Bedlam 2012 - OU edition

Seasoned veteran Landry Jones starting in his fourth Bedlam Oklahoma State at Oklahoma ■

2:30 p.m. Nov. 24, 2012

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INSIDE ■

A product of these newspapers

Column: Bedlam has evolved into a whole new series, OU 6

■ The

Stoops era: Rivalry has become a battle of resurgent teams, OU 11 ■ The

role of the defense in this Bedlam matchup, OU 17

■ What’s

The Ada News

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The (Chickasha) Express-Star

at stake: A look at bowl prospects, OU 18

Fans remember the Ice Bowl, OU 20 Matchups, OU 28

The Claremore Daily Progress

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The Duncan Banner

■ Team

statistics, OU 28 ■

The Edmond Sun

OU Roster, OU 29 ■ When

Oklahoma has the ball, OU Two-deep

The Enid News & Eagle The McAlester News-Capital The Muskogee Phoenix The Norman Transcript The Pauls Valley Democrat

ON THE COVER

The (Pryor) Times

Landry Jones photo: Jerry Laizure / The Norman Transcript

The (Stillwater) NewsPress The Tahlequah Daily Press The Waurika News Democrat

OU senior Landry Jones will make his 48th career start in his fourth and final Bedlam matchup. Read more on OU 14.

The Woodward News

Editorial staff Sports Editor Clay Horning, sports editor cfhorning@normantranscript.com

Sports Writer John Shinn, sports writer jshinn@normantranscript.com

Photos Jerry Laizure, photographer jlaizure@normantranscript.com

Kyle Phillips, photographer kphillips@normantranscript.com

Additional photos: The Associated Press Section design Debra A. Parker, editor dparker@normantranscript.com

UPON FURTHER REVIEW OU receiver Justin Brown (19) pushes away a Florida A&M defender after he catches a pass during the Sooners’ game against the Rattlers at Owen Field. Game recaps from the current season, OU 23-27.

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In 2011, Bedlam grew into an all-new series year ago the Bedlam rivals appeared to be hurdling toward a veritable national semifinal. It may be hard to remember because even at the time it seemed so hard to imagine.

Yet, there they were.

Oklahoma won its first six games of the season, inexplicably fell 41-38 to Texas Tech, yet still liked its chances of getting back in the national championship hunt by running the Clay table; a table that would Horning include unbeaten Oklahoma State at the Transcript end. sports editor It all went wrong Nov. 19, the day Robert Griffin III made his Heisman case

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against the Sooners, a 45-38 Baylor victory; also the day Iowa State beat an Oklahoma State team in mourning, 37-31, two days after OSU women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna and two others died in a plane crash.

It was an awful week for the state.

A very big game, though, remained on the agenda.

Instead of being played for a place in the BCS title game, Bedlam would be played for the Big 12 Conference crown.

The Sooners didn’t even belong on the field last year with the Cowboys, who embarrassed their rivals 44-10.

How big was the win?

Well, nobody’d won by such a margin since OU claimed a 52-9 victory in 2003. And it was for the conference title. And it propelled

OSU to the Fiesta Bowl, where it toppled Stanford 41-38 in game as exciting as Bedlam had been lopsided. And, just maybe, it all served to cloud the bigger story of what Bedlam has become.

A rivalry of equals.

People thought last year had national championship implications, then they savored the conference championship implications, but did everybody forget the bigger story?

OSU is going nowhere.

OSU is no longer a nice story, a program that’s occasionally strong enough to threaten its Bedlam rival, a team that tugs at your heart because that’s the role of the perpetual underdog.

The flip side is just as meaningful.

Because in the past, when the • See HORNING, OU 8

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Sooners fullback Trey Millard tries to break through Cowboys defenders during the 2011 Bedlam matchup in Stillwater.

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Horning: It’s an all-new Bedlam series • From OU 6 Cowboys won, the Sooners knew they’d get them next year, probably blow them out. In the past, OSU was the rival to which OU couldn’t imagine losing, because, you know, it hardly ever did.

The Les Miles Cowboys beat OU back-to-back in 2001 and 2002. The last time that happened — other than the John Blake years, which shouldn’t

really count, should they? — was 1965 and 1966 (and the last time before that was 1932 and 1933).

The Sooners still lead the series 82-17-7.

But history is history.

In the new Bedlam Series, the game can go either way. In the new series, every game is more important because every game now dictates the program with the upper hand for the next year.

