OU, K-State Collide in Top-10 Showdown

NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma looks to rebound from its first loss of the season when it visits undefeated Kansas State this Saturday. The Sooners dropped a 41-38 home decision to Texas Tech, while the Wildcats rolled over in-state rival Kansas, 59-21, at Lawrence.

Saturday's game will kick at 2:30 p.m. CT and will be televised nationally by ESPN. View Sooner Gameday Central and our weekly Sooner Fan FAQ for complete details for fans attending the game and broadcast information for fans following the Sooners around the world.

THE SERIES
Oklahoma leads the series, 70-17-4, including a 34-10 advantage in games played at Manhattan. The Sooners own a four-game winning streak in the series, which includes two games at Manhattan. The most recent meeting was in 2009 when the Sooners prevailed, 42-30. This marks the eighth time that the two teams will meet while both are nationally ranked. The Wildcats have won four of those.

THE COACHES
Oklahoma: Bob Stoops (Iowa `83) is 135-32 in his 13th season. He is 88-20 vs. the Big 12 including a 7-1 record in the Big 12 title game, 47-12 vs. non-conference opponents, 75-3 at home, 37-16 on the road and 23-13 on neutral fields. He is 7-1 against Kansas State.
Kansas State: Bill Snyder (William Jewell '63) is 156-80-1 in this 19th season with the Wildcats.

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THE PROGRAM

Oklahoma's all-time record stands at 817-305-53 in 117 seasons. Since WWII, OU leads the nation with 578 victories.

The Sooners have captured seven national championships (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000).

OU has 44 bowl appearances (No. 7 nationally) with 26 bowl victories (No. 4 nationally).

OU has 43 conference championships, including seven Big 12 titles overall (no other school has more than three)

OU has 152 All-Americans and five Heisman winners. Sooners have also won the Bednarik (1), Butkus (4), Camp (4), Lombardi (3), Maxwell (2), Nagurski (2), O'Brien (3), Outland (5), Tatupu (1), Thorpe (3) and Unitas (1) Awards.

OU leads the nation with 32 seasons in which the program has won 10 or more games.

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OPPONENT: KANSAS STATE
Surprising Kansas State returns home after posting back-to-back road victories over Texas Tech and Kansas.

The Wildcats are led on offense by quarterback Colin Klein, who is the team's leading rusher at 95.7 yards and passer at 133.4 yards per game.

KSU's top tackler is linebacker Arthur Brown at 53, including 29 that are unassisted. DB Nigel Malone has four interceptions on the season with 35 yards in returns.

TIES WITH K-STATE

OU Head Coach Bob Stoops was on the Kansas State staff from 1989-95. He began as the defensive backs coach and eventually rose to co-defensive coordinator.

OU Associate Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator Brent Venables played at Kansas State. The Salina, Kan., native was a linebacker on the 1991 and 1992. He then served as a graduate assistant coach on the KSU staff from 1993-95, before moving to full-time status from 1996-98.

There are seven Kansans on the OU roster: QB Blake Bell and LB Jaydan Bird (Wichita), DE Geneo Grissom (Hutchinson), DT Jordan Phillips (Towanda), FB Marshall Musil (La Crosse), Justin McCay (Shawnee Mission) and K Patrick O'Hara (Topeka).

Current OU Head Men's Basketball Coach Lon Kruger is a Kansas State graduate ('75) as are two of his staff members, Steve Henson ('89) and Mike Shepherd ('92).

LAST WEEK
Oklahoma saw its 39-game home winning streak snapped last Saturday in a 41-38 loss to Texas Tech ...

The Sooners trailed 31-7 in the third quarter before rallying. They never got closer than the final margin.

OU was missing four starters with injuries. The Sooners were missing CB Jamell Fleming, DT Casey Walker, LB Tom Wort and leading rusher Dominique Whaley.

Roy Finch, rushed 13 times for a career-high 93 yards. He had for 238 all-purpose yards.

Landry Jones completed 30-of-55 passes for 412 yards and five touchdowns. He was intercepted once.

Kenny Stills led the receiving corps with eight catches for 135 yards and two TDs, including one for 58 yards.

Aaron Colvin led the Oklahoma defense with a career-high 13 tackles. LB Travis Lewis added 11.

Texas Tech threw for 441 yards and rushed for another 120. Three of Alex Torres' four receptions went for TDs.

