We’re just days from Tennessee football and Oklahoma meeting on the gridiron for the Vols’ return to Neyland Stadium. Ahead of the real-life meeting, I fired up the College Football 26 video game to simulate the matchup in Lexington.
The result was a down-to-the-wire win for Tennessee, with a heroic play from Star Thomas. We’ll see how accurate the video game version is when UT meets the Sooners on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET in Knoxville. The game will air on ABC.
Here are the full results and stats of the simulation:
I was asked about the settings I use for the simulations. My game is on Heisman difficulty with 15-minute quarters, no accelerated clock and even teams ‘off’. I put the correct team at home and match the time of the game up to the best choice possible. I don’t control either team, bench players we know will be inactive and then let it play out once and the results are as follows.
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Score:
Tennessee – 34
Oklahoma – 27
Scoring Summary:
1Q:
(Tenn) Star Thomas 17-yd run, 12:40, 7-0
(Tenn) Peyton Lewis 1-yd run, 5:08, 14-0
2Q:
(Tenn) Max Gilbert 45-yd FG, 14:52, 17-0
(Tenn) Max Gilbert 46-yd FG, 8:03, 20-0
(Okla) Tate Sandell 41-yd FG, 4:33, 20-3
(Okla) Deion Burks 12-yd pass from John Mateer, 0:04, 20-10
3Q:
(Okla) Jovantae Barnes 1-yd run, 6:54, 20-17
4Q:
(Tenn) DeSean Bishop 1-yd run, 11:02, 27-17
(Okla) Deion Burks 5-yd pass from John Mateer, 6:57, 27-24
(Okla) Tate Sandell 30-yd FG, 1:51, 27-27
(Tenn) Star Thomas 45-yd run, 0:22, 34-27
Team Stats:
Total offense…
Tenn – 388
Okla – 427
Rushes | Yards | TD…
Tenn – 41 | 179 | 4
Okla – 37 | 99 | 1
Comp | Att | TD…
Tenn – 23 | 29 | 0
Okla – 34 | 53 | 2
Passing Yards…
Tenn – 209
Okla – 328
Player Stats:
Passing…
(Tenn) J. Aguilar – 23/29, 209 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT
(Okla) J. Mateer – 34/53, 328 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT
Rushing…
(Tenn) S. Thomas – 24 att, 151 yards, 2 TD
(Tenn) J. Aguilar – 10 att, 15 yards
(Tenn) P. Lewis – 5 att, 14 yards, 1 TD
(Tenn) D. Bishop – 2 att, -1 yards, 1 TD
(Okla) J. Mateer – 14 att, 50 yards
(Okla) J. Barnes – 11 att, 29 yards, 1 TD
(Okla) J. Ott – 11 att, 18 yards
(Okla) J. Gibson – 1 att, 2 yards
Receiving…
(Tenn) B. Staley – 8 rec, 74 yards
(Tenn) C. Brazzell – 7 rec, 77 yards
(Tenn) M. Matthews – 4 rec, 36 yards
(Tenn) P. Lewis – 2 rec, 9 yards
(Tenn) M. Kitselman – 2 rec, 13 yards
(Okla) J. Gibson – 8 rec, 97 yards
(Okla) D. Burks – 8 rec, 66 yards, 2 TD
(Okla) J. Kanak – 5 rec, 38 yards
(Okla) J. Ott – 4 rec, 22 yards
(Okla) J. Gibson – 4 rec, 71 yards
(Okla) J. Barnes – 3 rec, 24 yards
(Okla) I. Sategna – 2 rec, 10 yards
Defense…
(Tenn) A. Carter – 10 tackles, 7 solo, 1 TFL, 0.5 sacks
(Tenn) D. Bailey – 5 tackles, 2 solo, 3 TFL, 0.5 sacks
(Tenn) B. Eason – 5 tackles, 3 solo, 3 TFL
(Tenn) A. Turrentine – 10 tackles, 8 solo, 1 TFL
(Tenn) T. West – 1 tackle, 1 TFL
(Okla) K. Lewis – 11 tackles, 10 solo
(Okla) P. Bowen – 11 tackles, 9 solo
(Okla) M. Jones – 2 tackles, 2 solo, 2 TFL, 1 sack
(Okla) G. Halton – 3 tackles, 3 solo, 2 TFL
(Okla) R. Thomas – 1 tackle, 1 TFL