In the past, even when OU lost, you couldn’t say that. In the

past, OU was still OU and OSU was always less than OU. Every loss the Sooners took was an upset. Every setback an exception to a still-binding rule.

No more.

Impressive enough is the fact the Cowboys have corralled 41 victories the previous four seasons. But proof may be what’s happened this season, when three different quarterbacks have led OSU to victories.

When fortune has dealt the

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Cowboys an awful hand yet they just keep winning.

Is there a better way to prove staying power?

Once upon a time, Texas was the Sooner arch-rival against whom the game could go either way. Meanwhile, the Cowboys were the rival against whom the game couldn’t.

Losing in Dallas was no fun, but the Sooners would always have Bedlam to fall back on.

No more.

OU should be favored when the teams take the field. The Sooners look like the better team, they’re playing at home and their quarterback has been starting, so it seems, since Wilkinson was the coach.

But the margin is slim, and next year may be slim again, even the other way.

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The thing about Bedlam ...

It has become a battle of resurgent programs

By Clay Horning Transcript Sports Editor

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Since OU head coach Bob Stoops, left, with OSU head coach Mike Gundy, arrived in Norman, the Sooners have led the Bedlam series 103.

The thing about Bedlam?

You’d think it’s one of those rivalries, as the cliche goes, where you can can throw out the record. The only problem is, it’s not really true.

Beginning in 1904 and uninterrupted since 1910, Oklahoma leads the series 82-17-7.

The other thing about Bedlam?

Well, since Bob Stoops came around and led the resurgence of Sooner football, the series is much closer. Part of that is because Oklahoma State has also become a resurgent program.

Still, even some mediocre Cowboy squads, coached by Bob Simmons and Les Miles, gave the Sooners all kinds of trouble. Miles even beat Stoops twice, a pair of upsets almost nobody saw coming.

Since Stoops left Gainesville for Norman, the Sooners lead the series 10-3. Of the the 13 meetings, five have been decided by a touch-

down or less. This season’s tilt will follow OSU’s second biggest victory in the history of the series. The Cowboys prevailed 44-10 last season at Boone Pickens Stadium. Their biggest win in series history came in 1945 (47-0).

Following are memorable matchups from the Stoops era section of the Bedlam Series.

Biggest prelude: Though Oklahoma had put 63 points on Texas and 31 unanswered against Nebraska and 56 at Baylor, Josh Heupel and the offense was losing steam by the time the Sooners arrived in Stillwater on Nov. 25, 2000.

OSU entered the game 3-7 on the season and Cowboy coach Bob Simmons was on his way out of Stillwater. The Sooners didn’t put the game away until Derrick Strait broke up a pass in the end zone and Heupel connected for a crucial first down, finally allowing OU to run out the clock.

Biggest shocker: One year later, OU • See STOOPS, OU 13

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The Stoops Era • From OU 11 remained in the national championship hunt despite a mid-season loss to Nebraska when OSU paid Owen Field a visit on Nov. 24, 2001. Again, the Cowboys had won just three games, though they were coming off a 16-point victory over Baylor (that included 517 yards of total offense) the week before. The game remains remembered for Josh Fields coming off the bench in relief of OSU quarterback Aso Pogi and leading the Cowboys to a 16-13 victory that knocked OU out of the national title race and the conference title race. Though the Sooners have fallen twice at Owen field this season, neither were the shocker OSU pulled off in 2001.

Biggest payback: After the 2001 game, OSU coach Les

Miles actually improved to 2-0 against Bob Stoops the following season with another stunning upset in Stillwater. This led to Miles offering clever off-season sound bites that were more funny than direspectful, not that Bob Stoops saw it that way heading into the 2003 meeting.

The Sooners finally tasted victory again over their Bedlam rival — a very good OSU squad; Miles had the Cowboys 7-1 and ranked No. 14 entering the game — with a 52-9 victory that kept the Sooners rolling toward the Big 12 title game.

Biggest reversal of fortune: Last season, 2011, in Stillwater, in a game that determined the Big 12 champion and the conference’s representative at the Fiesta Bowl, the Cowboys were the better team and it wasn’t even close, registering a 44-10

victory behind 151 rushing yards from Josh Randle. Sooner quarterback Landry Jones tossed two interceptions and fumbled the ball away two other times.

The Sooners trailed 24-3 at the half and 44-3 after three quarters.

OU embarrassed itself.