Recap: Texas Tech 41, Oklahoma 38

OU: NCAA RECORD BOOK
Ryan Broyles has set the NCAA career receptions record. Here's a look at other Sooners in the NCAA record book ...
TD passes by a freshman: 36, Sam Bradford, 2007
TD passes by a soph.: 50, Sam Bradford, 2008
TD passes, first 2 seasons: 86, Sam Bradford
Career Pass Efficiency: 175.6, Sam Bradford, 2007-09
Comp. % by a Freshman: 69.5, Sam Bradford, 2007
Highest %, of TD passes career: 9.9, S. Bradford, 2007-09
Yards/Play Career: 8.70—Sam Bradford, 2007-09
Rush Att., Freshman: 339, Adrian Peterson, 2005
Rush Yds, Freshman: 1,925, Adrian Peterson, 2005
100 Yd Rush Games, Freshman: 11, A. Peterson, 2005
Consec 100 Yd Rush Game, Fr.: 9 A. Peterson, 2005
TD by Freshman in 1st Game: 5, DeMarco Murray, 2007
Punt Ret. Yds, game: 277, Antonio Perkins, 2003 (UCLA)
Punt Ret. TD, game: 3, Antonio Perkins, 2003 UCLA
Punt Ret. TD, career: 8, Antonio Perkins, 2001-04
Punt Ret. Avg., career: 23.6, Jack Mitchell, 1946-48

MISCELLANY
Among active FBS coaches with at least 100 victories, Bob Stoops has the best winning percentage at .808.
OU's defense has produced eight sacks over the last two games, while the offense has surrendered none.
Since finishing with a +4 in turnover margin vs. Texas (five gained, one lost), Oklahoma is -5 over the last two games with three at Kansas and two against Texas Tech.
Oklahoma has converted its last thee fourth-down tries.
OU has the same or fewer penalties than the opponent in five of seven games.
The Sooners have 16 three-and-outs this year, (high of six against Texas Tech) while their opponents have 32 (8, Ball State and Kansas).

MARQUEE GAMES AWAIT
Over the length of Bob Stoops' tenure at OU, it has been the norm for the Sooners to feature at least one marquee foe among their non-conference schedule of games. Here's a look at those contests in the upcoming seasons ...
Home vs. Notre Dame (2012), at Notre Dame (2013).
Home vs. Tennessee (2014), at Tennessee (2015).
Home vs. Ohio State (2016), at Ohio State (2017)
Home vs. LSU in 2018 and 2019.
Under Bob Stoops, OU has already played Florida State (twice), Cincinnati (twice), Louisville, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Alabama (twice), UCLA (twice), Oregon (twice), Washington (twice), South Florida, BYU and Miami (Fla.) (twice) in regular season contests.
Seven of those were played on the road and one on a neutral field. The Sooners are 14-5 in those games.
Oklahoma Future Schedules

RECORD-SETTING ATTENDANCE
Oklahoma has drawn 6,367,690 fans for Bob Stoops' 77 home games (started in 1999) and all have been sold out.
The Sooners are 75-3 on Owen Field under Stoops.
The current string of sellouts is the longest in school history, eclipsing a mark of 69 from 1971-84.
The top 10 seasons for attendance at Oklahoma during Stoops' tenure as head coach.
The largest OU home crowd was 85,646, for the 2008 Texas Tech game.
The 85,620 on hand for this year's Tulsa game represented the largest season-opening crowd ever at Oklahoma.
OU has exceeded the seating capacity of 82,112 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 57 straight games.
Oklahoma has played before sellout crowds in 131 of the 167 games (78 home, 28 away, 16 neutral) since Stoops became the head coach. During that time, a total of 12,034,817 (average of 72,064) have watched the Sooners.
Oklahoma Sets Attendance Records at Memorial Stadium

REMEMBERING AUSTIN BOX
LB Austin Box passed away in May. The Enid native would have been a senior on this team. To honor his memory, the Sooners keep his locker intact, leave a space for him during stretching drills and wear a helmet decal. In addition, a designated defensive player wears Box's No. 12 in each game. That assignment is made each Friday. Landry Jones wears No. 12 on offense. Wearing No. 12 on defense vs. Tulsa - Tom Wort; vs. Florida State - Frank Alexander; vs. Missouri - Javon Harris; vs. Ball State - Corey Nelson; vs. Texas - Travis Lewis; vs. Kansas - Aaron Colvin; vs. Texas Tech - Ronnell Lewis.

