from one yard out to make it 20-15 with 6:27 to go in the third.
Oklahoma went for the two-point conversion and didn’t get it, but they’ve quickly tightened this one up. The onus is now on the Mountaineers to get something going on offense, and for the defense to start getting to Sam Bradford like they did in the first half, when they sacked him three times.
That blocked field goal at the end of the first half, when WVU could’ve gone up 23-6, was a real momentum swinger, because it put a good capper on a subpar first half on both sides of the ball.
OU just gave back all the momentum they’d gotten by attempting an onside kick that West Virginia recovered, and with the short field, the Mountaineers fully capitalized, as freshman running back Noel Devine went 17 yards for a touchdown, and it’s 27-15 West Virginia with 3:40 to go in the third.
Time for the Sooners to respond.
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