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FANTASTIC FINISH BRINGS BACK

After a Nov. 7 loss at Baylor, Oklahoma appeared wounded and lost. But from adversity, character and perseverance soon reigned. The Sooners closed with a quartet of victories, each one bigger than the last, clearly succeeding in bringing back ‌

THE COMEBACK

THE PROLOGUE

THE MEMORIES

BY JOHN SHINN

BY CLAY HORNING

BY MICHAEL KINNEY

Commemorative Section

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Oklahoma wide receiver Jalen Saunders celebrates a first-half touchdown against Alabama with offensive lineman Bronson Irwin.

Facing injury, adversity and doubt, Sooners counted on character to stay the course, triumph in the end

By John Shinn Transcript Sports Writer

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he confetti had all fallen at the Superdome when Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and defensive end Geneo Grissom were thinking back to five months earlier.

It was in preseason practice when the coach told the group of lightly experienced defensive linemen something that turned out to be prophetic.

“I said, ‘All I’ve heard for half the year is we don’t have any D linemen,’” Stoops said. “I said, ‘I count 10 of you right here.’”

Grissom, a sophomore, ended the season as the Sugar Bowl defensive MVP in OU’s 45-31 victory over Alabama.

He reached that level because he got a little better with every practice and every game.

The defensive line, which will bring every single starter and contributor back next year, epitomized the Sooners’ season. They improved with every game and played like they had something to prove.

“We have a lot of guys that can make plays,” Grissom said. “It (was) a matter of time before we were all able to get in a groove and execute.”

Because they were willing to accept coaching, Sooner defensive coordinator Mike Stoops likened them to OU’s 2000 national championship team. It was a group that wanted to get better.

The difference was that team did not face the kind of on-the-field challenges this one did. In 2000, not one starter suffered a season-ending injury. This time around,

by November, OU was without two of its senior captains, linebacker Corey Nelson and fullback Trey Millard.

They were just two of seven players the Sooners lost to season-ending injuries. They were part of the downs faced in a season that did not include a Big 12 Conference title.

The fact OU entered the season with relatively low outside expectations was a major preseason storyline.

• See SEASON Page 6

“These guys leave a great legacy, to come in here in this situation and do what they did to finish out the year. People want to write us off and all of a sudden it's like, ‘Where'd this come from?’ Well, it’s their character. I can't say it surprises me because I see them every day.

They leave a great legacy.”

Bob Stoops, OU football coach

W, 34-0

Trevor Knight struggles mightily in his first start at quarterback, but Mike Stoops’ new 3-4 defense shines, holding the Warhawks to 166 yards of total offense.

W, 16-7

Knight finishes game at QB, but disappoints again. A year after Mountaineers ran wild in Morgantown, Sooners stop them cold after Dreamius Smith’s 75-yard first-quarter run.

W, 51-20

Blake Bell makes his first start at quarterback and turns it into an historic debut, completing 27 of 37 passes for 413 yards and a quartet of touchdowns.

W, 35-21

At the time it seemed like everything was coming together for OU to enter the national championship picture. It wasn’t, but this win still vanquished many Sooner Nation demons.

W, 20-17

A 76-yard touchdown run from Brennan Clay proved huge after TCU made it a three-point game in the seond half. Other than that, OU was limited to 279 yards of total offense.

L, 36-20

What many anticipated would be a Sooner blowout became a Longhorn blowout as Case McCoy played the game of his life, making 13 completions count for 190 yards and two TDs.

W, 34-19

A testament to OU’s inablity to get off to good starts, the Jayhawks actually led 13-0 in this game. Eventually, OU found its way, finishing with 235 yards on the ground.

W, 38-30

The Sooners appeared to right the ship by handing the Red Raiders their first loss of the season. Damien Williams carried for 97 yards, part of 277 ground yards for the Sooners.

L, 41-12

The low point of the season, especially after the Sooner defense came out and actually stopped Baylor a few times.

OU appeared lost, gaining just 237 yards of total offense.

W, 48-10

Jalen Saunders 91-yard punt return tied the game before the half. Also, after Blake Bell suffered a concussion, Trevor Knight was terrific, running for 123 yards and throwing for 61.

W, 41-31

With the stink of the Baylor game still sticking to the Sooners, they arrived in Manhattan an underdog. But Knight was great and OU looked like a different team just in time for Bedlam.

