John Mateer, on this being his final season at OU: “I think being here and doing it for a whole year, being through everything, helps a lot. It just makes me feel like I have no excuse. In any leadership position, sometimes it’s like, ‘Maybe I’m not the guy to do it.’ “I’m the guy to do it. We have other good leaders, but I’m the guy who needs to get it done.”

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John Mateer, on this being his final season at OU: “I think being here and doing it for a whole year, being through everything, helps a lot. It just makes me feel like I have no excuse. In any leadership position, sometimes it’s like, ‘Maybe I’m not the guy to do it.’ “I’m the guy to do it. We have other good leaders, but I’m the guy who needs to get it done.”

George Stoia III@GeorgeStoia

Ask John Mateer what has stuck with him from last season, and it’s not the moments one would expect. “Texas and Alabama,” the Oklahoma quarterback said with a pause, “that’s all I think about.” The final installment of my four-part series on Mateer:

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