OFFENSE

Under Bob Stoops, OU has produced career leaders in passing, receiving and all-purpose yards, four top 10 career rushers and season record holders in rushing, passing and receiving yards.

Stoops-led Sooner teams have set 47 offensive school records. Those offenses have 171 touchdowns of 25 or more yards and 334 scoring drives of two minutes or less.

OU has scored in 169 consecutive games since 11/7/98.

OU rushed for 200 yards 48 times under Stoops.

Oklahoma is the highest scoring college program in history. In 1,220 games, the Sooners have scored 31,608 points. Michigan is next at 30,528 points in 1,250 games.

KEEPING UP WITH JONES
QB Landry Jones has moved from No. 3 to No. 1 on the school's career passing yards list (see chart). He jumped over a pair of Heisman winners to claim the spot.

In the Missouri game, he set the OU record with his 15th career 300-yard passing game (now 19). He also holds the school mark with seven, 400-yard games.

Among active players, Jones is No. 2 in career passing yards per game (315.4), No. 3 in completions (867), No. 5 in yards (10,505), No. 4 in touchdown passes (85), No. 6 in total offense (10,286) and No. 5 in touchdowns responsible for (88).

Has a completion rate of 60% in every game but one this season and has been over 350 yards in all but one.

He has 19 TD throws over the last five games.

Jones went over 10,000 career passing yards and tossed his 80th career touchdown pass in the win at Kansas. He needs four to break Sam Bradford's OU career record.

THE RECORD BOOK BROYLES
Ryan Broyles has become the NCAA's career leader in receptions and has taken the Big 12 records for career receptions and career touchdown receptions ...

Broyles set the NCAA career receptions record at Kansas (2nd qtr.) on a 57-yard touchdown catch. On that same play, he set the Big 12 record for career TD catches. He now has 333 receptions and 44 touchdown grabs.

He also is the career leader among the NCAA's active players in TD receptions (44), receiving yards (4,328) and punt return yards (1,151). He's No. 2 on the active TDs list at 47 (one behind Oregon's LeMichael James).

With 44 career TD catches, he is tied for No. 4 on the NCAA list behind Rice's Jarrett Dillard (60), La. Tech's Troy Edwards (50) and Marshall's Darius Watts (47). He is already has the highest total by any player at a BCS school.

Broyles is No. 1 in Big 12 career receptions, eclipsing the previous mark of 303 by Texas Tech's Taurean Henderson (2002-05). He's also No. 2 in yards with 4,328, 86 away from No. 1, a spot currently held by Rashaun Woods.

Has 100+ yards receiving in 18 of the last 24 games and a TD grab in 16 of the last 23.

Has at least one catch in 46 straight games, the second-longest string nationally (Houston's Tyron Carrier, 47).

NOW THAT'S A RECEIVING CORPS
Oklahoma has six different players with at least 10 receptions and an average of more than 10.0 yards per catch ...

Fourteen different Sooners have a reception this season. That's the total number that had catches over last year's 14-game schedule. Eleven have at least five grabs.

Kenny Stills missed the Tulsa (coaches' decision) and Missouri (injury) games. In the other five games, he amassed 35 grabs for 465 yards and seven touchdowns. At Florida State, his seven catches went for a career-high 125 yards, and his acrobatic TD catch with 7:00 left broke a 13-13 tie and gave OU a lead it did not relinquish. He went over 1,000 career receiving yards in the Texas game and now has 1,251.

After posting no catches in the first two games, Jaz Reynolds, who is up 30 pounds since his arrival on campus, now has 23 for 452 yards and two TDs. His 19.7 yards per catch average leads the team.

ONE WHALEY OF A RUNNING GAME
Oklahoma's leading rusher is walk-on junior Dominique Whaley, a transfer from Langston (Okla.) University.

In the opener against Tulsa, he rushed 18 times for 131 yards and four touchdowns. He fell just one TD shy of tying the NCAA mark for most in a debut game. That record is held by former Sooner DeMarco Murray at five.

It is believed the previous record by a walk-on at OU was 423 yards Jim Culbreath in 1975. Whaley enters this week's game with 627.

