Game Quotes OKLAHOMA HEAD COACH BOB STOOPS
Opening Comments:
“I knew they had a great defense, they really played well and we knew that coming in (Colorado) was one of the best defenses we faced last year. They just really outplayed us. We got up 24-7 and then they outplayed us in a big time way the rest of the game. I give my compliments to them, they hung in there and made the plays. They executed the last quarter and a half a lot better than we did. They outplayed us and out-coached us in the second half. They fought their way to a heck of a win.”
On the Upset:
“It’s never a shock when you’re the one who is competing. We understood we needed to play well to win and we didn’t. We made some really poor penalties and we didn’t play very smart, we turned the ball over there late. You just can’t have those things happen. The really poor, foolish things we did just killed us. We’re not a very smart team right now.”
On Turnovers:
“It definitely doesn’t help when you do one play and turn it over, stop them, and then do one play and turn it over again. You’re out there the whole time. We’re not very smart at how we conduct ourselves. We made some poor choices and it is disappointing. We emphasize and talk about it all the time but guys need to listen.”
On Colorado’s Running Game:
“They executed and played better than we did. We had a lot of missed tackles and they blocked better than we defended. They made the holes and their running backs found them and ran through some things and made people miss them and made their plays.”
On QB Cody Hawkins:
“I thought he did a great job. What you appreciate about him is that we had some interceptions and some big plays on him and he hung in there and made his plays in the second half to help his team win.”
On SS Daniel Dykes Interception (6:37 4th quarter):
“I thought that the turning point was the one down the middle when (Juaquin Iglesias) was wide open and it just goes off his fingers. With that, we would’ve had a big play and it would’ve put us in scoring position again but then (Colorado) gets it. That, to me, was when all the momentum switched and we never got it back.”
On Mistakes:
“We need to do more offensively and we can’t have the dumb penalties we had on defense and we can’t turn the football over. Anytime you turn the football over like this, away from home, you have a hard time winning.”
On Oklahoma’s Secondary:
“At times they scrambled and found some guys. I thought we also defended a few balls. We got our hands on some and we intercepted some but in the end (Cody Hawkins) made some plays in the second half and we obviously could have covered better in some situations.”
On His Thoughts at Halftime:
“You just have to keep playing. I don’t know if there was a change in intensity or not and there can’t be. We got a good lead at 24-7 and knew there was a lot of football left to play. We didn’t play very well from that point on and we need to do better than that.”