Game Primer: OU vs. Texas Tech

Saturday, October 30

Norman

2:30 PM

University of Oklahoma

Texas Tech

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October 29, 2021 | Football

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Saturday, Oct. 30 / 2:30 p.m. CT / Owen Field

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OPENING KICK

• No. 4/4 Oklahoma (8-0, 5-0 Big 12) goes for its 10th straight win over Texas Tech (5-3, 2-3) and 17th consecutive victory overall when it hosts the Red Raiders on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. CT at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The game will be televised by ABC with Dave Pasch, Dusty Dvoracek and Tom Luginbill announcing.

• OU is one of nine undefeated teams this season and is the only Power Five squad with an 8-0 record.

• The Sooners' 16-game winning streak is the seventh longest in program history and their longest since winning 20 straight over the 2000 and '01 seasons. It is also the longest active streak in the country, with only one other Power Five program (Georgia at 11) owning a streak longer than eight games. OU's last loss came on Oct. 3, 2020, at Iowa State.

• Oklahoma is off to the 18th 8-0 start in program history but first since 2004 when it won its first 12 games under head coach Bob Stoops.

• OU has registered winning streaks of at least seven games in a school-record seven straight seasons. The previous program record for seven-game winning streaks was six consecutive campaigns (1953-58) under Bud Wilkinson. Since 1980, only Boise State (11 straight seasons; 2002-12) and Alabama (10 straight seasons; 2011-20) have also posted winning streaks of at least seven games in seven consecutive years.

• Oklahoma owns a 22-6 record against Texas Tech (12-2 in Norman) and has won each of the last nine games in the series. OU is averaging 51.9 points, 599.7 yards and 285.4 rushing yards per contest during the streak.

• The Sooners have scored at least 38 points in each of their last 11 games against the Red Raiders. It is tied for the longest streak against an opponent in school history (OU also scored at least 38 points in 11 straight games against Kingfisher College from 1908 through 1919).

• Oklahoma is 27-2 (.931) in home games under Lincoln Riley and the average score in those contests has been 47-22. OU's 177 scrimmage TDs at home since the start of the 2017 season are one off the national lead (Alabama has 178 in one more game) and the Sooners rank first among Power Five programs with their 6.0 yards per rush.

• OU has won as many Big 12 titles the last six seasons (six) as it has lost games against Big 12 opponents (57-6 record; includes four Big 12 Championship games).

• Come Saturday, Oklahoma will have been Big 12 champion for 2,164 consecutive days.

• OU is 151-31 (.830) in regular season Big 12 play since the start of the 2000 season. That's 29 more wins than the program with the next most victories during that period (Texas; 122-59) and 48 more than the program with the third most (Oklahoma State; 103-79).

KEY STORYLINES

• Since Lincoln Riley, a 2006 Texas Tech graduate, arrived at Oklahoma as offensive coordinator in advance of the 2015 season, the Sooners are averaging 57.7 points and 662.3 yards in their six games against the Red Raiders. They have registered at least 559 yards in all six contests (617 in 2015, 854 in 2016, 617 in 2017, 683 in 2018, 644 in 2019 and 559 last year) and are averaging 8.7 yards per play. OU's 3,974 total yards in those contests equates to 2.26 miles.

• Since taking over quarterback responsibilities with 6:41 left in the second quarter vs. Texas two games ago, freshman Caleb Williams has completed 49 of 68 pass attempts (72.1%) for 685 yards and eight touchdowns against one interception (192.6 pass efficiency rating). He has also rushed 21 times for 224 yards (10.7 average) and TDs of 66, 41 and 40 yards in the three games.

• Oklahoma's rushing attack has been extremely effective the last three contests. After averaging 175.2 rushing yards per game and 4.6 yards per carry over its first five games, OU is averaging 263.0 yards per contest and 7.2 yards per carry over the last three outings. Redshirt junior Kennedy Brooks averaged 63.6 yards per game and 5.9 yards per rush over the first five games but over the last three is averaging 149.7 and 6.5 with five touchdowns. Brooks ran for over 1,000 yards each of his first two seasons and with 767 rushing yards so far this year (95.9 per game; 6.2 per carry) he is well on his way to that mark again. The only Sooners to ever record three 1,000-yard rushing seasons were De'Mond Parker (1996-98), Adrian Peterson (2004-06) and Samaje Perine (2014-16).