W, 33-24

The craziest game of the season, played under frigid conditions, Blake Bell, OU’s third quarterback, leads gamesaving drive in final moments. Who saw that coming?

W, 45-31

Trevor Knight finished a game for the ages, completing 32 of 44 passes for 348 yards and four touchdowns and the Sooners land the upset of the bowl season.

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By shocking Alabama at the Sugar Bowl, Sooners have created confidence, momentum and recruiting mojo that will carry the program forward

PROPELLERS 4.

Third down

• OU faced third-and-3 at its own 46 trying to avoid giving the ball back to Notre Dame with a chance for the Irish to take the lead. Instead, Blake Bell found Sterling Shepard (above) for a 54-yard catch and run touchdowns.

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Return

• This punt return, against Iowa State, from Jalen Saunders (above) just might have been the singular turning point of the 2013 season.

Afterward, OU rolled by the Cyclones, then upset both Oklahoma State and Alabama.

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Drive

• Blake Bell (above), OU’s third choice to be Bedlam quarterback on a frigid December day, took the Sooners the length of the field in the final moments to claim one of the wildest meets ever between the two in-state rivals.

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Above: Sooner quarterback Trevor Knight begins to roll right during Oklahoma’s 45-31 victory over Alabama at the Sugar Bowl. Top: Sterling Shepard catches a touchdown pass from Knight in the fourth quarter of the Sooners’ victory over the Crimson Tide.

Clay Horning Sports Editor

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klahoma righted its season against Iowa State.

It looked like two evenly matched teams until Jalen Saunders broke his punt return.

Life was breathed back into the Sooners and, by the time it was over, the only question was whether or not it had been real.

Turned out it had.

Some snowballs get bigger and bigger, but this was more like an avalanche, one that could

not have closed the 2013 season in any greater style.

And that’s really it, isn’t it?

It is about the way the Sooners closed and it is about who they closed against: a Kansas State program that was the favorite that day at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, a Bedlam rival with designs on its second Big 12 championship in three seasons and the Crimson Tide, led by the Great Saban, maybe the closest thing to the middle-50s Bud

Wilkinson-coached Sooners college football’s seen since.

There you have it.

A finish for the ages.

It demands congratulations, adulation and, it would seem, a special section in the hometown paper.

Still, the thing about it?

It’s not really the end of something. It’s the beginning.

Perhaps if there’d been • See HORNING Page 5

Next 2014 Schedule Aug. 30 Louisiana Tech Sept. 13 Tennessee Sept. 20 at Tulsa Sept. 27, at West Virginia Oct. 4 at TCU Oct. 11 Texas (Dallas) Oct. 18 Kansas State Oct. 30/Nov. 1 at Iowa State Nov. 8 Baylor Nov. 15 at Texas Tech Nov. 2 at Kansas Nov. 29/Dec. 6 OSU

• If Alabama had stopped OU, it would have had the chance to tie the game with 5 minutes remaining.

Brennan Clay (above) caught a screen pass and somehow picked his way to the marker, allowing the Sooners to burn precious time.

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Ikard looks back on a long season that came together at just the right time

By Michael Kinney Transcript Sports Writer

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hen Gabe Ikard first arrived at Oklahoma in 2009, the program was coming off a loss in the BCS Championship to Florida. Even though it was a devastating defeat, he must have thought the Sooners would make it back to the title game during his time with the program.

After five years in Norman, the Sooners were unable to play for another BCS championship. Yet, Ikard may have experienced the next best thing when Oklahoma knocked off Alabama 45-31 at the Sugar Bowl.

“It’s great. Great feeling.

Great way to end the year,” Ikard said. “Really happy for the seniors and myself.

Really can’t ask for much of a better way to end a college football career.

Really excited for our fans and the football program.

“It was a huge win for us and really puts things in motion. Kind of legitimizes us as still one of the premier programs in the country led by the premier coach in the country in coach (Bob) Stoops.”

During the run-up to the Sooners’ trip to New Orleans, Ikard was the one who was sent out to talk the media on almost every occasion. He had to respond to questions asking if the Sooners stood a chance of even being able to compete with the Crimson Tide.

At no point did the senior loss his cool. He would calmly let people know he liked his team’s chances.

“Most people were saying it was impossible,” Ikard said. “But we didn’t listen to that. We knew it was Alabama versus Oklahoma. Not SEC versus Big 12. It wasn’t that they had more all-Americans. It wasn’t that for us.