Best game: Has to be the 2008 contest, won 61-41 by OU. For the longest time it looked like the team that had the ball last would probably win it. Sam Bradford, in the midst of a Heisman Trophy season, completed 30 of 44 passes for 370 yards and four touchdowns, incuding nine completions and two touchdowns to tight end Jermaine Gresham. Bradford’s OSU counterpart, Zac Robinson, completed 17 of 26 for 254 yards and three touchdowns, while running for 90 yards and another touchdown.

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Sooners offensive lineman Tyler Evans (75) tries to buy his quarterback enough time to find a target.

OU senior Landry Jones already holds just about every one of the program’s passing records. No OU quarterback has played in more games or won more.

Bedlam will marks his 48th career start and fourth against the Cowboys.

Jackson Laizure / For Transcript Photo

48th career start

Jones growing more savvy

By John Shinn Transcript Sports Writer

If Bedlam comes down to experience, Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones doesn’t have much to sweat.

The senior already holds just about every one of the program’s passing records. No OU quarterback has played in more games or won more. Bedlam will marks his 48th career start and fourth against the Cowboys.

Jones freely admits every game brings a little more understanding of a game that seems simple from the stands, but moves at a blinding speed when you’re the one playing it.

“I feel I have a better flow for the game and when critical drives need to be made and when the offense needs to step up and score touchdowns,” he said.

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I feel I have a better flow for the game and when critical drives need to be made and when the offense needs to step up and score touchdowns.

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— Landry Jones, quarterback

Jackson Laizure / For Transcript Photo

Landry Jones throws against Iowa State. “Sure there’s been some throws I shouldn’t have made, but I think at this point in my career, I think I’m definitely playing the best I have been,” Jones said.

48th career start • From OU 14 But Jones career can be capsulated in his three Bedlam games. In them, he’s experienced the highest of highs and the lowest lows.

He couldn’t have asked for a better start.

In 2009, Jones put together the classic caretaker performance.

On a gusty late November day, he threw for 224 yards and avoided in mistakes in the Sooners’ 27-0 victory over the Cowboys.

By 2010, the coaching staff had placed more trust in him. Riding his right arm through hot and cold spells, the Sooners rode out of Boone Pickens Stadium with a 47-41 victory.

Jones threw 468 yards and two touchdowns in the final three minutes. The heroics came after he had thrown three first-half interceptions. It was the classic gunslinger performance.

Jones went from goat to hero in the span of a couple of plays.

Then there was last season. Jones took much the blame after committing four turnovers — two interceptions and two fumbles — in a 44-10 loss to the Cowboys.

Those three games illustrate Jones’ career.

There’s been moments of greatness mixed with moments of despair.

No matter how it went Jones reacted to it the same way. He kept a straight face throughout all of it. That’s the trait the Sooners love about their quarterback. He doesn’t celebrate and he doesn’t sulk.

“I know people get on him for not being a rah-rah type of guy,” fullback Trey Millard said. “He doesn’t need to be that for this team. His confidence and coolness help us rally when things aren’t going our way.”

Whatever happens, this will make his final impression on those who’ve had a tepid feeling about him for the last four years. Jones knows that and so do his teammates.

“He’s won a lot of

games here, but he doesn’t necessarily get the positive credit he deserves,” Millard said.

Credit comes with big victories. Not too long ago ones over the Cowboys were viewed as givens.

Perhaps that changed after last season.

This is Jones’ opportunity to walk off Owen Field one last time and leave on a high note. He believes he’s played the best football of his career in the last two months.

“I think ever since Texas Tech, I’ve been playing pretty consistently and at a high level,” Jones said. “Sure there’s been some throws I shouldn’t have made, but I think at this point in my career, I think I’m definitely playing the best I have been.”

What happens in the fourth and final Bedlam game with Jones at quarterback is unpredictable. One thing is for sure, nothing that happens on the field will be a surprise. There will be many cases of deja vu.

Jones will either go out a hero or a goat.

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

OU cornerback Aaron Colvin braces for action against Iowa State. “I feel like our secondary and the rest of our defense don’t want to give up passing touchdowns or touchdowns period. We are doing so well in the secondary and we have to keep building and moving our momentum forward,” Colvin said. FACING PAGE: Mike Stoops talks defense.

