Oklahoma's remarkable road woes

When football coaches are asked about the difficulty of playing in a certain stadium, they will often say that it's the players in the dark-colored jerseys that make it so difficult, not the stadium itself.

It's a truth about sports: Most games are won by the team with the better players.

Therefore, when a college football team is consistently dominant on its home field, you can expect that it also wins a high percentage of games away from home. But every now and then, there's an exception. One such example is the Oklahoma Sooners.

Since losing their 2005 season opener to the TCU Horned Frogs in Norman, the Sooners have won 37 consecutive games at Memorial Stadium -- the longest active home winning streak in college football. Throughout this span, however, Oklahoma has been anything but automatic when playing away from Norman. Ahead of Saturday's road test against the fifth-ranked Florida State Seminoles, that's a serious concern for Sooner Nation.

To read more about Oklahoma's road issues, and the extent to which QB Landry Jones has struggled away from home, become an ESPN Insider today.

• Recommend0
• Tweet0
• Email
• Subscribe

Brad Edwards

ESPN Insider

• Follow
• Archive

• Analyzes college football and the BCS as part of ESPN's Stats & Information Group
• Analyst for both College GameDay on ESPN Radio and the ESPN College Football app