“For us, it was what do you see on tape and how can we take advantage of their weaknesses. That’s what we did. We played our best game of the year in all three phases of the game and just out-executed them.”

Ikard made sure to soak in the experience. From the victory to the atmosphere to being with his teammates a final time together, he enjoyed every moment.

“It hasn’t really hit me yet,” Ikard said the day after the Sugar Bowl, upon returning to campus. “I’m sure over next couple of days it will sink in. We won so I didn’t have to do the whole crying thing or anything like that, like the seniors last year.

“So I got to enjoy Bourbon Street with my

Above: Over Bob Stoops’ left shoulder, OU senior center Gabe Ikard takes part in post Sugar Bowl hoopla with his teammates.

Left: Tight end Brannon Green celebrates victory inside the Superdome.

Right: Senior running back Roy Finch tries to elude the tackle attempt of an Alabama defender.

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boys and some of the ex players. We definitely enjoyed the victory. It was great. Other than winning the national championship, you can’t ask for a better way to go out. I had a great time and a fantastic trip.”

While injuries mounted and other seniors saw their

seasons cut short, Ikard was a mainstay for the Sooners. In many ways, he became the face of the program. With his academic achievements and charm with the media, the Sooners were not bashful about trotting him out each week as the team’s

spokesman.

“As smart as they come as a football player and obviously in the classroom, as well,” offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said. “He’s a guy that cares deeply about this program. It meant something for him to come here and play. It

means something for him every day, and that’s why you see him prepare and practice the way he does every single day. He’s played at an extremely high level for four years.”

Ikard was recently named one of the Big 12 Conference Scholar-Athlete

of the Year recipients for the 2013 fall semester. It was just one of several postseason awards the Bishop McGuinness product has taken home from his final season.

Those awards include • See IKARD Page 6

“When it came down to it, we played as a team. That’s what’s most important in the game of football. Eleven guys on the field at the same time working together.”

Gabe Ikard, All-American Sooner center

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Horning: Foundation • From Page 3

Above: Who do you think had the better Sugar Bowl experience, the family of Sooner fans shown in this fan-provided photograph, or Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of AJ McCarron, shown in this photo from the Associated Press.

Right: If anybody was wondering, the confetti dropped from the top of the Superdome did not cover the entire field, as this fan-provided photo proves.

Bob Stoops arrives victoriously outside Owen Field where fans met the team upon its return home.

Jay Chilton / The Transcript

Right: What’s a BCS bowl game experience without the chance to hang with a couple Heisman Trophy winners?

In this fan-provided photo, a loyal member of the Sooner Nation enjoys a moment with Steve Owens, left, and Billy Sims.

Above: In this fan-taken photograph Oklahoma and Alabama line up to run a play during the Sooners’ 45-31 Sugar Bowl victory Jan. 2 at the Superdome.

enough room, the top of the page, instead, would have read, “Prologue to Greatness.”

That’s what it feels like.

When San Jose (Calif.) Freedom High’s Joe Mixon declared for OU at the Army All-America Bowl, in San Antonio, you could almost feel the Sooner Nation, the vast majority of which is not made up of recruiting nerds, uncork yet more champagne two days after the Sooners turned the Tide.

Mixon is only the No. 1 running back in the nation, says Rivals.com, the recruiting nerd’s original bookmark. And, still, Mixon’s announcement, too, is only a part of the beginning.

Before 2013’s fantastic finish, OU was a blue blood program scratching and clawing to remain relevant at the highest level. Championships had eluded it, its Bedlam rival, not historically, but in the here and now, was threatening to pass it. Nothing can stand still forever and OU appeared to be teetering toward a real step down.

Everything’s changed.

Mixon’s commitment is important and, in a week-long news cycle, plenty big. Much bigger, however, is the way OU and the Sooner Nation now looks at itself.

Bob Stoops, always in the trees rather than seeing the forest from above, would not agree, yet it’s true.

Now, anything’s possible.

Now, for crying out loud, OU need not even be the best team on the field to win big. And if it is the best team, well, all the better. Because OU might well be the best team … let us count the ways.

The Sooners turned the Tide despite some pretty awful tackling, but that shouldn’t get in the way of a very positive assessment of a defense that was so much better this past season than the one before, that will bring back the vast majority of its starters and that will be in its new system for only its second season, yielding still more reason to believe OU will only get stingier and stingier.