• The Sooners averaged 38.4 points per game, 433.4 yards per game and 6.3 yards per play over the season's first five contests. Over the last three outings they have posted respective averages of 47.3, 528.3 and 8.5. The 47.3 points per game the last three weeks are the third most nationally during the stretch, while OU's 7.2 yards per rush during the same span represents the country's second-highest average.

• Among teams with at least 30 red zone trips this season, OU ranks first nationally with its 97.8% score rate (44 scores on 45 trips). Thirty-four of its 44 red zone scores (77.3%) have been touchdowns. The 44 red zone scores are most in the country (next most is 39), as are the 34 red zone TDs. The Sooners have scored on each of their last 39 red zone trips.

• OU is tied for third nationally this season with its 12 forced fumbles and is tied for second with nine fumble recoveries. It had three forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries all of last season. Texas Tech has lost five fumbles this season (ranks 81st nationally).

• Three Sooners rank in the top six in the Big 12 in sacks this season. Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto is tied for third in the league with 5.0 sacks while defensive linemen Perrion Winfrey and Isaiah Thomas are tied for sixth with 4.5 each. OU recorded 13 sacks over the season's first three contests but has a total of seven over the last five games.

• Saturday's game will mark OU's ninth to start the season without a bye. That's the program's longest stretch at the beginning of a season since 1995 when it played 10 games before a week off.

10/16/2021 Oklahoma vs Texas football. Photo Ty Russell

RILEY FACES ALMA MATER

• Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley is a 2006 Texas Tech graduate. A walk-on quarterback for the Red Raiders during the spring and summer of 2003, Riley spent seven years (2003-09) on former head coach Mike Leach's TTU staff in the roles of student assistant/offense (2003-05), offensive assistant (2006), wide receivers coach (2007) and inside receivers coach (2008-09). He also served as Tech's interim offensive coordinator and play-caller for the 2010 Alamo Bowl, a 41-31 victory over Michigan State.

• OU co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh (2000-06), assistant head coach/passing game coordinator/outside receivers coach Dennis Simmons (2000-09) and director of sports performance for football Bennie Wylie (2003-09) also worked at Texas Tech while Riley was on staff.

LAST YEAR VS. TEXAS TECH

• Oklahoma gave up a touchdown on the game's opening drive but corrected itself quickly and never looked back in a 62-28 Halloween night win at Texas Tech last season. The Sooners scored touchdowns on six straight first-half possessions to build a 42-7 advantage and took a 48-14 lead to halftime. It was their most points in a half since scoring 49 in the opening 30 minutes vs. Nebraska in a 62-28 win in 2008. The 48 points were also OU's most ever in a half vs. Texas Tech.

• Running back Rhamondre Stevenson made a splash in his season debut, rushing for 87 yards and three touchdowns on 13 carries (6.7 avg.) en route to Big 12 Co-Offensive Player of the Week honors. It was his first career multiple-TD game and he became the first OU back to score three TDs since Kennedy Brooks in 2018. He scored on a six-yard rush on his first carry of the season in the first quarter and added a pair of one-yard runs, all in the first half. OU totaled then-season highs of 213 rushing yards and 5.5 yards per carry.

• In just over one half of work, Spencer Rattler completed 21 of 30 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns without an interception. His TD passes went to Jeremiah Hall (four yards) and Austin Stogner (27 yards) in the second quarter. Theo Wease caught five passes for a career-high 105 yards.

• The Sooners registered three takeaways (led to 17 points) and did not commit a turnover. Defensive back Tre Norwood, who made his first start since the 2018 season, intercepted two first-quarter passes, both leading to touchdowns. Defensive lineman Isaiah Thomas recovered a second-quarter fumble.

• OU logged two sacks (1.5 by Thomas and 0.5 by Nik Bonitto) and nine tackles for loss. Junior defensive end Ronnie Perkins made his season debut and finished with four tackles (all solo), a team-high 2.0 tackles for loss and a quarterback hurry.

• The Sooners finished with 559 yards of offense, snapping a streak of five straight games against Texas Tech in which they had registered over 600 yards.