BEDLAM HISTORY 1904: Oklahoma 75-0 1906: Oklahoma 2-0 1907: Oklahoma 67-0 1908: Oklahoma 18-0 1910: Oklahoma 12-0 1911: Oklahoma 22-0 1912: Oklahoma 16-0 1913: Oklahoma 7-0 1914: Oklahoma 28-6 1915: Oklahoma 26-7 1916: Oklahoma 41-7 1917: Oklahoma State 9-0 1918: Oklahoma 27-0 1919: Oklahoma 33-6 1920: Oklahoma 36-0 1921: Oklahoma 6-0 1922: Tie 3-3 1923: Oklahoma 12-0 1924: Oklahoma State 6-0 1925: Oklahoma 35-0 1926: Tie 14-14 1927: Oklahoma State 13-7 1928: Oklahoma 46-0 1929: Tie 0-0 1930: Oklahoma State 7-0 1931: Tie 0-0 1932: Oklahoma State 7-0

1933: Oklahoma State 13-0 1934: Tie 0-0 1935: Oklahoma 25-0 1936: Oklahoma 35-13 1937: Oklahoma 16-0 1938: Oklahoma 19-0 1939: Oklahoma 41-0 1940: Oklahoma 29-27 1941: Oklahoma 19-0 1942: Tie 0-0 1943: Oklahoma 22-13 1944: Oklahoma 28-6 1945: Oklahoma State 47-0 1946: Oklahoma 73-12 1947: Oklahoma 21-13 1948: Oklahoma 9-15 1949: Oklahoma 41-0 1950: Oklahoma 41-14 1951: Oklahoma 41-6 1952: Oklahoma 54-7 1953: Oklahoma 42-7 1954: Oklahoma 14-0 1955: Oklahoma 53-0 1956: Oklahoma 53-0 1957: Oklahoma 53-6 1958: Oklahoma 7-0 1959: Oklahoma 17-7

1960: Oklahoma 17-6 1961: Oklahoma 21-13 1962: Oklahoma 37-6 1963: Oklahoma 34-10 1964: Oklahoma 21-16 1965: Oklahoma State 17-16 1966: Oklahoma State 15-14 1967: Oklahoma 38-14 1968: Oklahoma 41-7 1969: Oklahoma 28-27 1970: Oklahoma 66-6 1971: Oklahoma 58-14 1972: Oklahoma 38-15 1973: Oklahoma 45-18 1974: Oklahoma 44-13 1975: Oklahoma 27-7 1976: Oklahoma State 31-24 1977: Oklahoma 61-28 1978: Oklahoma 62-7 1979: Oklahoma 38-7 1980: Oklahoma 63-14 1981: Oklahoma 27-3 1982: Oklahoma 27-9 1983: Oklahoma 21-20 1984: Oklahoma 24-14 1985: Oklahoma 13-0 1986: Oklahoma 19-0

1987: Oklahoma 29-10 1988: Oklahoma 31-28 1989: Oklahoma 37-15 1990: Oklahoma 31-17 1991: Oklahoma 21-6 1992: Tie 15-15 1993: Oklahoma 31-0 1994: Oklahoma 33-14 1995: Oklahoma State 12-0 1996: Oklahoma 27-17 1997: Oklahoma State 30-7 1998: Oklahoma State 41-26 1999: Oklahoma 44-7 2000: Oklahoma 12-7 2001: Oklahoma State 16-13 2002: Oklahoma State 38-28 2003: Oklahoma 52-9 2004: Oklahoma 38-35 2005: Oklahoma 42-14 2006: Oklahoma 27-21 2007: Oklahoma 49-17 2008: Oklahoma 61-41 2009: Oklahoma 27-0 2010: Oklahoma 47-41 2011: Oklahoma State 44-10

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OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops on the sides against Texas. “Again, I think speed, athleticism, is essential in the secondary across the board,” Stoops said.

A new twist for Bedlam

Defenses have upped the ante

By John Shinn Transcript Sports Writer

Bedlam has become one of college football’s most highly anticipated games because of its propensity for offensive fireworks from start to finish.

During the last five years, the winning team has scored an average of 45.6 points. In 2010 and 2008, the loser managed to put 41 points on the board.

However, this could be the year Bedlam becomes defensive.

The Sooners have made serious defensive strides since they last met the Cowboys. They’re back in the top 20 in total defense for the first time in three years.

However, the Sooners are not alone in raising the level of defensive play; Oklahoma State is giving up nearly 70 fewer yards a game.

There are reasons for the improvement. For one, both teams seem to be more comfortable playing against spread offenses that both teams employ as well as most of the Big 12 Conference. What works against Texas Tech one weeks has the potential to carry over week after week.

The Sooners certainly have found a better way to defend it this season.