Also, there’s no reason to believe Trevor Knight won’t be a four-year starter and there’s no reason to believe that won’t be a very good thing.

People are saying he did to Alabama what he’d been doing in practice all through the preseason.

Hard to believe he was that good, but he probably had to be to get the Day One nod. And any way you slice it, the game he just played was no mirage.

“Trevor Football” may not have a ring to it, but how about “Trevor Ballgame?”

It even appears offensive coordinator Josh Heupel has found his footing and confidence as a game-planner and play-caller.

Think about it this way.

When the offseason’s burning question comes down to who’ll get the carries, you’re in a pretty good place.

The defense is ascending. The offense has found its footing. Special teams have been special for a couple of seasons already and should be again.

Even the head coach has proven his willingness to take chances. Indeed, OU doesn’t get its Bedlam victory without a holder named Grant Bothun — anonymous until that day — tossing a touchdown pass to kicker Michael Hunnicutt. And when you can pull off a play like that, anything’s possible. Given everything else, possible may bleed right on into probable.

The golden age of the Bob Stoops era was 2000 to 2004. Sam Bradford’s season in the sun, even in the midst of a trio of conference titles, remains a sort of singular event.

Here we go again.

Three unlikely victories to end one amazing season putting a fantastic foundation in place to chase several still better seasons.

If you haven’t noticed, the Sooner Nation is a very exciting place.

Clay Horning Follow me @clayhorning cfhorning@normantranscript.com

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Ikard: About as good as it gets • From Page 1

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Family time Oklahoma offensive lineman Nila Kasitati finds his mother in the crowd for a hug in the aftermath of the Sooners’ 45-31 Sugar Bowl victory inside the Superdome. Kasitati played a vital role in shoring up OU’s offensive line after injury had taken a toll on the unit.

the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year as well as his being the recipient of the 2013 Lee Roy Selmon Spirit Award.

“To receive this award from the Selmon family is truly humbling,” Ikard said. “Particularly for a native Oklahoman like myself, to be the first individual from the University of Oklahoma to be recognized for representing everything that the Selmon family stands for is one of the most meaningful honors of my career.”

Ikard is also the first OU football studentathlete in program history to be named Academic All-America of the Year and the first to be named a three-time Academic All-American.

He was previously honored with the 2013 National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award.

However, Ikard said all the recognition and awards he has received, he shares with his teammates.

Even as others around them lost faith in what the Sooners could accomplish, he says they never lost faith in each other.

“When it came down to it, we played as a team,” Ikard said. “That’s what’s most important in the game of football.

Eleven guys on the field at the same time working together. We did a great job of that. Finish strong.

Had some rough patches in there. But I think it was great for the program the way we finished. Only going to get better going forward.”

Michael Kinney Follow me @eyeamtruth mkinney@normantranscript.com

Season: Perseverance pays off big at the end The Sooners, who were a two-touchdown favorite The Sooners began the against an unranked and season ranked outside the struggling Texas team, top 10 for the first time in struggled and lost 36-20. years.

It took a month and Still, expectations began another quarterback to build by late September change to regroup and a when OU went to Notre demoralizing loss before Dame and won for the first things got better. time since 1956.

The Sooners’ meeting OU appeared to be on an with Baylor Nov. 7 offered upward track. The defenevery indication it would be sive issues that had plagued a de facto conference title it since 2010 seemed to be game. The Sooners held the resolving themselves. The explosive Bears in check for new 3-4 alignment that was 11⁄2 quarters, then fell apart. installed was working.

The 41-12 loss was one of The preseason quarterthe worst during Stoops’ back race between junior tenure and had many Blake Bell and redshirt wondering if major changes freshman Trevor Knight needed to be made. was resolved. Knight That question lingered started the first two games, into the Nov. 16 meeting but was benched to due a with Iowa State, but knee injury and turnovers. something changed in the After Bell led the Sooners second half of that game. to a victory over the Irish, Bell was injured and Knight everything seemed settled. took over in the second Then the Red River quarter.

Shootout changed things.

By the second half, the • From Page 2

Sooners had turned into a rushing juggernaut. Posting a 48-10 victory, OU’s season turned.

The Sooners went to Kansas State and Oklahoma State as underdogs.

