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Sooners Set for West Texas Showdown
November 20, 2009 | Football
NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma plays its final road game of the 2009 regular season when the Sooners travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech Saturday at 11:30 a.m. OU is coming off an impressive 65-10 victory over Texas A&M, while the Red Raiders will be trying to bounce back from a 24-17 loss at Oklahoma State.
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The Series
Oklahoma leads the series with Texas Tech, 12-4, including a 4-3 advantage at Lubbock. The Red Raiders have won the last two meetings on their field. Last season, No. 5 OU posted a 65-21 win over No. 2 Tech in Norman. The losing team in this series has not scored less than 21 points in any of the last four games.
The Coaches
• Bob Stoops (Iowa '83) is 115-28 in his 11th season at Oklahoma. He is 77-16 vs. the Big 12, 41-11 vs. the Big 12 South, 35-5 vs. the Big 12 North, 6-1 in the Big 12 title game, 39-12 vs. non-conference opponents, 65-2 at home, 33-13 on the road, 17-13 on neutral fields, 34-15 vs. ranked opponents, 4-6 in bowls. He is 7-3 vs. Texas Tech.
• Mike Leach (BYU '83) is 76-43 in his 10th season at Texas A&M . He is 2-7 against Oklahoma.
The Program
• Oklahoma's all-time record stands at 797-301-53 in 115 seasons. Since WWII, OU leads the nation with 553 victories.
• The Sooners have captured seven national championships (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000).
• OU has 42 bowl appearances (No. 7 nationally) with 24 bowl victories (No. 4 nationally).
• Oklahoma has 42 conference championships, including the last three Big 12 Conference crowns and six Big 12 titles overall (no other league member has more than two)
• OU has produced 148 All-Americans and five Heisman Trophy winners. Sooners have also won the Bednarik (1), Butkus (4), Walter Camp (4), Lombardi (3), Maxwell (2), Nagurski (2), O'Brien (3), (Outland (5), Tatupu (1), Thorpe (3) and Unitas (1) Awards.
• With 31, 10-win seasons, OU leads the nation in total number of years in which the team achieved double-digit victories.
• This is Oklahoma's best decade for total victories. In the 2000s, OU is 108-23 while the Sooners were 102-13-3 in the 1970s.
Oklahoma Football History & Tradition
Ties With This Week's Opponent
• Texas Tech Head Coach Mike Leach was Oklahoma's offensive coordinator in 1999, Bob Stoops' first year in Norman.
• Red Raiders Defensive Ends Coach Charlie Sadler was at OU as an offensive line assistant in 1978, then was back in Norman from 1984-90 as the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach.
Big 12, Big Familiarity
When Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops looks across the field in the Big 12 Conference, it often means looking at a former co-worker:
• Kansas - Mark Mangino was an OU asst., 1999-2001
• Kansas St. - Stoops assisted under Bill Snyder, 1989-95
• Nebraska - Bo Pelini was OU's co-def. coor., in 2004
• Texas Tech - Mike Leach was OU's off. coor., in 1999
Two other former Stoops assistants also are head coaches in Arizona's Mike Stoops, his brother, and Houston's Kevin Sumlin, but the OU mentor is yet to coach against either one.
Oklahoma's Big 12 Dominance
• OU's all-time Big 12 regular season record is 79-31. That mark jumps to 85-32 if counting title games. Bob Stoops is 71-15 in the regular season, 77-16 counting all. Before he arrived, OU's Big 12 record stood at 8-16.
• The Sooners have won the last three conference titles. No other program has won even back-to-back crowns.
Oklahoma's Most Recent Game | OU 65, Texas A&M 10
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Highlights
• Oklahoma scored four touchdowns after A&M turnovers, including a 52-yard fumble return by CB Brian Jackson for OU's first score.
• RB DeMarco Murray had 223 all purpose yards and two touchdowns. He tied a 47-year-old OU record for receiving yards by a running back with 143 on just five grabs. He scored on receptions of 36 and 67 yards.
• WR Ryan Broyles also scored a pair of TDs with a 25-yard rush and a 5-yard reception.
• Landry Jones completed 24-of-39 passes for 392 yards with five TDs and one interception. The TD figure would have tied the school record if not for his own record-setting six-TD performance vs. Tulsa earlier this year.
• OU rolled up 640 yards of total offense, 392 through the air and 248 on the ground.
• The Sooners' leading rusher was third-strong back Jermie Calhoun. The redshirt freshman finished with 94 yards on 18 carries despite not entering the game until the 3:00 mark of the third quarter.
• OU' s defense stymied A&M, allowing just 167 yards through the air and 59 on the ground. Jarrod Johnson was 12-of-33 with one interception and one TD.
• A&M's lone touchdown came after an interception set up the Aggies first-and-goal from the Oklahoma one.
• Vaunted A&M pass rusher Von Miller, who entered the game as the nation's leader in sacks, credited with one assisted tackle in the game and no sacks.
• Oklahoma used three different placekickers in the game, including Patrick O'Hara, a walk-on transfer, who made two extra points and a 26-yard field goal while playing in his first college game.
Injury List Lengthy
Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham, Brody Eldridge, Jarvis Jones and DE Auston English are out for the season...