“I think the common ground of all of that is they’re all spread. So, everyone makes you cover the field,” OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “Again, I

think speed, athleticism, is essential in the secondary across the board. There’s not a guy out there that can’t run and cover. You’re looking for very athletic safeties that can almost be corners that go to safety; that’s what you’re looking for.”

It’s worked. Through 10 games, the Sooners have allowed fewer than one passing touchdown per game. Last season, they were giving up 1.5.

“I feel like our secondary and the rest of our defense don’t want to give up passing touchdowns or touchdowns period. We are doing so well in the secondary and we have to keep building and moving our momentum forward,” OU cornerback Aaron Colvin said. “As long as we’re doing what we can as far as technique, we can keep going.”

It’s been years since the Sooners and the Cowboys conducted an old-fashioned defensive slugfest. The last one came in 2001 when OSU stunned OU 16-13 at Owen Field.

Perhaps, this will be the year the highflying offenses ground to halt and forcing punts instead of field goals turns out to be the winning edge.

Don’t count on it. This is still a game with prolific offenses on both sides. Both teams know how to score points and have done it all season.

However, Bedlam memories are filled with unexpected plays that led to unexpected scores. Defense is going to play a bigger role for OU and OSU this year.

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From Bedlam to BCS bowl prospects

OU has to finish season strong get an at-large bid

By John Shinn Transcript Sports Writer

It’s Thanksgiving weekend and eyes across the state are glued on Owen Field. Make no mistake, the magnitude of the 107th edition of Bedlam is vast.

But it isn’t quite what it has been the last few years. For only the second time in the last seven years, neither team will enter the holiday weekend with a straight shot at winning the Big 12 Conference title.

Remove the bragging rights, and what’s at stake at Owen Field on Saturday is bowl positioning.

The Sooners’ situation is simple: remain in position to get an at-large

bid to a BCS bowl game. Without a national championship and conference title, it’s the trophy for the Switzer Center that still turns heads.

“We’re absolutely excited and still have a goal of playing in a BCS game,” OU quarterback Landry Jones said. “It would be great. It would be huge for our program.”

It requires winning down the stretch. The possibilities are immense if the Sooners can pull it off.

Even if Kansas State doesn’t finish the regular season undefeated, it would still get the conference’s automatic BCS bid to the Fiesta Bowl. If it gets into

the national championship game, that kicks the door wide open for the Sooners to get into a BCS. All they have to do is be ranked in the top 14 of the BCS standings on Dec. 2 to qualify.

OU could find itself in either the Fiesta, Rose or Sugar bowls as an at-large representative.

However, a loss to Oklahoma State or in the season finale on Dec. 1 at TCU ends those BCS hopes.

Beyond the BCS bowls, the Big 12 Conference is tethered to six bowl games. The pecking order goes like this: • AT&T Cotton Bowl: Big 12 vs. SEC • Valero Alamo Bowl: Big 12

vs. Pac-12 • Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (formally the Insight Bowl): Big 12 vs. Big Ten • Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl: Big 12 vs. Pac-12 • Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas: Big 12 vs. Big Ten No. 6 • New Era Pinstripe Bowl: Big 12 vs. Big East No. 4 The Sooners and Cowboys can still slide up and down the pecking order based on how they finish the season. Bedlam is going to have a major impact on the conference standings along with the BCS standings.

Teams that finish strong always seem to improve their potential postseason destination. OU’s

Bedlam loss last season removed it from BCS contention. It managed to solidify its spot with victories in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

“In the end, you have to win, you have to win this week; that’s our job,” OU coach Bob Stoops said. “Everyone else can anticipate and project. They’re not always right. We have to keep doing what we can do to try and win this week.”

The coaching staff might not want to look ahead, but there’s a reason there will be plenty of people at Owen Field in very bright-colored sports coats.

They’re bowl reps and winning Bedlam always carries a lot of weight with them.

FACING PAGE: The Oklahoma Sooners prepare to take the field against Iowa State in this Nov. 3 photo by Jackson Laizure, for The Norman Transcript.

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Picture it: Stillwater, 1985

While much is forgotten, most remember ‘The Ice Bowl’

By Clay Horning Transcript Sports Editor

The Sooners came in No. 3 headed to the Orange Bowl. The Cowboys came in No. 17 headed for the Gator Bowl.

In the game day Nov. 30, 1985, issue of The Norman Transcript, nearly the entire front page of the sports section was dedicated to the game. In one very small box appeared a weather forecast. Rain was

expected, possibly turning into sleet during the game.

