Two plays.
That’s what it was.
Two plays that saved the season.
Two plays that may have saved Brent Venables’ and others’ jobs.
Two plays that put everything back on the table, like finding a way to beat Alabama when the Sooners next take the field. And if they can do that a likely 10-win regular season and trip to the playoff.
Two plays, really, that turned a bad season into a good one, perhaps a great one.
Saturday night in Knoxville, in front of a hundred-grand-plus inside Neyland Stadium, Oklahoma impossibly knocked off Tennessee 33-27 and none of it happens without two plays, one in the first half from the defense and one in the second from the offense, yet mostly just one guy.
It might have been five plays, but Tate Sandell’s trio of 50-yard field goals, kicked in pants no longer than the shorts John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg wore in the ’70s, feel like givens at this point.
So, two plays.
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