• Bradford, the Heisman-winning QB, sprained the AC joint in his right shoulder in the second quarter of the season opener vs. BYU then aggravated the injury on the second series of game six vs. Texas. The only game he completed uninjured was game five vs. Baylor. Bradford set 15 school records. Among those are career passing yards (8,403) and touchdown passes (88)
• TE Gresham did not play after season-ending knee surgery in early Sept. He had 26 career TD receptions, seven shy of the NCAA record, and more TD catches and yards (1,629) than any TE at OU.
• Eldridge started the season opener at center, played games two-five at tight end before moving to left guard. He suffered his season-ending shoulder injury at Nebraska. Eldridge was the only player BCS player this season to start at three different positions and the first OU player to do so during one season (modern era).
The senior has had the top line grade in all five of his line starts. He had 66 knockdowns, a high of 20 against BYU.
• English suffered a season-ending ankle injury at Nebraska. He wraps up his career with 18.5 sacks, 28.5 TFL and 92 total tackles.
• Jones, an OT, fractured his heal at Nebraska.
• OU played without three key performers in G Brian Simmons (missed last four games), RB DeMarco Murray (missed Kansas) and WR Ryan Broyles (missed Baylor, played one snap at Miami).
More on the Injuries
• Season-ending injuries to starters in Stoops' 11 years ...
• Total number: 26
• Average number: 2.4
• Most in one season: 5 (2009, 2001)
• Fewest in one season: 0 (2000)
• Total lost from 2002-2005 (four seasons): 5
• Most lost in a Big 12 title season: 3 (2006, 2007)
Ambitious Scheduling | Future Schedules
Oklahoma has numerous marquee non-conference opponents coming up on future schedules ...
• Florida State (2010), at Florida State (2011)
• Notre Dame (2012), at Notre Dame (2013)
• Tennessee (2014), at Tennessee (2015)
• Ohio State (2016), at Ohio State (2017)
• LSU (2018), at LSU (2019).
• Under Bob Stoops, Oklahoma has already played Louisville, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Alabama (twice), UCLA (twice), Oregon (twice), Washington (twice), South Florida, Miami (twice) and Cincinnati in regular season contests.
OU Sets Home Streak Record
Oklahoma has won 29 straight home games, the longest current streak in the nation, and a school record. The previous mark was 25 before a loss in the 1953 season opener to Notre Dame, 28-21.
• Bob Stoops' teams are 65-2 at home and the Sooners have won 49 of their last 50 on Owen Field.
• Other long OU home streaks and the years they ended include 21 (1975), 20 (1957).
• Other long home streaks under Stoops were 22, 19, 19.
• OU's all-time record at its current facility, which opened in 1923, is 348-78-15 (.806).
Football Facilities Get Upgrade
The $15 million Phase IV of the Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium was completed this summer and included the following ...
• A 9,000 square-foot football locker room, including grooming areas, cold-plunge hydrotherapy, and lounge.
• A 10,000 square-foot athletic training space.
• A 6,500 square-foot equipment room.
• A 4,000 square-foot team meeting room equipped with the latest technology, sound and video equipment and seating for more than 200 added to the more than 8,000 square feet of existing team meeting rooms.
• Expansion of and upgrades to the SoonerVision studio and production facilities.
Stoops Era Yielding Record Attendance
Oklahoma has drawn 5,352,792 fans for Bob Stoops' 67 home games (started in 1999) and all have been sold out.
• The Sooners are 65-2 on Owen Field under Stoops and have won 29 straight, a school record.
• The current string of sellouts is the second longest in school history, trailing a string of 69 from 1971-84.
• The average home attendance of 85,075 in 2008 was a school record. The top nine seasons for football attendance at Oklahoma came on Stoops' watch.
• The largest home crowd in school history was 85,646, on hand for the 2008 OU-Texas Tech game.
• Oklahoma has exceeded its listed seating capacity of 82,112 at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 41 consecutive home games.
• Oklahoma has played before sellout crowds in 117 of the 143 games (home, away, neutral) since Stoops became the head coach. During that time, a total of 10,361,490 (average of 72,458) have watched the Sooners. The gathering of 96,009 for this season's Texas game was the second-largest ever to see OU play.
Oklahoma Sets Attendance Records at Memorial Stadium
• Under Stoops, OU produced career leaders in passing and receiving, its No. 3 and No. 5 career rushers and season record holders in rushing, passing, receiving yards.
• Of 83 offensive records at OU, 55 were set under Stoops.
• OU has rushed for 200 yards 43 times under Stoops, 37 in the last six years.
• Under Stoops, OU has 146 touchdowns of 25+ yards and 299 scoring drives of 2:00 or less.
• OU is the highest scoring program of all-time. In 1,149 games, the Sooners have scored 30,755 points, or 26.8 per game. Michigan has 29,777 points in 1,212 games and Nebraska 29,693 in 1,209.
Keeping Up With Jones
QB Landry Jones was the starter vs. Idaho State, Tulsa, Miami, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska and Texas A&M.
• Jones set a school record with six TD passes vs. Tulsa. The previous mark of five was held by Sam Bradford, Jason White and Josh Heupel, two Heisman winners and a Heisman runner-up. Jones threw five against A&M.
• Jones ranks No. 8 nationally in TD passes (22)..
• This is the 19th time since 1954 that OU's starting QB has been injured and replaced by a back-up, the third time on Bob Stoops' watch.