HOME IS WHERE THE "W" IS

• Oklahoma has won three more Big 12 championships over the last 22 years (14) than it has lost home games. OU is 128-11 (.921) at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium since the start of the 1999 season. It is the best home winning percentage nationally over the last 23 seasons (Boise State is next at .915 and Ohio State third at .890). OU has outscored its opponents by an average of 43-17 in those games.

• The Sooners have posted 138 straight sellouts of originally scheduled home games dating back to the start of the 1999 season (Bob Stoops' first as head coach). Only Nebraska (FBS-record 379) has a longer current streak nationally.

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BONITTO, BRKIC NAMED MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICANS

• Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto and placekicker Gabe Brkic each earned midseason All-America honors from Sporting News and The Athletic last week. They were first-team selections by Sporting News and second-team picks by The Athletic.

• Bonitto, a redshirt junior, has racked up 26 tackles, a team-high-tying 8.5 tackles for loss and a team-high 5.0 sacks. His seven quarterback hurries are three more than the Sooner with the next-highest total and his two fumble recoveries are tied for fourth most in the country. Bonitto set a school record with his 70-yard fumble return at Kansas State.

• Also a redshirt junior, Brkic ranks second nationally with his 16 field goals and 2.0 field goals per game. He is 16 for 19 on the year (.842) and leads the country with his four makes from 50 yards or farther (on five attempts). Brkic, who is also 35 for 35 on PAT tries, leads the Big 12 and ranks third nationally with his 83 points.

DEFENSE PLAYS BIG HAND IN 16-GAME WINNING STREAK

• Oklahoma's defense has figured prominently in the program's 16-game winning streak that started on Oct. 10, 2020, against Texas. Here are some notes pertaining to the stretch:

• OU has held 13 of its last 16 opponents below a 50% third-down conversion rate and nine of the Sooners' last 13 opponents have failed to convert more than 33% of third downs. OU ranks seventh nationally during the time period with its 34.3 opponent third-down conversion rate. In fact, OU ranks eighth nationally in the category since the start of the 2019 season (defensive coordinator Alex Grinch's first year in Norman) with its 32.8% figure.

• The Sooners have totaled 51 sacks over their last 16 games to rank fourth nationally since Oct. 10, 2020. In the same time frame, OU has registered 115 tackles for loss for an average of 7.2 per game and a total of 482 lost yards.

• OU has registered at least one takeaway in 14 straight games and in 15 of the last 16. It is plus-13 in turnover margin (29 takeaways to 16 turnovers) during the 16-game winning streak.

• The Sooners have 18 interceptions over their last 16 games to rank eighth nationally since Oct. 10, 2020.

NOTING THE OFFENSE

• Oklahoma ranks eighth nationally with its 41.8 points per game and 17th with its 469.0 yards per game.

• OU's 2.0 punts per game are the fewest in the country. The Sooners did not punt against Tulane or Kansas State and punted just once vs. Western Carolina and Kansas.

• The Sooners have committed only eight turnovers through eight games and one of those was by the defense (fumble on a fumble return vs. TCU).

• Freshman quarterback Caleb Williams has completed 69.6% of his passes (55 of 79) for 787 yards and eight touchdowns with one interception (184.2 efficiency rating would lead Big 12 if he had enough attempts to qualify). He has also been highly effective with his feet, running for 285 yards and four scores on only 26 carries (11.0 yards per rush). He has four of OU's seven longest rushes of the season (66 yards for a TD vs. Texas is tied for team's longest, 59 vs. Western Carolina is fourth longest, 41 vs. TCU is sixth longest and 40 vs. Kansas is seventh longest).

• Despite not playing the last two-and-a-half games (nor in the second half against Western Carolina), redshirt sophomore quarterback Spencer Rattler ranks second in the Big 12 in completion percentage (74.3; ranks third nationally), third in completions (130), passing offense (228.5 ypg) and total offense (242.8 ypg) and fifth in passing touchdowns (10). He tied a school record for TD passes in a half with five vs. Western Carolina and has thrown at least one TD pass in 16 of his 17 career starts (OU is 15-2).

• Rattler has completed 45 of his last 56 pass attempts (80%).

