Easy Pick: Perine Big 12 Player of the Week

NORMAN -- The Big 12 Conference announced on Monday that Oklahoma freshman running back Samaje Perine has been named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week after he set the FBS single-game rushing yardage record with a 427-yard, five-touchdown performance in a 44-7 victory vs. Kansas.

The Pflugerville, Texas, native has rushed for 640 yards over the past two weeks, the best total in consecutive games in Oklahoma history. He's also scored eight rushing touchdowns over that two-game stretch. Perine has earned Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors three times this season after producing the only three 200-yard rushing efforts in the Big 12 Conference this season. In addition to a 213-yard, three-TD performance at Texas Tech, he had a 242-yard, four-touchdown performance at West Virginia. Only Billy Sims has produced more 200-yard games in a single season for the Sooners, registering four such games in 1978.

Perine has 1,428 rushing yards on the season, a figure that already ranks as the eighth-best seasonal mark in OU history with two games yet to play. The only freshman to post more rushing yards in a single campaign was Adrian Peterson, who set the FBS freshman mark with 1,925 yards in 2004. Perine's 19 rushing touchdowns are the most-ever by a Big 12 freshman and are only four shy of the Oklahoma single-season record of 23 established by Sims in 1978.

2014 OU Big 12 Players of the Week
Offense	RB Samaje Perine	at WVU (9/20)
Special Teams	RB Alex Ross	at WVU (9/20)
Defense	CB Zack Sanchez	vs. Texas (10/11)
Offense	QB Trevor Knight	at Iowa State (11/1)
Offense	RB Samaje Perine	at Texas Tech (11/15)
Offense	RB Samaje Perine	vs. Kansas (11/22)

FBS Record Book – Most Rushing Yards, Game
Yards	Player	Team	Opponent	Date
1. 427	Samaje Perine	Oklahoma	Kansas	11/22/14
2. 408	Melvin Gordon	Wisconsin	Nebraska	11/15/14
3. 406	LaDanian Tomlinson	TCU	UTEP	11/20/99

Perine's Record-Setting Game By the Numbers
446	Yards of total offense - Oklahoma record, ranks second in Big 12 history and fifth in FBS history
427	FBS single-game rushing record
222	Rushing yards in first half – Oklahoma record for any half
205	Rushing yards in second half – First FBS player with 200 rushing yards in both halves of a single game
30	Points – Tied with four others as second-best single-game total in Oklahoma history
5	Rushing TDs – Became only the fifth Oklahoma player with five or more in a single game

Oklahoma Record Book – Most Rushing Yards, Game
Yards	Player	Opponent	Date
1. 427	Samaje Perine	Kansas	11/22/14
2. 294	Greg Pruitt	at Kansas State	10/23/71
3. 291	De'Mond Parker	Texas	10/11/97

Oklahoma Record Book – Most Rushing Yards, Season
Yards	Player	Class	Year	Atts.	Avg.	TDs
1. 1,925	Adrian Peterson	Fr.	2004	339	5.70	15
2. 1,896	Billy Sims	Jr.	1978	256	7.41	22
3. 1,884	Quentin Griffin	Sr.	2002	287	6.56	15
4. 1,760	Greg Pruitt	Jr.	1971	196	8.98	18
5. 1,670	Billy Sims	Sr.	1979	248	6.73	23
6. 1,649	Steve Owens	Jr.	1968	393	4.20	21
7. 1,523	Steve Owens	Sr.	1969	358	4.25	23
8. 1,523	Samaje Perine	Fr.	2014	214	6.67	19

Additional Honors for Perine This Week

• Walter Camp Football Foundation National Offensive Player of the Week
• College Football Performance Awards
   - National Performer of the Week
   - National Running Back of the Week
   - National All-Purpose Player of the Week