Whaley attended Lawton (Okla.) MacArthur High School, but as an Army “brat” lived in several places, including Germany, before that time.

AND...

Oklahoma has given up only three sacks and just 31 tackles for loss. The Sooners have absorbed 80 negative yards for an average of just 11.4 per game. OU opponents average 40.0 negative yards per game.

Oklahoma, somewhat a victim of its own efficiency, ranks No. 66 nationally in time of possession. With quick strikes and three defensive TDs, the Sooners had a season-low 22:06 against Texas, a deficit of 13:48. Only three times in seven games has OU exceeded its opponent in possession time.

DEFENSE

OU has forced at least one turnover in 146 of Stoops' 167 games and has at least one interception in 108 of the last 146 with multiple picks in 67 of the last 118 outings.

Oklahoma has 13 shutouts under its current head coach. Opponents failed to score more than seven points in 35 games and scored less than 14 in 65 games.

LEWIS ASCENDS OU TACKLE LIST

With his 413 career tackles (the second-highest total by a Bob Stoops player at OU), senior WLB Travis Lewis has cracked the career top 10 tackle list at OU. The record is held by the late Daryl Hunt at 530. Lewis, now at No. 6 (tied with Brian Bosworth), trails No. 5 Rod Shoate by 13. He needs 19 tackles to move ahead of Rocky Calmus in the Stoops era.

Has 413 career stops is the third-best total among active players nationally.

Lewis, who suffered a broken bone in the big toe of his left foot in preseason drills, missed the opener vs. Tulsa.

Lewis has led Oklahoma in tackles in each of his first three seasons and has become only the sixth player in school history to lead the team in three consecutive years. The last to do it was Rocky Calmus, the Butkus Award winner in his senior campaign, from 1999-01. No player has had the lead in four seasons. With 51 tackles, Lewis is the 2011 team leader by four.

As a freshman in 2007, Lewis had 144 tackles to break Brian Bosworth's OU freshman record of 133.

Lewis has double-digit tackle totals in 16 of his 47 career games.

He registered his eighth career interception against Nebraska in last season's Big 12 Championship Game. That equals the most by a linebacker in Sooner history. He has 156 career return yards on those picks, an average of 19.5 per return. Lewis had three takeaways in that game against the Cornhuskers including two fumble recoveries.

FRANK TALK
DE Frank Alexander is having a dominant season. The senior has 11.5 tackles for loss including 7.5 sacks thus far. He has been credited with at least half a sack in five of the seven games. In addition, Alexander has four break-ups, an interception, a forced fumble, a recovered fumble and six hurries.

In the opener against Tulsa, Alexander had two passes broken up and an interception, which he returned 27 yards. For the season, he has four break-ups, including one against Ball State that was picked off by Tony Jefferson.

Against Texas, he had six tackles, three sacks for -26 yards, four tackles for 30 yards in losses, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a break-up. He was named the Walter Camp Foundation's Defensive Player of the Week.

42 DEFENSIVE TDS IN STOOPS ERA
With a school-record three defensive touchdowns against Texas, Oklahoma now has 42 in Bob Stoops 12+ seasons.

Thirteen of those touchdowns came via a fumble return.

The defense has scored a touchdown in each of Stoops' 13 seasons, and in nearly one-fourth of the games he has coached at OU (39 of 166 games for 23%). That's an average of one every 4.3 games.

RIP AND RUN
Oklahoma has 276 return yards this season on nine interceptions (179) and six fumbles (97). That's an average of 18.4 yards per return.

Oklahoma has nine interceptions this season for a whopping 179 yards in returns. That's an average of 19.9 yards per return. The top interception return average of the Bob Stoops era was 21.1 n 2002 when the Sooners logged 516 yards on 24 picks.

PAPER OR PLASTIC?
Oklahoma has 27 sacks, including eight against Texas, through seven games ...

Eleven players have been credited with at least half a sack this season.

The 27 sacks have gone for 201 yards in losses , or an average of 7.4 per sack. The lowest total in a game so far this season was two against Missouri.

The Sooners have 29 over their last five games away from Norman (seven vs. Nebraska in 2010 Big 12 Championship game, three vs. UConn in Fiesta Bowl, six at Florida State, eight vs. Texas and five at Kansas.).

The Sooners are averaging 8.0 tackles for loss per game.