• Receiver Marvin Mims ranks fourth on the squad in receptions (22) but leads the team with 470 receiving yards (next most is 294). Mims ranks eighth nationally and first in the Big 12 with his 21.4 yards per catch.

• Receiver Jadon Haselwood paces the Sooners with 30 catches (for 276 yards; 9.2 average) and six receiving touchdowns. He had one career receiving TD entering the season but has four over the last two weeks.

• Receivers Michael Woods II (25) and Mario Williams (24) rank second and third in receptions and both have two touchdown catches, as does Mims. Tight end/H-back Jeremiah Hall ranks second with four TD grabs.

• Haselwood, who missed all but three games last season due to injury, has made his first eight career starts this year. He was the consensus No. 1 national receiver in the 2019 recruiting class, while Williams was ESPN's No. 1 receiver in the 2021 class. Woods and Mims started the first seven contests this season but did not play in Saturday's win at Kansas.

• Redshirt junior Kennedy Brooks and junior Eric Gray have shared the vast majority of the rushing workload this season. Brooks leads the team in carries (123), rushing yards (767), rushing yards per game (95.9) and rushing touchdowns (nine). His 449 rushing yards over the last three weeks ranks as the third most nationally. Gray, a transfer from Tennessee, started OU's first five games and has rushed 62 times for 298 yards (4.8 per carry; 37.3 yards per game; one TD) and has 13 catches for 160 yards and a touchdown. Walk-ons Jaden Knowles and Todd Hudson earned carries against Western Carolina and each scored two TDs.

• Redshirt sophomore running back Marcus Major sat out each of OU's first five games this season but was deemed eligible by the NCAA the day before the Oct. 9 game against Texas. He made his season debut Oct. 16 vs. TCU but has not registered a carry or reception in his two games.

OU FOOT NOTES

• Redshirt junior kicker Gabe Brkic ranks second nationally this season with 16 field goals (on 19 attempts; .842) and is 4 for 5 on tries from over 50 yards. Brkic ranked third in the country last season by averaging 2.0 field goal makes per game and this year ranks third by averaging the same figure.

• The longest field goal made this season nationally is 56 yards and Brkic has two of the four makes from that distance. He is one off the national lead with his eight makes from 50-plus yards since the start of the 2020 season (LSU's Cade York has nine), while no other player has made more than five 50-yarders. Brkic's nine career makes from 50 or farther are the most in OU history (next highest total is four). He also sits atop the Sooners' career chart with 18 makes from at least 40 yards.

• Brkic, who was a 2020 first-team All-Big 12 selection (coaches and AP) and a Lou Groza Award semifinalist, is 53 for 62 (.855) on career field goal attempts. The OU career record for field goal percentage is .833 (75 for 90) by Michael Hunnicutt (2011-14). Brkic has also made all 137 of his PAT tries. Only Austin Seibert (162) has a longer streak of makes in school history.

• During Lincoln Riley's five-year head coaching career, Oklahoma ranks first in the Big 12 and fifth nationally with its 84.4% success rate on field goal attempts (92 for 109). Kansas State is the next best Big 12 school in the category during the span, ranking 16th at 79.6%.

• During the same period, the Sooners rank second nationally in PAT conversion percentage among teams with at least 150 attempts, converting 333 of 334 tries (99.7%). Only Virginia Tech (192 of 192) has a higher success rate.

• Redshirt senior punter Michael Turk transferred to OU from Arizona State in August and earned the starting job. The 2019 and '20 first-team All-Pac-12 selection averaged 46.2 yards per punt over the last two seasons and totaled 28 boots that went at least 50 yards. He has only punted 16 times this year (2.0 per game) and is averaging 52.4 yards per punt (has nine punts over 50 yards, including an 85-yarder vs. Texas which tied as the third longest in OU history). He also holds the best and third-best single-game punting averages in school history (min. three punts; 59.7 two games ago vs. TCU and 58.0 vs. Texas three games ago).

OU'S BIG 12 DOMINATION

• Oklahoma's win over Iowa State in the 2020 Big 12 Championship resulted in the Sooners' sixth straight Big 12 title and 14th since 2000 (no other program has won more than two during the span). For perspective, the two Power Five programs with the next most conference titles this millennium are Ohio State (11 in Big Ten) and Oregon (eight in Pac-10/Pac-12).