First Time Ever
OU has two players on the same roster with at least 40 career TDs. Chris Brown has 45 and DeMarco Murray 42.
• In 2008, they teamed with Sam Bradford to set an NCAA record as OU was the first program to have two 1,000-yard rushers and a 4,000-yard passer in the same year.
2,000 Yards Times 2
Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray are the sixth tandem in school history to exceed 2,000 career rushing yards while playing on the same roster. • Brown, a senior, has 2,782 yards, while Murray, a junior, has 2,358.
• Here is the elite list of players who eclipsed 2,000 career rushing yards while holding down a spot on the same Oklahoma roster ...
1971 -- QB Jack Mildren, RB Greg Pruitt
1972 -- RB Greg Pruitt, FB Leon Crosswhite
1975 -- QB Steve Davis, RB Joe Washington
1978 -- QB Thomas Lott, RB Billy Sims, FB/RB Kenny King
1986 -- RB Lydell Carr, RB Spencer Tillman
1987 -- RB Lydell Carr, QB Jamelle Holieway
2005 -- RB Adrian Peterson, RB Kejuan Jones
2009 -- Chris Brown, DeMarco Murray
Broyles' Breakout Year
Twice this season (Tulsa, Kansas) Ryan Broyles has logged 11 receptions in a game. The school record is 12. He leads the team with 60 grabs for 744 yards and 110 TDs.
• Injury held him out vs. Baylor and most of Miami tilt.
• He now ranks No. 10 for a season at OU in catches, No. 9 in receiving yards. He is tied for No. 3 in season touchdown receptions.
Sooner Awards: Ryan Broyles
Trench Talk
OU has one returning starter on the offensive line ...
• The four players who are not back started 148 games at OU. Three are in the NFL -- OT Phil Loadholt (Vikings), C Jon Cooper (Vikings) and OG Duke Robinson (Panthers).
• The returnees entered '09 44 games and 22 starts.
• Nine different players have had starting assignments on the OU line this season with six different combinations.
• In '08, the same combination started the last 13 games. This season, the longest streak was three.
• Oklahoma is tied for No. 14 nationally in fewest sacks allowed at 1.0 per game. Over the last two seasons, OU quarterbacks have been sacked 27 times in 24 games. During that same time frame, they threw 882 passes.
• OU forced at least one turnover in 126 of Bob Stoops' 142 games and has at least one interception in 94 of the last 124; multiple picks in 45 of the last 95 outings.
• Oklahoma has 11 shutouts under its current head coach. Opponents failed to score more than seven points 32 times and scored less than 15 in 60 games.
Two Weeks Too Good
Over the last two weeks, Oklahoma gave up a total of 20 points, 10 in each game. Both opposing TDs came when the opponent returned an interception deep into OU territory. Those two scoring drives amounted to a total of six yards (Nebraska one, Texas A&M five).
• Nebraska and A&M combined for 20 first downs and 20 punts.
Sooner "D" Nationally
OU's ranks No. 2 nationally in red zone defense (65%), No. 2 in tackles for loss (8.5), No. 2 in sacks (3.3), No. 5 in rushing defense (84.0), No. 5 in scoring defense (12.1), No. 6 in total defense (262.4), No. 7 in first-down defense (14.9), No. 9 in pass efficiency defense (97.8), No. 11 in turnovers gained (25), No. 12 in third-down defense (32.3%), No. 13 in INTs (14) and No. 18 in pass defense (178.4).
The Real McCoy
A frontrunner for several awards, DT Gerald McCoy, still a junior, is the most experienced player on the defense with 37 career starts. He has been a regular target of double-team blocking this season ...
• McCoy is second on the team with 13.5 TFL (No. 15 nationally). He has made 31 or 42% of his 72 career stops behind the line of scrimmage.
• McCoy has 37th consecutive starts to tie with Scott Evans (1987-90) for the longest string by an OU interior defensive lineman. The all-time record for consecutive starts is 44 by RB Quentin Griffin (1999-2002).
Sooner Awards: Gerald McCoy
The Real Beal
DE Jeremy Beal has 16.0 tackles for loss (No. 10 nationally) and 11.0 sacks (No. 6 nationally) ...
• His 11 sacks are tied with Cedric Jones (1995) for No. 4 in OU history. The school record of 14 held jointly by Martin Chase (1997) and Cedric Jones (1994).
• He had a career-high 12 tackles vs. Texas.
• He is the only player in school history to log two, three-sacks games in the same season (Tulsa, Miami).
• With 20.5 career sacks, he is tied for No. 6 in OU history with Aubrey Beavers (1990-93).
Sooner Awards: Jeremy Beal
Weak Freak
WLB Travis Lewis led Oklahoma last season with 144 tackles (No. 4 nationally and a freshman school record, Brian Bosworth's mark of 133).
• He leads again this season with 85. Lewis averages 8.5 tackles per game, down from last season's 10.3, but it should also be noted that OU opponents are running five fewer plays per game this season than last.
• Lewis has four double-digit tackle games this season and 11 in his 24 career games.
• The sophomore is at 229 career tackles. Daryl Hunt owns the school record of 530. To crack the top 10, Lewis would have to eclipse Lee Roy Selmon's total of 335.
