<figure><img src="//cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r960-e31c370cfdcdbe08944dfc63bffba4c3.jpg" alt="Photo - OU helmets sit on the field as players warm up before a college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and South Dakota Coyotes at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]
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"><figcaption>OU helmets sit on the field as players warm up before a college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and South Dakota Coyotes at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]
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Jeff Patterson
Jeff Patterson is the sports editor of The Oklahoman. A native of Lexington, Kentucky, he allegedly once told his father on a childhood trip passing through Oklahoma that he would one day live there. He doesn't recall this, but he fulfilled that...
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![OU helmets sit on the field as players warm up before a college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and South Dakota Coyotes at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]](http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/large960_blur-e31c370cfdcdbe08944dfc63bffba4c3.jpg)