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Sports November 28, 2020 OSU football Sooners ranked No. 11 in initial College Football rankings equipment manager injured in alleged Joe Buettner, The Norman knock them out of contention 3. Clemson, 7-1 Transcript would also be helpful to the 4. Ohio State, 4-0 Sooners’ cause. 5. Texas A&M, 5-1 Perhaps it was hard to imag- OU also needs to pad its re- 6. Florida, 6-1 ine Oklahoma in the College sume with another statement assault by OU fans Football Playoff race following win. Its best shot would be 7. Cincinnati, 8-0 a1-2 start. meeting Iowa State, current- 8. Northwestern, 5-0 Tuesday's first rankings re- ly ranked No. 13, in the Big 9. Georgia, 5-2 veal, however, showed the 12 championship game and 10. Miami, 7-1 Scott Wright, The Oklahoman on him.” “The OU Athletics Depart- Sooners still have a path to a avenging its Oct. 3 loss to the 11. Oklahoma, 6-2 When Oklahoma State ment is aware of the interac- fourth consecutive playoff ap- Cyclones. 12. Indiana, 4-1 NORMAN — An Oklahoma kicked a field goal in the sec- tion during Saturday night's pearance. ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit had 13. Iowa State, 6-2 State football equipment man- ond quarter on Saturday, the game between some fans and The Sooners (6-2) checked this to say about the Sooners 14. BYU, 9-0 ager suffereda broken rib after equipment manager was posi- an Oklahoma State team staff in at No. 11 in the committee's during the network's playoff initial rankings of the season. rankings reveal: "Since the Tex- 15. Oregon, 3-0 he was allegedly assaulted by tioned in the crowd to retrieve member,” the OU statement It's not as good as when as game, they're building mo- 16. Wisconsin, 2-1 OU fans while he tried to re- the Cowboys’ ball. It is an OU said. “The matter was immedi- OU started at No. 9 last sea- mentum like crazy. And right 17. Texas, 5-2 trieve an OSU football in the tradition to catch the game ately turned over to the OU Po- son, No. 7 in 2018 or No. 5 in now, you look at OU and you're 18. Southern Cal, 3-0 second quarter of the Bedlam balls of the opponent when lice Department and is under 2017. But this Sooner team is like, OU could be on a field 19. North Carolina, 6-2 game on Saturday at Owen they come into the crowd and investigation with the athletics in a better spot than the 2015 with about anybody right now 20. Coastal Carolina, 8-0 Field. throw them up the stands and department's full cooperation. Sooners, who climbed from and be OK and compete. 21. Marshall, 7-0 OU officials released a state- out of the stadium, No matter the outcome of the No. 15 to No. 4 to make their "I think OU is better right ment on Monday saying that Video from Fox 25 television investigation, physical contact first playoff trip. now at this point in the season 22. Auburn, 5-2 the incident has been turned in Oklahoma City shows a fan by any fan with an employee Similar to each of the times when they had Baker [May- 23. Oklahoma State, 5-2 over to the OU police depart- throwing the ball, where it was of any team is unacceptable. it's made the event, OU will field], or Kyle Murray or last 24. Iowa, 3-2 need help and to do alittle con- year with Jalen Hurts, because ment for investigation. apparently caught by the OSU ‘The department condemns the vincing. they're a more complete team." 25. Tulsa, 5-1 A family member posted equipment manager. A scrum behavior of the involved fans, It has to hope one confer- Keep up with the Sooners on social media that the stu- ensued, lasting for more than and once the individuals are ence — looking at you, SEC 2020 College Football Play- on social media by following dent assistant was “attacked 30 seconds before the OSU identified, they will be banned — to not put two teams into off Rankings OU Gameday by Norman Tran- by 5 adult men OU fans” who staff member was assisted out from attending any future OU the playoffs. Notre Dame beat- 1. Alabama, 7-0 script on Facebook and @tran- “punched him and threw beer of the pile with the ball. Athletics events.” ing Clemson a second time to 2. Notre Dame, 8-0 script on Twitter. OSU basketball: Mike Boynton ‘frustrated’ with NCAA sanctions on Alabama Jacob Unruh, The Oklahoman three seasons. ‘The punishment does not.” “I'm going to be honest — frustrated,” Boynton said about his Auburn elected to self-impose a one-year postseason ban over STILLWATER — Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton is ad- reaction to Alabama’s punishment. “The situations seem very the weekend for its involvement in the case. Former associate mittingly not fond of the NCAA's punishment dealt to Alabama close in circumstance, very different in punishment and so frus- head coach Chuck Person also accepted bribes to steer players to last week. trating would be the word I'd use. certain financial advisers. ‘The Crimson Tide receiveda three-year probation and a $5,000 “But at the end of the day, we have our process to go through. OSU cooperated with the NCAA in the initial investigation, fine plus 1% of their operating budget after a former associate Alabama and Auburn has theirs. Only thing you ask for is kinda lobbying for a Level 2 punishment, which would not include a athletic director accepted bribes to facilitate a meeting between a like a coach in the game with officiating. You want consistency. If postseason ban. Instead, it received a Level 1 punishment. player's father and a financial adviser. it’s a touch foul on the other end, then it should be a touch foul ‘The Cowboys have appealed. It’s part of the FBI investigation that ruled former OSU asso- over here. If it’s not a foul, then it’s not a foul both ways. That’s ‘That process is still ongoing. Boynton said it’s unclear if the ciate coach Lamont Evans accepted bribes to influence student- kind of where the frustration comes from. university's legal team will argue that the Alabama punishment athletes from 2016-17. “It just seems like there's a wide gap between the punishment should lessen the Cowboys’ punishment. Except OSU was dealt a one-year postseason ban along with from what I can read — I don’t know all the details of how it got “{ hope it’s something that can be acknowledged as, ‘Hey, we three years of probation and the loss of three scholarships over adjudicated — but the crime per say seems pretty comparable. may have something to reconsider here,” Boynton said.