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No. 16 Oklahoma (2-0) defeated Houston (0-2) 16-12 on Saturday in Norman.

Here is what OU offensive coordinator Seth Littrell said postgame:

On the offense:

“Inconsistent, obviously. The game shows for itself. In order to be a good offense you have to be a consistent offense, be disciplined, and do the small things to finish off drives. Again, not near good enough on third downs. In those situations, you have to put yourself in good situations and be able to move the chains and put yourself in a position to have success, and unfortunately, we weren’t able to do that tonight. We put our defense in some bad situations which is unfortunate and we have to be much better. “

On what needs to get fixed offensively:

“It's third downs. You have to be able to stay on the field and move the chains in order to have success. You can move the ball, and you can get in a rhythm, but if you’re not consistent enough within a drive to continue to move the chains then it is going to be hard. The other thing is when you take your opportunities down the field, you have to make those opportunities work and you have to get off the field right there with touchdowns. You are not always going to be consistent going on 14 or 15-play drives, you have to be explosive, and we haven’t been near as explosive as we should up to date. I do believe we have a great group of men that work their ass off, I do, but that is not good enough. We have to one, make sure they are being coached the right way, and two, we have to be more consistent.”

On offensive struggles:

“I am going to get back on the film tonight and tomorrow. It is going to be a long night. Throughout the game, I thought there were some good things, but along with everybody else, I thought there were some inconsistent things. Especially when you have situational football you just have to trust your job, trust the way we practice throughout the week, you can’t press, and all of us have to make the plays that are out there to be made. We are not consistently doing that which is frustrating. Listen, it always starts with me. I am never going to throw our guys under the bus, because week in and week out it is my job to put them in the right situations to be successful. So I will take that, but at the same time, when there are plays to be had, you gotta be able to make them, especially against a team that is hungry, and the longer you let them stick around the hungrier they get, the more confident they get, and now you’re in a dog fight. Successful offenses are consistent and disciplined in their jobs, and we weren’t able to do that tonight.”

On the offense’s lack of improvement:

“You are hoping from week one to week two there will be a huge improvement. Listen, I am never going to make excuses or allow anyone to make them for us. We just weren’t consistent enough tonight, and we just have to do a much better job all the way around. I promise you this, I will work hard to correct it, but at the same time, it takes everybody. Everybody has to man up and look at themselves in the mirror. Coach and player alike, we all have a job to do and that job is to hold each other accountable to a high standard, and right now, we have to be much better. I predicted I will see a lot of things that will frustrate me tonight on tape and probably with myself. But at the same time, there will be a lot of positive things on film, it is not going to be big things, it is going to be little things. A lot of little things stack on top of each other, and the more you stack them the harder it is to come out of it, the harder it is to get that momentum back.”

On Jackson Arnold:

I don’t think one player controls or dictates the outcome of a game. I just don’t. I believe it is all of us together. It is never just one guy, it is never one play, it is a combination of a lot of things. Jackson knows that right now, he's the quarterback of this team, and so he's going to take a lot of criticism when we don't have success, just as I do. We've had a number of conversations about that. That's part of the position that we're all in. And so he's a tough kid. He has high standards. He's very meticulous. He works extremely hard, and there's no doubt in my mind that he's very competitive and wants to do great things, as we all do. So at the end of the day, it takes 11 guys, a full staff, a bunch of guys, to step up and make plays and situations. So again, it's on all of us.”

On fans’ criticism of the offense:

“Listen, I understand. I'm from Oklahoma. I've been born and raised here, and I played here, and I get it. There are high standards here, and if there weren't, I wouldn't want to be here. I have high standards of this university, of this program, and so I know exactly what that looks like. So whether they hit the panic button or don't hit the panic button, I can't focus in on that. I can't worry about that. I've done this a long time, and I've been involved in this sport for a long time. I got to focus on doing my job better. I got to focus on what we have to do in order to be more consistent and a better football team.”

OU Daily sports reporter Louis Raser shares his offensive takeaways from OU's 16-12 win against Houston on September 7.

Filmed and edited by Cassidy Martin and Aryanna Smith

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