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OU football: Sooners abandoned the run vs. Kansas State and it proved costly

NORMAN — The question was simple.

“Do you wish you’d gotten them the ball more?” one of the many reporters crowded in the small room asked, bringing up Oklahoma’s tailback combination of Kennedy Brooks and Trey Sermon.

“Yeah,” Riley said succinctly. “It’s definitely — you know it got tough there at the end of the game just with the scenario of having to score a bunch and in a short amount of time, so that obviously was a factor. But yeah, we didn’t run the ball the way that we’re accustomed to running it from the tailback position.