Patterson walked back a lot of his comments from his Oklahoma post-game press conference during his Tuesday chat with the media.
“They’re going to make mistakes. So are we,” Patterson said of the crew that worked Saturday’s game during his Tuesday news conference. “In my 19 years here, I think I can count six times that I’ve said things that, usually by the next day, I regret. That’s a good officiating crew. This game goes really fast. It’s hard to be an officiating crew any more.
“So, from a football coach, that’s probably as close to an apology as you’ll ever get.