Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Sunday that he expected receiver Manuel Johnson to be released from OU Medical Center either Sunday night or today.
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Johnson was knocked unconscious by a helmet-to-helmet hit from a Texas Tech defender early in the fourth quarter Saturday night. After lying on the field for several minutes, he was strapped down and carted off the field.
Stoops said after the game that Johnson had experienced numbness in parts of his body, but all feeling had returned.
"Everything checked out fine (on Sunday)," Stoops said of Johnson's medical examinations. A timetable for Johnson's return to the field this season is still not known, Stoops said.
• Unhappy in Waco: After coming out on the wrong end of a 66-24 rout — their second blowout loss in two weeks — at Oklahoma State Saturday, the Baylor Bears seem to be dealing with some in-house frustrations.
"It's sad to say, but there were some guys out there (Saturday)... if you don't want it, man, it's going to show," senior cornerback C.J. Wilson said. "And today it pretty much showed. I really can't explain it, but if you really wanted it, you wouldn't lose. Not like that."
The frustration reached all the way to head coach Guy Morriss.
"I thought they got the (Texas) Tech loss out of their system," Morris said. "But we just come out here and don't execute and have a total meltdown."
• Senior moment: OU senior Calvin Thibodeaux celebrated his final game at Owen Field with his first career interception Saturday night. It came in the first quarter as Thibodeaux, a defensive end, pulled out wide into pass coverage. He was able to tip the ball into the air, then corral it as he fell to the ground.
"I beat the ball up," Thibodeaux said with a laugh. "I was just trying to hold on to it and not let it hit the ground."
Thibodeaux's last interception came in high school — ironically, on Senior Night at Houston Westbury High School.
"I thought about it (before the game)," he said of the possibility of getting another Senior Night interception. "I said, ‘Maybe, but no.'
"It was crazy."
• Mike's win: Stoops admits he often keeps an eye on the scoreboard to see how his younger brother and Arizona's head coach, Mike Stoops, is doing in his game.
On Saturday afternoon, Arizona pulled out a 24-21 upset of ranked Cal.
"I heard that just before we took the field," Stoops said. "I've always got a few guys who know I want to know and they told me."
So do Stoops' scoreboard watchers tell him if Arizona loses?
"That's when I know he didn't win," Stoops said. "Nobody tells me anything."
By Scott Wright
