This Sooner baseball season feeling like the real thing

Oklahoma getting contributions from up and down lineup, bullpen to knock off top 10 foes and everybody else, too

Oklahoma shortstop Jaxon Willits receives congratulations in the Sooner dugout after hitting his third home run of the season Tuesday against Texas Southern. (OU Athletics Photo/Reghan Kyle).

We’ve sort of been here before with Oklahoma baseball.

Sort of.

But it’s been a long time.

Under Sunny Golloway, the Sooners won their first 10 games of the 2013 season.

Two years earlier, same coach, they won their first 16.

The year before that, same coach, they began 16-1.

And yes, you may wonder, why on earth did Golloway bolt from OU to Auburn following the 2013 season, where he coached two years before running afoul of his administration, not to coach a Division I game since?

They say he was polarizing.

I never knew the particulars.

I digress.

So, back to it, OU’s been off to fantastic unbeaten starts to seasons prior to this one.

Nonetheless, now 7-0 after topping Texas Southern 15-4 in seven innings Tuesday evening at L. Dale Mitchell Park, this one’s beginning to feel different.

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