“Stoops, he emphasized to us all week that we needed to create our own energy going into this game based on the crowd, how quiet it is here”, Oklahoma linebacker Frank Shannon said. WR Tre Parmelee had six catches for a career-high 115 yards against the Cowboys….
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On the second play of Oklahoma’s next drive, Mayfield found running back Joe Mixon for a 68-yard touchdown pass.
Perine rushed for 90 yards and two touchdowns while Mixon contributed 116 total yards and one receiving score. “Who knows what will happen when we get a bigger crowd now, so we’re doing a good job right now”.
Two Big 12 teams on divergent paths meet Saturday as No. 14 Oklahoma (6-1) travels to Memorial Stadium to face winless Kansas (0-7). Mayfield’s also punched in four rushing touchdowns, though all came in Oklahoma’s first three games of the 2015 campaign.
KU’s defense understands that getting off the field and letting the offense attack has to turn around in the last four games of the season.
The Sooners kicked a field goal with 2:03 remaining in the third quarter, upping their lead to 55-7. The Sooners will try to top 50 points for a third straight week for the first time since 2008….
The only time Oklahoma’s offense was stopped in the first half was on the opening drive. (So should thousands of Oklahoma fans.) “We don’t do much different other than make them aware that, ‘Hey, listen, people are counting on us, just like they are every week, ‘” Beaty said, “but this is Homecoming, man. It’s a big deal”. The Sooners scored again on their next drive, which culminated in an 11-yard touchdown pass to Durron Neal.
Baker Mayfield hit Shepard for a 41-yard gain on the first play of the game and though Oklahoma’s drive fizzled after that, the Sooners quickly got to work building their lead. Eric Striker recovered the fumble and OU used the turnover to drive to another touchdown.
That set up a Ryan Willis 17-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Patrick on the first play of the second quarter to cut the OU lead to 21-7.
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ABOUT KANSAS (0-7, 0-4): The Jayhawks are one of the youngest teams in the nation with 37 first-year players… and it shows, scoring just 16 touchdowns in seven games while allowing 38 or more points in five of their seven losses. The score capped a 14-play drive that lasted almost 6 minutes.