That was it.

There was no story about how weather conditions might affect the way the game was played on the field. There was no sense of the Bedlam Series about to be conducted in historically awful conditions.

Here was the headline in The Transcript the next morning: “Sooners skate past Pokes in Nanook of North Bowl.

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Clever, but it is remembered with a much shorter epithet.

“The Ice Bowl.”

OU won the game 13-0 at Oklahoma State’s Lewis Field.

For a team that would go on to win the national championship, it was no gimme. Coach Pat Jones’ Cowboys were very good, claiming All-American Thurman Thomas in the backfield, who somehow ran for 100 yards on 23 carries (a little better than OU’s Lydell Carr,

who ran for 78 yards on 24 carries).

But for all of the game’s implications, nobody remembers it for them. Nobody even remembers it as a big win on the way to OU coach Barry Switzer’s third national championship.

It is remembered, almost completely, for the conditions.

In “The History of Oklahoma Football, Part III” DVD, thenSooner coach Barry Switzer remembered, “Players had to

break the ice to get foot traction on every snap of the ball.”

On the 20-year anniversary, Oklahoma City television station KFOR produced a feature about the game. In it, Switzer explained the conditions on tape taken from the postgame locker room.

“It’s the worst conditions I’ve ever seen a football game played in,” he said.

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Most remember ‘The Ice Bowl’ of 1985 • From OU 20 Wrote Transcript sports editor Jim Weeks in the middle of his game story, “Weather conditions got so severe that the field was covered by ice before the game and then snow covered the ice by the end of the first quarter. Neither team even tried to field punts after the first quarter.”

Considering the conditions, it was one of Sooner quarterback Jamelle Holieway’s best games. A California native who’d hardly even played a game in cold weather before, Holieway ran for 51 yards on 21 carries, but more impressively completed 4 of 5 passes for 54 yards.

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Meanwhile, OSU quarterback Ronnie Williams completed just 5 of 25 passes for 32 yards.

Typically, linemen on both sides of the ball are happy to knock each other to the ground once the play begins. However, OSU’s Paul Blair remembered the weather forcing a different strategy.

“There was a whole lot of just trying to hold on,” he told KFOR in 2005. “You’re trying to block the guy and push him, but you were also trying not to fall down.”

The hero of the game was OU kicker Tim Lashar, who connected on field goals of 33 and 30 yards, breaking Uwe von Schamman’s program records of 14 field goals in a season and 30 in a career,

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by elevating his totals to 15 and 31.

On the 30-yarder, with 5:44 remaining, as Lashar drove the ball with his right foot, his body kept moving forward, his legs giving way as he slid along the ice.

His aim, though, was true.

So ended one of Bedlam’s craziest chapters.

A small crowd saw it live and in person, the weather scaring most away.

Yet, everybody remembers “The Ice Bowl.”

Editor’s note: Early forecasts for Saturday have Norman under partly cloudy skies with a 10 percent chance of rain. A high of 63 degrees and a southwest wind of 12 mph are expected, according to weather.com.

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It’s the worst conditions I’ve ever seen a football game played in.

— Barry Switzer, then coach of the Sooners

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OKLAHOMA NOTEPAD Parity has arrived? Well, there's bound to be a fight over that one. Oklahoma State was easily the better team in Stillwater last season, and this year's Bedlam may feel like a toss-up, but the Sooners still have won eight of the last nine matchups.

Nevertheless, it is the Cowboys, not the Sooners, who are the reigning Big 12 champions and the Sooners are not going to win it back this year. Barring absolute calamity, the Big 12 is Kansas State's conference this season.

Also, OSU won 12 games last season, 11 games in 2010, nine in 2009 and nine in 2008. That's 41 in four seasons.

OU, the last four seasons? 10, 12, eight and 12 for a total of 42, with two of those wins coming at the Big 12 title game, a game in which Oklahoma State has never had the opportunity to participate.

Anyway, for four seasons, your Bedlam programs have been neck and neck where victories are concerned.

Bedlam ties: There have been seven on the field: 1922 (3-3), 1926 (14-14), 1929 (0-

0; apparently, offenses crashed that year, too), 1931 (0-0); 1934 (0-0); 1942 (0-0) and 1992 (15-15), but this note is not about those kinds of ties.

The most obvious tie is the Gundy brothers, OSU head coach Mike and OU running backs coach Cale, both coaching at their alma maters, for which they are former AllBig Eight quarterbacks.