Interceptions in Bunches
Oklahoma has 14 interceptions this season. The best total of the 11-year Stoops era is 24 in 2002. OU is averaging 12.6 yards per return.
• OU has multiple interceptions in five games (season-high three at Kansas) and at least one in eight games.
• CB Brian Jackson's streak of interceptions in consecutive games ended at four at Kansas. It marked only the second time in school history that a player had an interception in four straight games (modern era), the first by a cornerback. Scott Case, a safety, did it in 1983.
Defensive Miscellany
• Oklahoma has 25 takeaways. The team converted 14 of those into scores amounting to 90 points.
• The OU defense has scored in each of Bob Stoops' 11 seasons. The only position that has not scored a touchdown during that time is defensive tackle.
• OU set a school record with 17 TFL vs. Idaho State.
• Oklahoma limited Idaho State to -22 yards on 32 rushing attempts. That was the second-best performance under Bob Stoops. The '06 team limited Baylor to -48 (20 attempts). In the opener, BYU rushed 33 times for 28 yards. Baylor had 17 rushes for 6 yards.
• OU held Nebraska to 39 passing yards, the lowest total of the season. The lowest passing total vs. a Stoops team was 13 yards by Arkansas in the 2002 Cotton Bowl.
Oklahoma's special teams under Bob Stoops ...
• There have been 26 special teams touchdowns, including 20 in the last 75 regular season games. Those 20 came via five different kinds of plays -- 11 punt returns, two faked field goals, two blocked punts, four kickoff returns and a faked punt. Special teams also own one safety in that span.
• OU has returned eight kickoffs and 15 punts for TDs.
• The Sooners have blocked 24 kicks.
Many Happy Returns
Information on returns during the Stoops era ...
• Kickoff Returns --93 returns of 25 yards+ with eight TD.
• Punt Returns -- 57 ret., of 15+ with 15 touchdowns.
• Interception Returns -- 80 ret., of 10+ yards with 21 TD.
• Fumble Returns -- six returns of 15+ yards with 8 TD.
Getting His "Way" at Punter
Tress Way is averaging 44.0 yards on 45 punts with 11 downed inside the 20 and 14 of 50+ yards ...
• His ranks No. 12 nationally in punting average.
• The best punting average achieved in Bob Stoops' tenure at Oklahoma was 42.8 yards in 2006. Way's current average would rank No. 2 to Jack Jacobs, who averaged 47.8 on 40 punts in 1940.
• Way had a 71-yard punt at Miami, the longest by a Sooner since Mike Cohen's 72-yarder in 2006.
• The second-team punter is WR Cameron Kenney. At Garden City (Kan.) CC last season, Kenney averaged 47.0 yards. He also converted 11-of-13 PATs and 8-of-9 FGs, (makes from 40, 41, 52 yards). OU has not a position player in a kicking role since DB/P Darrol Ray in 1978.
Potent Punt Return Tandem
Ryan Broyles and Dominique Franks are the first two OU punt returners to log 100-yard games in the same year.
• Franks had a 30+ yard punt return in three straight. He inherited the role after Ryan Broyles suffered a shoulder injury against Miami.
• Broyles is No. 16 at 13.8. OU's team rank is No. 10 (14.7). Franks is averaging 17.0 ypr, but doesn't have enough attempts to be included in the NCAA stats.
• Franks had four returns for 100 total yards against Baylor, the first 100-yard punt return game by a Sooner since 2003 when All-America return specialist Antonio Perkins accomplished the feat against Missouri. Broyles then went for 102 on six returns at Nebraska.
Whitson Holding Steady
WR Carter Whitson is in his second year as holder. A QB for part of his HS career, Whitson is the first to serve in that role for back-to-back seasons during Stoops' tenure.
• Whitson had a two-yard rush on a faked field goal at Miami. The play resulted in a first down and kept alive a drive that later yielded a field goal.
got it covered
• Oklahoma ranks No. 2 nationally in punt coverage. Opponents have returned 13 punts for a total of 16 yards. Tress Way has punted 45 times for the Sooners. He has nine touchbacks and six fair catches.
• Last season, OU opponents returned four kickoffs for TDs and averaged 23.8 per return. This year, there has been one TD and the return average is down to 21.0.
Kick It
Jimmy Stevens was OU's kicker for placements through the first six games and was then replaced by Tress Way. Walk-on Patrick O'Hara saw his first action vs. A&M ...
• Way is 1-of-6, but his misses include attempts from 54, 46, 45 and 42 yards. He got his first start against Kansas and has made all 11 of his PAT tries.
• Stevens is 11-of-13 on field goals this season with the misses coming from 40 and 45 yards. He has made 27-of-29 PATs.
• Stevens tied the school record for field goals made when he went 4-of-4 against Baylor.
• O'Hara has made his only field goal attempts (26 yards) and both PAT tries. O'Hara, a transfer from Washburn University (D-II school in Topeka, Kan.) had never played in a football game until he kicked against Texas A&M. He has played several years of competitive soccer.
• Matthew Moreland, who handled kickoffs last season, is in that role again this season. Way is Moreland's back-up.
Right Back at Ya
The Sooners have three blocked kicks this year, a punt against Idaho State and two PATs against Kansas State. Marcus Trice got the punt, while Adrian Taylor and Auston English batted down the PATs.