The coach detested the label. The team had embraced it all season.

The Sooners rolled through the Wildcats on a brutally cold day in Manhattan, Kan. On an even colder day in early December in Stillwater, the Sooners knocked off sixth-ranked Oklahoma State 33-24. Only this time it was Bell who relieved an injured Knight in the second half and led a two-minute touchdown drive to seal the victory.

“I feel that’s our team this year. We had guys step up all year,” Knight said. “It’s very easy when you’re not playing, sitting on the sideline, to put your head down. But that shows that our team, quarterback

position and every position, that we just stayed the course. We kept battling every day at practice. So when it was our time to shine, we could go out and do that.”

The Sooners clearly battled.

All-Big 12 cornerback Aaron Colvin missed a game with an concussion and another with a shoulder injury that lingered throughout the season. He along with seniors like AllAmerican center Gabe Ikard, guard Bronson Irwin and safety Gabe Lynn kept the Sooners from disintegrating into pity.

“What an awesome senior class,” Stoops said.

“Aaron fought through so many injuries the whole year. He was banged up again (in the Sugar Bowl) and wouldn’t stay out and played his heart out. Gabe Lynn had a huge year. They did everything they could.

“These guys leave a great legacy, to come in here in this situation and do what they did to finish out the year. People want to write us off and all of a sudden it’s like, Where’d this come from? Well, it’s their character. I can’t say it surprises me because I see them every day. They leave a great legacy.”

They leave the program in better shape than they found it. The way OU closed the season illuminated the future for the Sooners. They bring back the overwhelming majority of their starters.

After Knight’s performance against the Crimson Tide, OU suddenly has a Heisman Trophy candidate for 2014. The lofty expectations are back, but the Sooners are a team worthy of them.

John Shinn Follow me @john_shinn jshinn@normantranscript.com

13 Games OU Opp. SCORING 427 287 Points Per Game 32.8 22.1 FIRST DOWNS 280 233 Rushing 155 92 Passing 106 118 Penalty 19 23 RUSHING YARDAGE 2911 1789 Yards gained rushing 3191 2108 Yards lost rushing 280 319 Rushing Attempts 559 437 Average Per Rush 5.2 4.1 Average Per Game 223.9 137.6 TDs Rushing 19 17 PASSING YARDAGE 2588 2763 Comp-Att-Int 225-383-11 225-409-16 Average Per Pass 6.8 6.8 Average Per Catch 11.5 12.3 Average Per Game 199.1 212.5 TDs Passing 24 17 TOTAL OFFENSE 5499 4552 Total Plays 942 846 Average Per Play 5.8 5.4 Average Per Game 423.0 350.2 KICK RETURNS 34-761 36-838 PUNT RETURNS 23-326 20-312 INT RETURNS 16-258 11-97 KICK RETURN Avg. 22.4 23.3 PUNT RETURN Avg. 14.2 15.6 INT RETURN Avg. 16.1 8.8 FUMBLES-LOST 17-5 14-9 PENALTIES-Yards 87-723 73-632 Average Per Game 55.6 48.6 PUNTS-Yards 67-2746 76-3049 Average Per Punt 41.0 40.1 Net punt average 34.5 34.8 KICKOFFS-Yards 84-5279 61-3667 Average Per Kick 62.8 60.1 Net kick average 45.7 37.4 TOP/Game 32:18 27:42 3RD-DOWN Conv. 77/195 60/178 3rd-Down Pct 39% 34% 4TH-DOWN Conv.

