Tim Heitman/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
ATLANTA — The right hand of Lee Morris’s father always seems to shimmer with a golden tribute to football greatness: a ring celebrating Oklahoma’s 1985 national championship.
“He wears that everywhere, and obviously for good reasons,” said Morris, a wide receiver for Oklahoma whose father played the same position at the school more than three decades ago. “I would love to have one of my own so we can, you know, have a nice little photo together.”
But bowl game glory has lately been sparse around the campus in Norman, Okla.