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The Series
Oklahoma leads the series with Texas Tech, 12-4, including a 4-3 advantage at Lubbock. The Red Raiders have won the last two meetings on their field. Last season, No. 5 OU posted a 65-21 win over No. 2 Tech in Norman. The losing team in this series has not scored less than 21 points in any of the last four games.
 OU, Tech & Big 12 Game Notes | OU Depth Chart | 2009 OU Football Guide
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The Coaches
• Bob Stoops (Iowa '83) is 115-28 in his 11th season at Oklahoma. He is 77-16 vs. the Big 12, 41-11 vs. the Big 12 South, 35-5 vs. the Big 12 North, 6-1 in the Big 12 title game, 39-12 vs. non-conference opponents, 65-2 at home, 33-13 on the road, 17-13 on neutral fields, 34-15 vs. ranked opponents, 4-6 in bowls. He is 7-3 vs. Texas Tech.
• Mike Leach (BYU '83) is 76-43 in his 10th season at Texas A&M . He is 2-7 against Oklahoma.
The Program
• Oklahoma's all-time record stands at 797-301-53 in 115 seasons. Since WWII, OU leads the nation with 553 victories.
• The Sooners have captured seven national championships (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000).
• OU has 42 bowl appearances (No. 7 nationally) with 24 bowl victories (No. 4 nationally).
• Oklahoma has 42 conference championships, including the last three Big 12 Conference crowns and six Big 12 titles overall (no other league member has more than two)
• OU has produced 148 All-Americans and five Heisman Trophy winners. Sooners have also won the Bednarik (1), Butkus (4), Walter Camp (4), Lombardi (3), Maxwell (2), Nagurski (2), O'Brien (3), (Outland (5), Tatupu (1), Thorpe (3) and Unitas (1) Awards.
• With 31, 10-win seasons, OU leads the nation in total number of years in which the team achieved double-digit victories.
• This is Oklahoma's best decade for total victories. In the 2000s, OU is 108-23 while the Sooners were 102-13-3 in the 1970s.
Oklahoma Football History & Tradition
Ties With This Week's Opponent
• Texas Tech Head Coach Mike Leach was Oklahoma's offensive coordinator in 1999, Bob Stoops' first year in Norman.
• Red Raiders Defensive Ends Coach Charlie Sadler was at OU as an offensive line assistant in 1978, then was back in Norman from 1984-90 as the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach.
Big 12, Big Familiarity
When Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops looks across the field in the Big 12 Conference, it often means looking at a former co-worker:
• Kansas - Mark Mangino was an OU asst., 1999-2001
• Kansas St. - Stoops assisted under Bill Snyder, 1989-95
• Nebraska - Bo Pelini was OU's co-def. coor., in 2004
• Texas Tech - Mike Leach was OU's off. coor., in 1999
Two other former Stoops assistants also are head coaches in Arizona's Mike Stoops, his brother, and Houston's Kevin Sumlin, but the OU mentor is yet to coach against either one.
Oklahoma's Big 12 Dominance
• OU's all-time Big 12 regular season record is 79-31. That mark jumps to 85-32 if counting title games. Bob Stoops is 71-15 in the regular season, 77-16 counting all. Before he arrived, OU's Big 12 record stood at 8-16.
• The Sooners have won the last three conference titles. No other program has won even back-to-back crowns.
Oklahoma's Most Recent Game | OU 65, Texas A&M 10
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Photos | Highlights• Oklahoma scored four touchdowns after A&M turnovers, including a 52-yard fumble return by CB Brian Jackson for OU's first score.
• RB DeMarco Murray had 223 all purpose yards and two touchdowns. He tied a 47-year-old OU record for receiving yards by a running back with 143 on just five grabs. He scored on receptions of 36 and 67 yards.
• WR Ryan Broyles also scored a pair of TDs with a 25-yard rush and a 5-yard reception.
• Landry Jones completed 24-of-39 passes for 392 yards with five TDs and one interception. The TD figure would have tied the school record if not for his own record-setting six-TD performance vs. Tulsa earlier this year.
• OU rolled up 640 yards of total offense, 392 through the air and 248 on the ground.
• The Sooners' leading rusher was third-strong back Jermie Calhoun. The redshirt freshman finished with 94 yards on 18 carries despite not entering the game until the 3:00 mark of the third quarter.
• OU' s defense stymied A&M, allowing just 167 yards through the air and 59 on the ground. Jarrod Johnson was 12-of-33 with one interception and one TD.
• A&M's lone touchdown came after an interception set up the Aggies first-and-goal from the Oklahoma one.
• Vaunted A&M pass rusher Von Miller, who entered the game as the nation's leader in sacks, credited with one assisted tackle in the game and no sacks.
• Oklahoma used three different placekickers in the game, including Patrick O'Hara, a walk-on transfer, who made two extra points and a 26-yard field goal while playing in his first college game.
Injury List Lengthy
Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham, Brody Eldridge, Jarvis Jones and DE Auston English are out for the season...
• Bradford, the Heisman-winning QB, sprained the AC joint in his right shoulder in the second quarter of the season opener vs. BYU then aggravated the injury on the second series of game six vs. Texas. The only game he completed uninjured was game five vs. Baylor. Bradford set 15 school records. Among those are career passing yards (8,403) and touchdown passes (88)
• TE Gresham did not play after season-ending knee surgery in early Sept. He had 26 career TD receptions, seven shy of the NCAA record, and more TD catches and yards (1,629) than any TE at OU.