• The Sooners' 14 Big 12 titles are 11 more than the program with the next most. Texas has won three Big 12 championships and is followed by Baylor, Kansas State and Nebraska (two each), and Colorado, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas A&M (one each). Colorado and Nebraska left the Big 12 after the 2010 season and Texas A&M departed after the 2011 campaign.

• Since 2010, OU has won eight Big 12 titles and is followed by Baylor (two) and Kansas State, Oklahoma State and TCU (one each).

• Oklahoma is the only program to win at least three straight Big 12 titles, and it has done so twice (2006-08 and 2015-20). Baylor (2013-14) is the only other program to win two Big 12 championships in a row.

• At 11-1, the Sooners are the only program with a winning record in Big 12 Championship games. Texas has the next best mark at 3-3.

• Since Lincoln Riley came to Norman as offensive coordinator in 2015, OU has posted a 52-6 (.897) record in regular season Big 12 play. The next best mark during the period is 37-21 (.638) by Oklahoma State.

• Oklahoma and Clemson are each riding streaks of six outright conference championships. The last current Power Five program to win at least six straight outright league titles was OU when it claimed 12 Big Six/Seven crowns in a row under legendary Bud Wilkinson (1948-59).

• Every OU freshman class from 1999-2019 has won at least one Big 12 championship and all but the 2011 freshman class have won at least two. The 2015, 2016 and 2017 freshman classes each won four Big 12 titles.

• OU leads the nation with its 50 all-time conference titles. It is followed by Nebraska (46), Michigan (42), Ohio State (39) and USC (37).

YEAR THREE OF "SPEED D"

• Hired in January 2019, coordinator and safeties coach Alex Grinch, who was a 2019 Broyles Award semifinalist, has overseen major improvement on the defensive side of the ball in his three seasons in Norman.

• OU ranked third nationally last season in interceptions (16), fourth in opponent third-down conversion percentage (27.9), sixth in sacks per game (3.6), ninth in rushing defense (105.1 ypg) and passing defense efficiency rating (112.9), 16th in tackles for loss per game (7.5) and 29th in total defense (350.6 ypg) and scoring defense (21.7 ppg).

• Grinch's unit was particularly stingy down the stretch in 2020. After Nov. 1 (five games), OU led the nation in interceptions per game (2.2) and ranked second in sacks per game (4.0) and passing defense efficiency rating (94.5), fourth in opponent third-down conversion percentage (25.0), sixth in scoring defense (15.4 ppg), eighth in passing yards per attempt (5.4), ninth in opponent passing completion percentage (51.4), 14th in rushing yards per game (112.2) and 18th in rushing yards per carry (3.4).

• Oklahoma's 1.45 interceptions per game last season were its second most in the last 17 years (1.53 in 2015). The team's 16 interceptions were its most in a season since registering 20 in 2015 (13 games) and were three more than it registered over the 2018 (six) and 2019 (seven) seasons combined. And from the second quarter of the Dec. 5 game vs. Baylor through the first quarter of the Dec. 30 Cotton Bowl vs. Florida, the Sooners registered eight interceptions over an eight-quarter stretch (two vs. Baylor, three vs. Iowa State and three vs. Florida).

• In 33 games under Grinch, OU has allowed only five opponent wide receivers to register at least 100 receiving yards in a contest.

• Over OU's last 21 contests, only three running backs have rushed for 100 yards in a game against the Sooners (Iowa State's Breece Hall [139 yards] did it in the third game of last season while Texas' Bijan Robinson [137] and Kansas' Devin Neal [100] did it this season). OU ranks 24th nationally by permitting just 3.3 yards per carry this season.

• Redshirt senior defensive lineman Isaiah Thomas has recorded at least half a tackle for loss in 17 of the last 19 games (14-game streak was snapped Sept. 25 vs. West Virginia). Since the start of the 2020 season, Thomas has OU highs of 19.5 tackles for loss and 13.0 sacks (tied with Nik Bonitto). He has 7.5 TFLs (4.5 sacks) and two forced fumbles this year.

OFFENSE HAS ROLLED UNDER RILEY

• Oklahoma owns the nation's most productive offense since the start of the 2015 season, which was Lincoln Riley's first year as OU's offensive coordinator. Riley still calls plays in his fifth year as head coach.

