No. 8 OU (10-2, 6-2 SEC) capped off its common season with a 17-13 win over LSU (7-5, 3-5 SEC), sealed by a game-winning touchdown within the ultimate minutes by redshirt junior receiver Isaiah Satenga III.
The Sooners have been trailing by three with 5:04 left within the fourth quarter when the Sooners’ main receiver Sategna bought behind the protection, scoring a 58-yard touchdown to place OU forward by 4 within the ultimate minutes. He completed the day with 9 catches for 121 yards in addition to the game-winning touchdown.
Postgame, OU head coach Brent Venables praised Sategna’s spectacular efficiency.
“(Sategna) was pretty special,” mentioned Venables. “He’s somebody on the stat sheet that looks pretty dang good.”
Sategna has constantly stuffed the stat sheet all season, proving to be redshirt junior quarterback John Mateer’s primary goal. This season, he leads the Sooners in all three main receiving classes with 56 catches for 827 yards and 6 touchdowns in 12 video games.
The redshirt junior spent his first three seasons at Arkansas, the place he struggled to discover a constant position within the offense, ending with a career-high 491 yards in 2024 earlier than transferring to OU in search of a bigger alternative. The transfer got here after the Sooners capped off a disappointing 6-7 marketing campaign. With uncertainty surrounding the ‘blue-blood’ standing of OU football, Sategna admitted he relished the chance to return to a faculty the place expectations wanted to be raised.
“My whole college career I’ve been doubted, so I wanted to go somewhere that’s been doubted…(OU) is the place I wanted to be at,” mentioned Sategna postgame.
With the win, the Sooners now have a 99.9% probability to make the College Football Playoffs, according to ESPN’s predictor, and can wait till Tuesday to see their positioning forward of the ultimate rankings reveal on Dec. 7.
This story was edited by Laurie Jones.