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SoonerScoop Sights & Sounds: OU earns shutout victory

Bob Przybyloby: Bob Przybylo10/06/25BPrzybylo
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OU didn’t play with its food Saturday afternoon. A very mature, clean effort in the 44-0 victory against visiting Kent State.

Quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. accounted for four touchdowns. The OU defense forced a couple of turnovers and scored a touchdown.

That’s what you wanted from a game like that. Before we officially head to Texas, some Sights & Sounds from SoonerScoop video editor Eddie Radosevich.

Head coach Brent Venables

“No. 1 is just maturity. To, again, show up, play with passion, energy, intensity, detail, physicality, be excited to play, celebrate the success. This is still a game of doing, this is a game of performance, this is a game of if we are who we say we are, then it’s about standards. We play and compete and show up a certain way to the stadium. You don’t pay to an opponent, a scoreboard, a jersey, a time, a temperature, you show up and play and compete to a performance. That’s all anybody here wants to see, that’s all any of us coaches want to see. You can’t cheat this game.

“There’s one way, the right way, the hard way, there aren’t no shortcuts to how you win. Again, winning, we had a shutout and there was nothing easy about it. There were some moments where it was easier, but there’s nothing easy about winning and being successful and when our guys grab onto that, I think that you can have a performance like you had today. It has nothing to do with the opponents, just the cleanliness, the readiness, the detail and again, we’re going to get a lot more pushback and we’re going to have a lot of challenges. We know that, but it’s all relative to the team that you’re lining up against and again, the things that I just talked about, the investment that it takes to win and be successful week in and week out.”

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