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OU football: Contact tracing leads coaches — and players — through a rollercoaster

NORMAN — OU wasn’t the only team that went down to the wire on whether it would play its season opener.

Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said his team was the same way before its season-opener against Arkansas State two weeks ago.

“Honestly we were waiting for the test Friday at 5 o’clock to push us ahead from one of the threshold positions — whether that’s O-line, D-line or quarterback — that we could play,” Klieman said Monday ahead of the Sooners game against the Wildcats at 11 a.m. Saturday.

While OU has not released football-specific COVID-19 testing data in recent weeks, the athletic department did release its overall testing numbers for the first time since August.