Yes, osu's freshman backup, and future nfl qb, making his 2nd career start.
And OU's freshman backup, future baseball player, in his 3rd career start.
An excuse implies the result is excusable. This is just what happened. It's no excuse, it was just stupid of Stoops to punt the ball again. It took a monumental error on Stoops' part to beat OU's backup baseball qb. He really should have put Blake Bell in there.