TWTW: Oklahoma Saves Big 12/11/10 From A Departing Champ, Beats Nebraska

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The Huskers made sure the Big 12/11/10 Championship Game would be remembered. They jumped out to a 17-0 lead, dominating the first quarter-plus on both sides of the ball.

And if you believe in numbers, for the Sooners, an OU team hadn’t come back from a three-score deficit since 1983.

“I told them to just keep playin’ ball,” Sooner coach Bob Stoops said.

They did, getting pressure on any Nebraska indivudual who lined up at quarterback-winning 23-20...

Looks like they'll get UConn now in the Fiesta...

Damon Fontenot discusses...

TWTW: Sooners Survive Bedlam Over OSU

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Let's face it...

The last four minutes of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game were the exact personification of the entire series...

No one can stop the other- even if they damn well tried. And when you thought everything was under control, it wasn't.

40 points were scored in the final 15 minutes- including a stretch where 20 points were scored in a minute and thirty-two seconds.

As a result, it means that there's a three-way tie for the Big 12/11/10 South title. When the Bee-Cee-Ess comes out this afternoon, the highest-rated team wins the tiebreaker. In all probability, it means that OU faces Nebraska in the title game in a conference that Nebraska wants nothing to do with after this year.

We once again are showing a bundled-up Jenni Carlson and Jake Trotter to analyze...

TWTW: Oklahoma Does What Everyone Else Should Do To Colorado

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It took Oklahoma a little while to warm up in their home game against Colorado, only leading 3-0 after one quarter.

But after that it was all Sooners...

Ryan Broyles caught three TD's giving ninth-ranked OU a 43-10 victory at Owen Field.

On nine catches, Broyles finished with 208 yards, breaking the school record for receiving yards in a game. Manny Johnson had the previous mark with 206 receiving yards against TCU in 2008.

Broyles 81-yarder for a score is now a school record in the Stoops era. He is now only three touchdown receptions away from breaking Mark Clayton's record of 31 career touchdown catches.

Damon Fontenot has your rundown...

TWTW: Red River Recap, OU Wins 28-20

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So, the golden cowboy hat goes to Norman for the first time in a long time...

Sooners head coach Bob Stoops had lost four of five to the Longhorns, but Texas had too many penalties at too many key times to keep Oklahoma drives alive.

"Game-changers," said Texas head coach Mack Brown. "Just absolute killers."

Yeah, they were...

That and a late fumble on special teams when the Longhorns had their chance to come down for a possible game-tying score...

Hey, but 5-0 is 5-0, right...???

Damon Fontenot has the microphone first...

TWTW: Why Did OU Travel To Cincinnati Again...?

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Going in... the OSG North office ((and the other satellites, for that matter)) didn't give the Bearcats much of a puncher's chance against Oklahoma. But, the idea that the Sooners were looking ahead to their game with Texas may have crept into a few minds here...

It took the late recovery of an onside kick to seal a 31-29 win against Cincinnati.

OU's Landry Jones had 370 yards passing and 2TD's. But the visitors racked up 13 penalties for 113 yards, and they were outgained by the Bearcats 461-452. If you do some quick subtraction, it means they only ran for 82 yards on the road...

Yeah, they weren't thinking Red River at all...

FOSG Berry Tramel and Jake Trotter analyze the idea that OU should never take another roadie east of the Mississippi ever again...

Oklahoma Struggles With Utah State 31-24

Oklahooma needed an interception by Jammel Flemming to save a 7-point victory over a Utah State team that had won only five games in the last four years.

Landry Jones threw two interceptions. DeMarco Murray ran for 218 yards with two touchdowns.

The defense struggled with all of its new secondary pieces, and Utah State turned a 21-3 deficit into a real ball game.

Save for Flemming's save at the end...

We don't have highlights, but the HQ has the next best thing...

Jenni Carlson and Jake Trotter analyze before Florida State hits town next week...
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Basically, head coach Bob Stoops turned this game into one, big "meh."

TWTW: Sooners Bask In The Sun Bowl

Maybe that Bradford kid isn't needed at OU anymore. Landry Jones had the game of his life for Oklahoma throwing for 417 yards. Ryan Broyles was Jones' favorite target catching 3 touchdowns. In all Broyles caught 13 passes for 156 yards, both career highs, and left El Paso, Texas with Sun Bowl MVP honors.

Oklahoma's 31-27 win over Stanford ended OU's 3 game bowl losing streak and put a positive spin of a season that really sucked for the Sooners

Here's the highlights of the game Berry Tramel of the Daily Oklahoman (Thanks Newsok.com)

TWTW: Who Are These Sooners...??? Lose To Texas Tech 41-13

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Oklahoma wore white unis and helmets for the first time in forty years, and after the 41-13 loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock, they may put them away for another forty.

Four of OU's losses were by a total of twelve points...
This one was a horizon job...and it was OU's worst loss since 2005...

Tech had 549 yards of offense- 187 on the ground. So much for that 6th-ranked defense in the country...

Quarterback Landry Jones completed just 18 of 35 passes, and running backs Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray combined for 51 yards rushing on 18 carries.

Saturday's 28-point defeat was the third-most lopsided loss in the Bob Stoops era. Only USC in 2004 (55-19) and Texas in 2005 (45-12) were worse.

Who wants to bet he's talking to folks in South Bend real soon...???

Newsok.com's Berry Tramel has the op-ed piece with the OU beat writers from Jones Stadium in Lubbock...

TWTW: Huskers Get Their OU Jones, Win 10-3

This game used to mean something, and should always be held on Thanksgiving week...

Now, they've gone and screwed it up...
At least, that's what OU is thinking these days...
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Nebraska brought home a sweet victory over an old rival, as the Blackshirt defense hauled in five interceptions and shut down No. 20 Oklahoma in a 10-3 victory at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

In a game that harkened back to the classic battles of the Big Red of the past four decades, Nebraska held the Sooners out of the end zone and mustered enough offense to improve to 6-3 overall and 3-2 in the Big 12. The Huskers dropped the 20th-ranked Sooners to 5-4 and 3-2 in front of 86,115 fans and ABC television audience.

In a game dominated by one of the nation's best defensive units, Blackshirt Matt O'Hanlon played the biggest game of his career to help the Huskers erase a two-game home skid while erasing the memory of committing eight turnovers in a loss to Iowa State at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 24.

O'Hanlon, a senior from Omaha, Neb., tied a Nebraska record with three interceptions while erupting for a career-high 12 tackles. The last of his interceptions ended the Sooners' last chance at the end zone with 27 seconds left in the game. O'Hanlon's huge game also erased any memories Husker fans had of a last second touchdown scored by Virginia Tech in a road loss against the Hokies in September.

"This is one of the biggest wins of my career here and I probably can't play much better," O'Hanlon said after the game. "I was pretty down after the Virginia Tech game, and I just needed a breakout game to get my confidence back. I think that happened tonight."

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