OU football: Lincoln Riley believes Sooners have potential for more physical play

NORMAN — OU coach Lincoln Riley has seen flashes of dominating physical play three games into the season.

There just hasn’t been enough.

“There’s no doubt the potential’s there,” Riley said. “But we, like everything right now, we’ve got to do it more consistently. I think you see flashes of us being a really physical football team and then there’s flashes where we have not been – our physicality has not been up to our standards. I put that in the category of a lot of things with our football team right now.”

Often, the most physical team in the annual Red River Showdown wins the game. OU is looking to regain that edge at 11 a.m. Saturday against No. 22-ranked Texas.

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 Only then, the Sooners can begin to turn things their way this season.

“The sooner we turn that potential into more consistent performances then the sooner we’re going to play the way we want to play,” Riley said.