• Eldridge started the season opener at center, played games two-five at tight end before moving to left guard. He suffered his season-ending shoulder injury at Nebraska. Eldridge was the only player BCS player this season to start at three different positions and the first OU player to do so during one season (modern era).
The senior has had the top line grade in all five of his line starts. He had 66 knockdowns, a high of 20 against BYU.
• English suffered a season-ending ankle injury at Nebraska. He wraps up his career with 18.5 sacks, 28.5 TFL and 92 total tackles.
• Jones, an OT, fractured his heal at Nebraska.
• OU played without three key performers in G Brian Simmons (missed last four games), RB DeMarco Murray (missed Kansas) and WR Ryan Broyles (missed Baylor, played one snap at Miami).
More on the Injuries
• Season-ending injuries to starters in Stoops' 11 years ...
• Total number: 26
• Average number: 2.4
• Most in one season: 5 (2009, 2001)
• Fewest in one season: 0 (2000)
• Total lost from 2002-2005 (four seasons): 5
• Most lost in a Big 12 title season: 3 (2006, 2007)
Ambitious Scheduling | Future Schedules
Oklahoma has numerous marquee non-conference opponents coming up on future schedules ...
• Florida State (2010), at Florida State (2011)
• Notre Dame (2012), at Notre Dame (2013)
• Tennessee (2014), at Tennessee (2015)
• Ohio State (2016), at Ohio State (2017)
• LSU (2018), at LSU (2019).
• Under Bob Stoops, Oklahoma has already played Louisville, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Alabama (twice), UCLA (twice), Oregon (twice), Washington (twice), South Florida, Miami (twice) and Cincinnati in regular season contests.
OU Sets Home Streak Record
Oklahoma has won 29 straight home games, the longest current streak in the nation, and a school record. The previous mark was 25 before a loss in the 1953 season opener to Notre Dame, 28-21.
• Bob Stoops' teams are 65-2 at home and the Sooners have won 49 of their last 50 on Owen Field.
• Other long OU home streaks and the years they ended include 21 (1975), 20 (1957).
• Other long home streaks under Stoops were 22, 19, 19.
• OU's all-time record at its current facility, which opened in 1923, is 348-78-15 (.806).
Football Facilities Get Upgrade
The $15 million Phase IV of the Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium was completed this summer and included the following ...
• A 9,000 square-foot football locker room, including grooming areas, cold-plunge hydrotherapy, and lounge.
• A 10,000 square-foot athletic training space.
• A 6,500 square-foot equipment room.
• A 4,000 square-foot team meeting room equipped with the latest technology, sound and video equipment and seating for more than 200 added to the more than 8,000 square feet of existing team meeting rooms.
• Expansion of and upgrades to the SoonerVision studio and production facilities.
Stoops Era Yielding Record Attendance
Oklahoma has drawn 5,352,792 fans for Bob Stoops' 67 home games (started in 1999) and all have been sold out.
• The Sooners are 65-2 on Owen Field under Stoops and have won 29 straight, a school record.
• The current string of sellouts is the second longest in school history, trailing a string of 69 from 1971-84.
• The average home attendance of 85,075 in 2008 was a school record. The top nine seasons for football attendance at Oklahoma came on Stoops' watch.
• The largest home crowd in school history was 85,646, on hand for the 2008 OU-Texas Tech game.
• Oklahoma has exceeded its listed seating capacity of 82,112 at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 41 consecutive home games.
• Oklahoma has played before sellout crowds in 117 of the 143 games (home, away, neutral) since Stoops became the head coach. During that time, a total of 10,361,490 (average of 72,458) have watched the Sooners. The gathering of 96,009 for this season's Texas game was the second-largest ever to see OU play.
Oklahoma Sets Attendance Records at Memorial Stadium
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About the Sooner Offense |
• Under Stoops, OU produced career leaders in passing and receiving, its No. 3 and No. 5 career rushers and season record holders in rushing, passing, receiving yards.
• Of 83 offensive records at OU, 55 were set under Stoops.
• OU has rushed for 200 yards 43 times under Stoops, 37 in the last six years.
• Under Stoops, OU has 146 touchdowns of 25+ yards and 299 scoring drives of 2:00 or less.
• OU is the highest scoring program of all-time. In 1,149 games, the Sooners have scored 30,755 points, or 26.8 per game. Michigan has 29,777 points in 1,212 games and Nebraska 29,693 in 1,209.
Keeping Up With Jones
QB Landry Jones was the starter vs. Idaho State, Tulsa, Miami, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska and Texas A&M.
• Jones set a school record with six TD passes vs. Tulsa. The previous mark of five was held by Sam Bradford, Jason White and Josh Heupel, two Heisman winners and a Heisman runner-up. Jones threw five against A&M.
• Jones ranks No. 8 nationally in TD passes (22)..
• This is the 19th time since 1954 that OU's starting QB has been injured and replaced by a back-up, the third time on Bob Stoops' watch.
First Time Ever
OU has two players on the same roster with at least 40 career TDs. Chris Brown has 45 and DeMarco Murray 42.
• In 2008, they teamed with Sam Bradford to set an NCAA record as OU was the first program to have two 1,000-yard rushers and a 4,000-yard passer in the same year.
