NORMAN, Okla. - Halftime hit and the scoreboard said 28-10, South Carolina. That was all it took for some of the loudest voices in Oklahoma football history to stop being polite about it.
Mark Clayton did not need a long paragraph. The former Sooner great went straight to the point on X: "Can we please try someone else at QB?"
That is not a random fan account screaming into the void. That is a former Oklahoma receiver watching the same stalled offense the rest of the building was watching and deciding the quarterback conversation around John Mateer was no longer off-limits. When a name like Clayton says it out loud at halftime, it tells you how far the temperature had already climbed inside the stadium and across Sooner Nation.
Dede Westbrook was somehow even more Dede about the whole thing. On Facebook, the former OU star and Heisman finalist announced he was basically clocking out of the emotional damage for the night.
"Aye man, I'm about to go trick or treating!!! I'm sick of this (expletive)! Let me know who passing out whole snicker bars and Reese's peanut butter cups! Yall let me know how we end up doing when yall see me out! I can't let this define my evening."
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