It shouldn’t have amazed you. 2022 USC was a carbon copy of Riley’s years at Oklahoma. Have a potent enough offense to get you through the regular season with one loss and hope you don’t face the one team with enough offense and defense in the championship game so you make the playoff. But for an extremely unlikely Oregon State 4th quarter comeback, it would have been mission accomplished.
What amazed me was that Oregon State realized that 6 completions would be the perfect number to win that game. 5 wouldn’t have gotten the job done and 7 would have been an embarrassment of riches.