Hope this isn’t true?… TERRIBLE NEWS: Few Minutes ago Oklahoma Sooners Head Coach Matt LaFleur Decide to……read more 
South Carolina, a traditional SEC doormat and a team that nearly upset both LSU and Alabama this year but came town for the first time ever with a 1-3 conference record, shocked the Sooners and a whited-out crowd of 83,331 on an otherwise picturesque Saturday afternoon at Owen Field.
The final score was 35-9, and USC led 32-3 at halftime — OU’s biggest halftime deficit at home since 1998.
This was supposed to be the easiest SEC game on a demanding OU schedule.
Instead, it was a blaring alarm for the Sooners’ proud football program: Welcome to the SEC.
Freshman quarterback Michael Hawkins’ first snap was intercepted, and the Gamecocks quickly made it 7-0. Hawkins then fumbled, and USC made it 14-0 on a 36-yard fumble return. Hawkins then threw another interception — to the same South Carolina safety — who ran it back 65 yards for a touchdown.
In less than five minutes, and in nine total offensive snaps, the Sooners were down 21-0.
That brought on Jackson Arnold, the erstwhile starter who came in and didn’t fare much better — at least until the second half, when he threw a 54-yard touchdown pass to Brenen Thompson at the end of a 90-yard drive.