11/16 5/14 4th-Down Pct 69% 36% SACKS BY-Yards 33-204 15-109 MISC YARDS -12 0 TDs SCORED 50 36 FGs-Attempts 24-27 13-16 ON-SIDE KICKS 1-1 1-2 RED-ZONE (48-55) 87% (30-35) 86% RED-ZONE TDs (29-55) 53% (20-35) 57% PAT-attempts (47-48) 98% (32-35) 91% ATTENDANCE 508334 283738 Games/Avg 6/84722 5/56748 Neutral Site Games 2/81486 Rushing Att Yds Y/C TD Lg Y/G Clay 175 957 5.5 6 76 73.6 Williams 114 53 4.9 7 69 61.4 Knight 67 445 6.6 2 56 55.6 Finch 59 347 5.9 0 48 26.7 Bell 75 255 3.4 0 27 23.2 Ford 23 134 5.8 1 23 13.4 Millard 17 97 5.7 1 33 12.1 Shepard 6 44 7.3 1 24 3.7 Saunders 5 44 8.8 0 37 3.4 Bester 1 35 35.0 1 35 2.9 Thompson 4 20 5.0 0 12 10.0 Ross 3 19 6.3 0 8 1.9 Team 10 -39 -3.9 0 0 -3.5 Total 559 2911 5.2 19 76 223.9 Opp. 437 1789 4.1 17 80 137.6 Passing Eff C-A-I Pct Yds. TD Bell 132.2 140-233-5 60.1 1648 12 Knight 125.0 79-134-5 59.0 819 9 Thompson 82.1 4-13-1 30.8 64 1 Team 0.0 0-1-0 0.0 0 0 Bester 841.6 1-1-0 100.0 49 1 Bothun 497.2 1-1-0 100.0 8 1 Total 130.4 225-383-11 58.7 2588 24 Opp. 117.7 225-409-16 55.0 2763 17 Receiving No. Yds. Avg. TD Lg A/G Saunders 61 729 12.0 8 76 56.1 Shepard 51 603 11.8 7 57 50.2 Bester 27 392 14.5 2 47 32.7 Clay 16 99 6.2 0 13 7.6 Reynolds 14 216 15.4 1 82 18.0 Neal 13 176 13.5 0 41 13.5 Finch 12 91 7.6 2 29 7.0 Millard 11 78 7.1 1 29 9.8 Williams 9 90 10.0 0 30 10.0 Green 2 29 14.5 0 16 2.2 Woods 2 29 14.5 0 20 2.6 Bennett 2 23 11.5 0 12 3.3 Metoyer 2 18 9.0 1 13 4.5 Hunnicutt 1 8 8.0 1 8 0.6 McNamara 1 4 4.0 0 4 1.3 Ripkowski 1 3 3.0 1 3 0.2 Total 225 2588 11.5 24 82 199.1 Opp. 225 2763 12.3 17 90 212.5

Shannon Alexander Hayes Lynn Colvin Striker Sanchez Ndulue Grissom Nelson Wilson Wade Johnson Everett Evans Lindley

Tackles (leaders) S A T Loss Sack 55 37 92 7.0-24 2.0-13 50 30 80 3.5-4 1.0-1 .

45 30 75 4.0-12 1.0-7 37 21 58 3.0-22 2.5-19 44 11 55 5.0-11 1.0-3 28 22 50 10.5-64 6.5-48 33 13 46 0.5-1 20 22 42 5.0-20 2.5-17 22 19 41 9.0-48 4.5-36 13 14 27 3.0-6 1.0-1 20 6 26 4.5-18 8 9 17 1.5-1 1.5-1 8 8 16 11 2 13 2.5-14 1.5-12 6 6 12 0.5-0 6 4 10

Punt Returns No. Yds. Avg TD Long Saunders 20 308 15.4 2 91 Thomas 1 2 2.0 0 2 Dimon 1 14 14.0 0 14 Sanzhez 1 2 2.0 0 2 Total 23 326 14.2 2 91 Opp. 20 312 15.6 1 85 Interceptions No. Yds. Avg TD Long Lynn 4 46 11.5 0 31 Wilson 3 0 0.0 0 0 Hayes 2 0 0.0 0 0 Sanchez 2 117 58.5 1 74 Shannon 1 17 17.0 0 17 Nelson 1 24 24.0 1 24 Austin 1 0 0.0 0 0 Colvin 1 0 0.0 0 0 Grissom 1 54 54.0 1 54 Total 16 258 16.1 3 74 Opp. 11 97 8.8 1 42 Kick Returns No. Yds. Avg TD Long Finc 19 486 25.6 0 73 Clay 6 83 13.8 0 22 Franks 5 118 23.6 0 40 Millard 1 11 11.0 0 11 Team 1 0 0.0 0 0 Green 1 8 8.0 0 8 Saunders 1 55 55.0 0 55 Total 34 761 22.4 0 73 Opp. 36 838 23.3 0 51 Fumble Returns No. Yds. Avg TD Long Grissom 2 34 17.0 1 26 Striker 1 3 3.0 1 3 Lynn 1 27 27.0 0 27 Total 4 64 16.0 2 27 Opp. 0 0 0.0 0 0

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