2,000 Yards Times 2
Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray are the sixth tandem in school history to exceed 2,000 career rushing yards while playing on the same roster. • Brown, a senior, has 2,782 yards, while Murray, a junior, has 2,358.
• Here is the elite list of players who eclipsed 2,000 career rushing yards while holding down a spot on the same Oklahoma roster ...
1971 -- QB Jack Mildren, RB Greg Pruitt
1972 -- RB Greg Pruitt, FB Leon Crosswhite
1975 -- QB Steve Davis, RB Joe Washington
1978 -- QB Thomas Lott, RB Billy Sims, FB/RB Kenny King
1986 -- RB Lydell Carr, RB Spencer Tillman
1987 -- RB Lydell Carr, QB Jamelle Holieway
2005 -- RB Adrian Peterson, RB Kejuan Jones
2009 -- Chris Brown, DeMarco Murray
Broyles' Breakout Year
Twice this season (Tulsa, Kansas) Ryan Broyles has logged 11 receptions in a game. The school record is 12. He leads the team with 60 grabs for 744 yards and 110 TDs.
• Injury held him out vs. Baylor and most of Miami tilt.
• He now ranks No. 10 for a season at OU in catches, No. 9 in receiving yards. He is tied for No. 3 in season touchdown receptions.
Sooner Awards: Ryan Broyles
Trench Talk
OU has one returning starter on the offensive line ...
• The four players who are not back started 148 games at OU. Three are in the NFL -- OT Phil Loadholt (Vikings), C Jon Cooper (Vikings) and OG Duke Robinson (Panthers).
• The returnees entered '09 44 games and 22 starts.
• Nine different players have had starting assignments on the OU line this season with six different combinations.
• In '08, the same combination started the last 13 games. This season, the longest streak was three.
• Oklahoma is tied for No. 14 nationally in fewest sacks allowed at 1.0 per game. Over the last two seasons, OU quarterbacks have been sacked 27 times in 24 games. During that same time frame, they threw 882 passes.
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About the Sooner Defense |
• OU forced at least one turnover in 126 of Bob Stoops' 142 games and has at least one interception in 94 of the last 124; multiple picks in 45 of the last 95 outings.
• Oklahoma has 11 shutouts under its current head coach. Opponents failed to score more than seven points 32 times and scored less than 15 in 60 games.
Two Weeks Too Good
Over the last two weeks, Oklahoma gave up a total of 20 points, 10 in each game. Both opposing TDs came when the opponent returned an interception deep into OU territory. Those two scoring drives amounted to a total of six yards (Nebraska one, Texas A&M five).
• Nebraska and A&M combined for 20 first downs and 20 punts.
Sooner "D" Nationally
OU's ranks No. 2 nationally in red zone defense (65%), No. 2 in tackles for loss (8.5), No. 2 in sacks (3.3), No. 5 in rushing defense (84.0), No. 5 in scoring defense (12.1), No. 6 in total defense (262.4), No. 7 in first-down defense (14.9), No. 9 in pass efficiency defense (97.8), No. 11 in turnovers gained (25), No. 12 in third-down defense (32.3%), No. 13 in INTs (14) and No. 18 in pass defense (178.4).
The Real McCoy
A frontrunner for several awards, DT Gerald McCoy, still a junior, is the most experienced player on the defense with 37 career starts. He has been a regular target of double-team blocking this season ...
• McCoy is second on the team with 13.5 TFL (No. 15 nationally). He has made 31 or 42% of his 72 career stops behind the line of scrimmage.
• McCoy has 37th consecutive starts to tie with Scott Evans (1987-90) for the longest string by an OU interior defensive lineman. The all-time record for consecutive starts is 44 by RB Quentin Griffin (1999-2002).
Sooner Awards: Gerald McCoy
The Real Beal
DE Jeremy Beal has 16.0 tackles for loss (No. 10 nationally) and 11.0 sacks (No. 6 nationally) ...
• His 11 sacks are tied with Cedric Jones (1995) for No. 4 in OU history. The school record of 14 held jointly by Martin Chase (1997) and Cedric Jones (1994).
• He had a career-high 12 tackles vs. Texas.
• He is the only player in school history to log two, three-sacks games in the same season (Tulsa, Miami).
• With 20.5 career sacks, he is tied for No. 6 in OU history with Aubrey Beavers (1990-93).
Sooner Awards: Jeremy Beal
Weak Freak
WLB Travis Lewis led Oklahoma last season with 144 tackles (No. 4 nationally and a freshman school record, Brian Bosworth's mark of 133).
• He leads again this season with 85. Lewis averages 8.5 tackles per game, down from last season's 10.3, but it should also be noted that OU opponents are running five fewer plays per game this season than last.
• Lewis has four double-digit tackle games this season and 11 in his 24 career games.
• The sophomore is at 229 career tackles. Daryl Hunt owns the school record of 530. To crack the top 10, Lewis would have to eclipse Lee Roy Selmon's total of 335.
Interceptions in Bunches
Oklahoma has 14 interceptions this season. The best total of the 11-year Stoops era is 24 in 2002. OU is averaging 12.6 yards per return.
• OU has multiple interceptions in five games (season-high three at Kansas) and at least one in eight games.
