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NORMAN, Okla. — He did not watch the national championship game. Well, that’s not exactly right. Late in the first half, he flipped it on.
“I watched one snap,” Lincoln Riley says, “and I got nauseous — and I turned it off.”
Considering how close Oklahoma came to playing that January night — and perhaps to winning the College Football Playoff, too — don’t mistake, though, a coach’s queasiness for more than momentary disgust.