Oklahoma gained valuable experience in fall scrimmage at Arkansas

HOUSTON — Before taking a look ahead at his team’s match with No. 5 Arkansas at 3 p.m. Friday during the Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic, Oklahoma coach Skip Johnson wanted to look back at a fall exhibition against the Razorbacks.

He and his team were floored that Arkansas, playing without some key regulars, drew such a huge crowd for a Friday night scrimmage on Sept. 20 that the Sooners won 4-3 in 14 scheduled innings.

“What other fall game could you walk into and there are 8,000 people there?” Johnson said of a crowd that was announced as 6,378. “It was good for our younger kids to see it. I thought it was a great weekend because the environment was good, we were playing a…