Mike joined the OSU staff as offensive coordinator under first-year head coach Les Miles in 2001 and became head coach when Miles left for LSU after the 2004 season.

Cale is one of three assistant coaches who have been on Bob Stoops staff since his 1999 Norman arrival, the other two being Jackie Shipp and Bobby Jack Wright.

Another one?

OSU defensive coordinator Bill Young has been on both sides of Bedlam, holding down the same job at OU in 1996-97.

Origin of Bedlam: "Bedlam" is defined as "a noisy, confused place or situation; state of uproar," and first came into being concerning OU an OSU athletics as a descrip-

Compiled by Clay Horning, The Norman Transcript sports editor tion of the wrestling rivalry between the two schools. Eventually, it took hold as a term describing any athletic meeting between the schools.

Still, wrestling deserves its due. Between 1928 and 1971, the NCAA wrestling crown hardly left the state of Oklahoma. The Cowboys won it an amazing 28 times, while the Sooners won it a very respectable seven times.

Who'd have thought: The Sooner with the most ground yards in a single Bedlam game did not win a Heisman Trophy, nor was it Joe Washington, Greg Pruitt, Demond Parker or Marcus Dupree. It was the underappreciated Mike Gaddis, who galloped for 274 yards in 1989.

The Sooner with the most ground touchdowns in a Bedlam game is none of the above, but Jerald Moore, in 1994.

The most tackles? Obie Moore's 19 in 1976.

Perhaps there will be an unlikely hero this time around, too.

Jerry Laizure / The Transcript

The crowd frenzy is how Bedlam got its name. This is a view of the rowdy sidelines in 2011 in Stillwater.

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OKLAHOMA SEASON RECAP

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Compiled by John Shinn, The Norman Transcript sports writer

Oklahoma 24, UTEP 7

Oklahoma 69, Florida A&M 13

Sept. 1 at Sun Bowl Stadium

Sept. 8 at Owen Field

EL PASO, Texas — Riding a dominant defensive performance and scoring a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma picked up a 24-7 season-opening victory over UTEP. The fourth-ranked Sooners’ offense struggled early in the season debut.

Tied at halftime and up just 10-7 with 15 minutes to go, the Sooners finally created a gap from the Miners by stuffing UTEP on a fake punt to set up an 18-yard touchdown pass from Landry Jones to Brannon Green midway through the fourth quarter.

The Sooners sealed it in the closing minutes, when Damien Williams burst through the right side and ran to the left pylon for a 65-yard touchdown run.

Jones threw for 222 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 21 of 36 passing while Williams had 103 yards on 10 carries.

Running back Damien Williams ran for 156 yards and four touchdowns in a recordsetting Owen Field debut, while wide receiver Kenny Stills added 120 yards receiving and a score in No. 5 Oklahoma’s 69-13 rout of Florida A&M. Williams’ rushing total set a record for the most by an OU player in his home debut, and he became only the fourth player at the school to eclipse 100 yards rushing in each of his first two games.

Sooner running backs Dominique Whaley, Roy Finch and Brennan Clay also found the end zone, while quarterback Landry Jones threw for 252 yards to help OU improve to 2-0.

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Damien Williams carries for the Sooners in the season opener against UTEP. Late in the game, Williams burst through the right side and ran to the left pylon for a 65-yard touchdown run.

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OKLAHOMA SEASON RECAP Kansas State 24, Oklahoma 19

Oklahoma 41, Texas Tech 20

Sept. 22 at Owen Field

Oct. 6 at Jones AT&T Stadium

Oklahoma’s aura of invincibility at Owen Field took a major hit after its showdown with Kansas State.

John Hubert ran for 130 yards and a touchdown, Jarell Childs scooped up a fumble and returned it for a score and No. 15 Kansas State beat the sixth-ranked Sooners, 24-19.

OU (2-1, 0-1 Big 12) held a 3-0 lead with the ball in the second quarter when a 1-yard fumble return by Kansas State’s Jarell Childs put the Wildcats (3-0, 1-0) ahead, 7-3.

OU appeared poised to retake the lead, but Blake Bell fumbled on the Kansas State 1-yard line, setting up a KState field goal. In total, three Sooners turnovers led to 17 Kansas State points.

Bell put OU back on top 13-10 with five minutes remaining in the third quarter on a 3-yard run for a touchdown, but 14 unanswered points by K-State were enough to hold on for the win.

Collin Klein picked up 228 yards of total offense and ran for the go-ahead touchdown early in the fourth quarter to jump into the Heisman Trophy race.

