The past two weeks the o-line has looked like they’ve reverted back to playing 2014-style of football.
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Perine hammered out 201 yards and four touchdowns, while Joe Mixon ran for 154 yards and two more scores. OU’s quarterback acknowledges that facing his former team matters. November hasn’t been kind to the Red Raiders over the last few years and right now the team seems to be waivering right when they need to be peaking. Webb got his opportunity when Mayfield was sidelined by injury during the 2013 season.
“Things tend to work themselves out”, Kingsbury said of Mayfield and Mahomes. The big plays will be there.
Saturday was the 50th time in Sooner football history that Oklahoma has gone over 600 yards of offense in a single game.
The Sooners are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games following a ATS win and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games overall.
Texas Tech ranks third nationally with 49.4 points per game, and second with 623.7 yards of total offense per contest…. He’s among the nation’s leaders in passing yardage, passing efficiency and total offense for the 17th-ranked Sooners (5-1, 2-1 Big 12). Opposing coaches are saying Baylor’s attack is close to unstoppable. OU led 21-3 with 13:27 left in the second quarter. How Longhorns Will Win Texas needs to come out of the gate and take advantage of Kansas State’s defensive woes.
That score marked the first time that OU rushed for four touchdowns in the first half since the Texas game in 2012.
Oklahoma is coached by Bob Stoops. That result was the absolute flawless response for the Sooners after losing to Texas.
This and that: The Wildcats have only committed 34 penalties in six games and average 47 yards in penalties per game. In Lincoln Riley’s air raid system, the Sooners had struggled making Perine a focal point in the offense; coming into the weekend, he had just one 100-yard performance all season.
Texas Tech are encouraged to “Black Out” Jones AT&T Stadium on Saturday when the Red Raiders host No. 12 Oklahoma State. Unfortunately, this is a book Texas Tech fans will have read at least a hundred times by now; the defense is terrible and seems unlikely to make improvements of any significance.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders (5-2) are coming from a 30-20 win over Kansas. He picked off two passes last week against Kansas State and returned one for a score in a 55-0 win. The Sooners’ defense figures to be challenged by Texas Tech’s passing game and sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Oklahoma is #9 in pass defense and #23 in total defense nationally.
TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN2. Oklahoma now heads back to the drawing board as they prepare to take on Kansas next Saturday in Lawrence. “They had a great game and they deserved every bit of it. But as for me, I really didn’t think too much of it”. But after a loss to Texas in the Red River Rivalry, playoff hopes diminished.
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“Running the ball. That makes my job easy. All the credit due to the running game and the big guys up front and the boys making people miss”.
