But the difference comes in the secondary, where WVU has much more experience than the Sooners defenders. Nine touchdowns to one interception, this kid is going places.
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The Sooners had two critical strip-sacks in the game. The 14th-ranked Sooners come off a bye week.
The Sooners defeated Tulsa, 52-38, two weeks ago. That’s a key tenet of coach Dana Holgorsen’s version of the Air Raid offense, and it’s part of what allows the Mountaineers to put up video game numbers on opponents. The concern is that Oklahoma’s defense has not improved from past year by getting burned trying to defend spread offenses.
West Virginia’s offense is averaging 543.3 yards and 41 points per game this season, albeit against mostly outmanned competition (Georgia Southern, Liberty and Maryland).
Baker Mayfield threw a 17-yard touchdown to Mark Andrews for his third touchdown of the season.
13 of the Oklahoma’s points were scored off West Virginia turnovers. Wendell Smallwood ran for 111 yards for the Mountaineers (3-1, 0-1).
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) passes in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game against West Virginia in Norman, Okla., Saturday, October 3, 2015. Punter Nick O’Toole is ranked 16th with an average of 46.6 yards per kick.
The Sooners are off to a 4-0 start for the third straight season, the first time Stoops has pulled off that feat in more than a decade.
The Mountaineers have been dominant through September, but facing the Sooners is a different deal than playing Maryland at home.
Big 12: C+ The Big 12 needs a few dominant teams, so No. 4 TCU pulling out a win at Texas Tech was positive for the conference. Quarterback Seth Russell is best in the nation in pass efficiency, and receiver Corey Coleman leads the country with most all-purpose plays (eight) of at least 30 yards.
The fifth-year senior linebacker has emerged as one of the nation’s most fearsome pass rushers. The offense still has to compete for a full sixty minutes to date and now it will encounter a pretty good defense. Four players have double-digit catches.
Oklahoma wide receiver Sterling Shepard (3) catches a pass from…
Skyler Howard threw three interceptions and lost two fumbles for the Mountaineers, who had committed just two turnovers in their first three games.
If he maintains this pace, Striker may be a first-team All America linebacker at season’s end.
UTSA will attempt to win its first game of the season Saturday…
“We actually tried it our first game”, he said, “and the first time we tried it we jumped offside and spooked ourselves a little bit”. “It’s hard to play them both if you’re in nickel. They were in a bunch of unbalanced sets, and they “big boyed” us”. Both of these Top 25 teams are undefeated and each will head in opposite directions after the final whistle. His experience should help this week. A West Virginia defensive breakdown immediately made the margin 10 points three plays later. The Sooners were also able to execute a ideal fake screen for a 71-yard touchdown to Durron Neal when WVU blitzed.
It was that day that Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops learned he could depend on Perine as a workhorse. I’m happy where we are. However, the Sooners only give up 147 yards on the ground.
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Those were the words Evans remembered hearing from DeBerry as he embraced 84,384 fans that striped Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium for OU’s first home game against a ranked opponent. What a perfectly poised team, it’s not often we see a team with such accuracy all across the board.
