Lamb is a very good WR and he could have done some real damage in that game if he had a QB that could get him the ball… However, Surtain improved greatly over the next two years, so I certainly wouldn’t expect the matchup to be similar today.
In three seasons, Surtain got a ton of experience and some of the best coaching you can get in the college ranks. Which is why people were worried about him already being maxed out. By 2020 he was, in a lot of ways, a different guy than this video of him as a true freshman.
But yeah, Alabama was lucky that OU didn’t have much of a thrower at QB that day.