THE END(S) OF THE LINE
During portions of this season, Oklahoma played a front four comprised entirely of defensive ends. Frank Alexander lined up at a tackle, David King at noseguard and Ronnell Lewis and R.J. Washington at the end spots.

OU IMPROVES IN PASS-HAPPY ERA
Despite this pass-happy era, only once under Bob Stoops has OU allowed a season completion rate of 60% or higher. The 2010 finished at just 54.6%.

This season, Sooner opponents are completing just 54.0% of their passes (135-of-250).

Only one opponent threw for 300 yards in the first seven games this season.

Last season, six Sooner opponents failed to complete 50 percent of their passes, including three of the last five (Texas Tech, Nebraska and Connecticut). With 71 PBU, the Sooners had one of their best seasons in that category. Over the previous seven seasons, the best total at Oklahoma had been 61 (twice). The school record was set in 2000 with an incredible 110. The 2009 team had just 45. This team is running ahead of last year's pace with 37 or 5.3 per game.

SPECIAL TEAMS

Oklahoma's special teams under Bob Stoops ...

There have been 27 special teams touchdowns, including 21 in the last 82 regular season games. Those 21 came via five different kinds of plays -- 12 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.

Oklahoma has returned eight kickoffs and 16 punts for touchdowns.

The Sooners have blocked 24 kicks.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS
Information on returns during the Stoops era ...

Kickoff Returns --99 returns of 25 yards or more with eight touchdowns.

Punt Returns -- 65 returns of 15 or more yards with 16 touchdowns.

Interception Returns -- 87 returns of 10 or more yards with 24 touchdowns.

Fumble Returns -- eight returns of 15 or more yards with 12 touchdowns.

FOOT FACTS
Oklahoma has used two kickers this season for placements with both Jimmy Stevens and Michael Hunnicutt handling the role. Hunnicutt seems to have settled into the duty for now. Combined, the two are 15-of-18 on field goal attempts...

Over the last two seasons, Oklahoma has made 38-of-47 field goals (81%).

With Stevens nursing a muscle pull, Hunnicutt moved into the starting role in the win over Missouri. He made his lone field goal try (26 yards) and all five PATs. Hunnicutt had previously made a 27-yard FG against Tulsa.

Hunnicutt remained in the kicking role for the Ball State game and scored 14 points. He was perfect on 8 PAT tries and made 2-of-3 field goals with makes from 44 and 39 yards and a miss from 30.

Against Texas, Hunnicutt made both field goal attempts (26, 24) and all seven PATs. He also tied the OU kick scoring record at 17 (4 FGs, 5 PATs).

At Kansas, Hunnicutt tied the school record for field goals in a game by making all four attempts.

Stevens has made 16 of his last 17 field goals, all over his last five games played.

At Oklahoma, Stevens ranks No. 6 all-time with 42 field goals made and No. 2 with 180 points after touchdown. He's No. 6 in kick scoring at 306.

Patrick O'Hara has settled into the kickoff role for the Sooners. He has 55 thus far with seven touchbacks. He averages 65.0 yards per kickoff and opponents are averaging 20.7 yards per return.

WAY GOOD AT PUNTER

Way has 49 punts of 50+ yards in his career. Jeff Ferguson (1998-01), set that OU record with 52

Way is No. 9 among active NCAA punters with a career average of 44.1. He maintains that average on more kicks than any of the players ahead of him. He has 165.

This season, Way has played a central role in field position with 19 of 28 punts downed inside the 20. He is the only punter in the nation with more than 15 inside the 20 and yet no touchbacks.

In 2010, P Tress Way had 19 boots of 50+ yards with 18 inside the 20 and an average of 44.0 yards on 73 kicks. His average ranked No. 20 nationally, but he had more attempts than anyone ahead of him on that list.

FINCH ENLIVENS RETURN GAME
RB Roy Finch is one of six Sooners who have returned a kickoff this year, but his role has increased lately. Against Texas Tech, he brought back four for 102 yards, an average of 25.5 per return. His long was 31. Trey Franks has the longest return of the year at 40 yards also against Tech.

BROYLES CAN BE LETHAL
PR Ryan Broyles has more punt returns (104), more average returns per game (2.3) and more total punt return yards (1,151) than any other active players in NCAA FBS play.

He ranks No. 8 among active NCAA punt returners with an average of 11.1 yards per return.

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