• CB Brian Jackson's streak of interceptions in consecutive games ended at four at Kansas. It marked only the second time in school history that a player had an interception in four straight games (modern era), the first by a cornerback. Scott Case, a safety, did it in 1983.
Defensive Miscellany
• Oklahoma has 25 takeaways. The team converted 14 of those into scores amounting to 90 points.
• The OU defense has scored in each of Bob Stoops' 11 seasons. The only position that has not scored a touchdown during that time is defensive tackle.
• OU set a school record with 17 TFL vs. Idaho State.
• Oklahoma limited Idaho State to -22 yards on 32 rushing attempts. That was the second-best performance under Bob Stoops. The '06 team limited Baylor to -48 (20 attempts). In the opener, BYU rushed 33 times for 28 yards. Baylor had 17 rushes for 6 yards.
• OU held Nebraska to 39 passing yards, the lowest total of the season. The lowest passing total vs. a Stoops team was 13 yards by Arkansas in the 2002 Cotton Bowl.
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About the Sooner Special Teams |
Oklahoma's special teams under Bob Stoops ...
• There have been 26 special teams touchdowns, including 20 in the last 75 regular season games. Those 20 came via five different kinds of plays -- 11 punt returns, two faked field goals, two blocked punts, four kickoff returns and a faked punt. Special teams also own one safety in that span.
• OU has returned eight kickoffs and 15 punts for TDs.
• The Sooners have blocked 24 kicks.
Many Happy Returns
Information on returns during the Stoops era ...
• Kickoff Returns --93 returns of 25 yards+ with eight TD.
• Punt Returns -- 57 ret., of 15+ with 15 touchdowns.
• Interception Returns -- 80 ret., of 10+ yards with 21 TD.
• Fumble Returns -- six returns of 15+ yards with 8 TD.
Getting His "Way" at Punter
Tress Way is averaging 44.0 yards on 45 punts with 11 downed inside the 20 and 14 of 50+ yards ...
• His ranks No. 12 nationally in punting average.
• The best punting average achieved in Bob Stoops' tenure at Oklahoma was 42.8 yards in 2006. Way's current average would rank No. 2 to Jack Jacobs, who averaged 47.8 on 40 punts in 1940.
• Way had a 71-yard punt at Miami, the longest by a Sooner since Mike Cohen's 72-yarder in 2006.
• The second-team punter is WR Cameron Kenney. At Garden City (Kan.) CC last season, Kenney averaged 47.0 yards. He also converted 11-of-13 PATs and 8-of-9 FGs, (makes from 40, 41, 52 yards). OU has not a position player in a kicking role since DB/P Darrol Ray in 1978.
Potent Punt Return Tandem
Ryan Broyles and Dominique Franks are the first two OU punt returners to log 100-yard games in the same year.
• Franks had a 30+ yard punt return in three straight. He inherited the role after Ryan Broyles suffered a shoulder injury against Miami.
• Broyles is No. 16 at 13.8. OU's team rank is No. 10 (14.7). Franks is averaging 17.0 ypr, but doesn't have enough attempts to be included in the NCAA stats.
• Franks had four returns for 100 total yards against Baylor, the first 100-yard punt return game by a Sooner since 2003 when All-America return specialist Antonio Perkins accomplished the feat against Missouri. Broyles then went for 102 on six returns at Nebraska.
Whitson Holding Steady
WR Carter Whitson is in his second year as holder. A QB for part of his HS career, Whitson is the first to serve in that role for back-to-back seasons during Stoops' tenure.
• Whitson had a two-yard rush on a faked field goal at Miami. The play resulted in a first down and kept alive a drive that later yielded a field goal.
got it covered
• Oklahoma ranks No. 2 nationally in punt coverage. Opponents have returned 13 punts for a total of 16 yards. Tress Way has punted 45 times for the Sooners. He has nine touchbacks and six fair catches.
• Last season, OU opponents returned four kickoffs for TDs and averaged 23.8 per return. This year, there has been one TD and the return average is down to 21.0.
Kick It
Jimmy Stevens was OU's kicker for placements through the first six games and was then replaced by Tress Way. Walk-on Patrick O'Hara saw his first action vs. A&M ...
• Way is 1-of-6, but his misses include attempts from 54, 46, 45 and 42 yards. He got his first start against Kansas and has made all 11 of his PAT tries.
• Stevens is 11-of-13 on field goals this season with the misses coming from 40 and 45 yards. He has made 27-of-29 PATs.
• Stevens tied the school record for field goals made when he went 4-of-4 against Baylor.
• O'Hara has made his only field goal attempts (26 yards) and both PAT tries. O'Hara, a transfer from Washburn University (D-II school in Topeka, Kan.) had never played in a football game until he kicked against Texas A&M. He has played several years of competitive soccer.
• Matthew Moreland, who handled kickoffs last season, is in that role again this season. Way is Moreland's back-up.
Right Back at Ya
The Sooners have three blocked kicks this year, a punt against Idaho State and two PATs against Kansas State. Marcus Trice got the punt, while Adrian Taylor and Auston English batted down the PATs.
Oklahoma Press Conference - 9/9/25
Tuesday, September 09
Sooner Sports Talk - 9/8/25
Monday, September 08
Sooner Football With Brent Venables - 9/7/25
Sunday, September 07
FB Highlights: OU 24, Michigan 13
Saturday, September 06