• Since the start of the 2015 campaign, OU ranks first nationally in scoring (44.2 ppg; next most is 42.2), total offense (539.4; next most is 502.2), yards per play (7.6), TDs from scrimmage (479), pass efficiency rating (184.1; next best is 174.0) and completion percentage (69.4). It ranks third in passing offense (316.6) and ninth in rushing offense (222.8). No other program during the span ranks in the top 15 in passing and rushing offense.

• In 87 games since the start of the 2015 season, OU has registered at least 500 yards of total offense 57 times (next most is 48), including in 47 of the last 70 outings, topped the 600-yard mark on 28 occasions and gone over 700 yards seven times. Similarly, OU has scored at least 30 points in 75 of 87 games since Riley's arrival, at least 40 points 54 times, at least 50 points 32 times and at least 60 points 11 times.

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RILEY'S FAST START

• The FBS's youngest head coach (33) at the time of his hiring, Lincoln Riley became just the fifth mentor in FBS history with no previous head-coaching experience at a four-year college to win at least 12 games in his debut season. At 24-4, 36-6 and 45-8, he also holds the OU record for most wins by a head coach in his first two, three and four seasons (Barry Switzer held the records of 21 and 32, and Bob Stoops held the record of 43). He needs three more wins to set the outright record for victories in the first five years of an OU coaching career (Stoops holds that standard with 55 [1999-03]).

• Riley is the only person to ever win an outright FBS conference title in each of his first four seasons as a collegiate head coach.

• No one in the previous 125 years won more games in their first three seasons as a college head coach than Riley did from 2017-19. Penn's George Woodruff (1892-94) was the last to win more than 36 games in his first three seasons.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S BEST

• During the modern era of college football (since the end of World War II), the Sooners are the nation's No. 1 team with more wins (681) than any other program (next most is 640 by Alabama).

• Oklahoma is the highest-scoring program in college football history with 37,190 points (in 1,307 games).

• OU leads all FBS programs with 50 all-time conference championships. The rest of the top five includes Nebraska (46), Michigan (42), Ohio State (39) and USC (37). The Sooners' 14 league titles since 2000 are the most among Power Five programs (Ohio State ranks second with 11).

• No program has more all-time 10-win seasons than Oklahoma, which is tied with Alabama with 40 (OU has a nation-leading 17 10-win campaigns since 2000). In addition, OU's 26 seasons with at least 11 wins are the most in college football history.

• Since former head coach Bob Stoops arrived in Norman in 1999, OU leads all Power Five conference programs in wins (243; next most is 238 by Ohio State) and points scored (11,635; next most is 10,564 by Oregon).

EXTRA POINTS

• Oklahoma has already tied the single-season school record with five wins by seven or fewer points (also in 2010 and 2019). In fact, for the first time in program history, the Sooners won four consecutive games by seven or fewer points each (beat Nebraska by seven, West Virginia by three, Kansas State by six and Texas by seven). They also beat Tulane 40-35 in the opener.

• The Sooners are 46-10-1 all-time as the No. 4-ranked team in the AP poll (24-2 at home). Oklahoma has faced Texas Tech only once while ranked fourth, and that was a 60-15 home win over the No. 24 Red Raiders in 2002. OU has won 13 straight home games while ranked fourth, including a 52-31 decision vs. TCU on Oct. 16 (its last such loss was in 2001 to Oklahoma State).

• Redshirt senior linebacker Bryan Mead played in his 56th career game Sept. 25 against West Virginia to break the previous school record of 55 games that was held by former quarterback and holder Connor McGinnis. Mead has now played in 60 contests.

• The Sooners have outscored their opponents by a combined 84-26 margin in the second quarter this season.

• Co-offensive coordinator and inside receivers coach Cale Gundy is OU's all-time leader in victories (274) as a player (31) and/or coach (243). Barry Switzer ranks second with 215, all as an assistant or head coach.

• The Sooners are tied with Clemson for the second-longest current streak of New Year's Six bowl appearances (six). They trail Ohio State (seven) and are followed by Georgia (four), Florida (three), Oregon (two) and six programs with one.