Landry Jones threw for 298 yards and a late touchdown.

LUBBOCK, Texas — Landry Jones threw for two touchdowns, Blake Bell ran for two more and No. 17 Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 41-20, avenging a home loss to the Red Raiders last season.

Both of Jones’ touchdown passes went for 13 yards — one each to Justin Brown and Kenny Stills. Bell scored his touchdowns from a yard out.

Javon Harris put the game out of reach midway through the third quarter when he returned an interception 46 yards for a TD to put the Sooners (3-1, 1-1) up 38-13.

The Red Raiders had their worst defensive performance this year, giving up 380 total yards after coming in ranked No. 1 in the nation.

The win was sweet for the Sooners, who lost 41-38 to the Red Raiders last season — a defeat that broke Oklahoma’s 39-game win streak at Owen Field. It was the Sooners’ first victory in Lubbock since 2003.

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Quarterback Blake Bell pushes across the goal line to score against Kansas State.

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OKLAHOMA SEASON RECAP Oklahoma 63, Texas 21

Oklahoma 52, Kansas 7

Oct. 13 in Dallas’ Cotton Bowl

Oct. 20 at Owen Field

Oklahoma smashed Texas and then went after the record books in 107th edition of the Red River Rivalry.

Damien Williams broke off a 95-yard touchdown run for the longest rush in Red River Rivalry history, Blake Bell powered his way in for four TDs and No. 13 OU beat No. 15 Texas 6321 for its third straight victory in the series.

Landry Jones threw for 321 yards and two touchdowns, and fullback Trey Millard had a career-best 119 yards receiving as the Sooners (4-1, 2-1 Big 12) added another rout to Bob Stoops’ impressive rivalry resume.

The Sooners ended up with a 677-289 advantage in total yardage, with 343 yards on the ground.

Williams and Millard delivered the back-breaking plays.

After Texas’ second of four straight three-and-outs to start the game, Williams zipped through a hole on the right side of the line and got a smashing block from receiver Kenny Stills against Quandre Diggs to clear the way for the longest run in the rivalry’s 107 games. Millard then went hurdling over Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript safety Mykkele Thompson to turn a short pass into a 73-yard Fullback Trey Millard had a career-best 119 yards gain and set up Bell’s third score as the Sooners reeled off 23 receiving in a blowout against Red River rival Texas. straight points in the second quarter.

Landry Jones threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns and No. 10 Oklahoma scored on a kickoff return and a punt return in the same game for the first time in school history while clobbering Kansas 52-7.

Justin Brown made up for a lost fumble on his previous punt return by running his next chance back 90 yards for the score. Roy Finch then opened the second half with a 100-yard runback to stretch the lead to 45-0.

The Brown-Finch combo marked the first time the Sooners (5-1, 3-1 Big 12) have had two plays at least 90 yards long in the same game.

Brown and Finch helped that total with their unique double dip. Brown provided the Sooners’ first punt-return score since Ryan Broyles did it in 2009.

Jones and the first-team offense scored on their first six possessions -- settling for Michael Hunnicutt’s 37-yard field goal on their first drive and then scoring touchdowns on the next five.

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OKLAHOMA SEASON RECAP Notre Dame 30, Oklahoma 13

Oklahoma 35, Iowa State 20

Oct. 27 at Owen Field

Nov. 3 at Jack Trice Stadium

Oklahoma’s opportunity to get back into the national championship picture was halted in the showdown between two of college football’s most tradition-rich programs.

Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson threw for 177 yards and plunged in for the decisive 1-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, to hand to the eighth-ranked Sooners a 30-13 loss.

Landry Jones threw for 356 yards for the Sooners (5-2). Wide receiver Jalen Saunders matched a school record with 15 receptions and a career-high 181 receiving yards.

An Owen Field record crowd of 86,031, the most fans ever to witness a sporting event in state history, responded to the university’s request to “stripe the stadium,” with a candy-cane look of alternating red and white sections — appropriately so with a cold snap running through Norman.

AMES, Iowa — Landry Jones threw for 405 yards and a season-high four touchdowns and No. 14 Oklahoma beat Iowa State 35-20. The win as the 145th of head coach Bob Stoops’ career, tying him with legendary coach Bud Wilkinson on the alltime list.

The Sooners (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) rolled despite an injury-riddled offense. Brennan Clay, starting in place of an injured Damien Williams, ran for a career-best 157 yards. The win was OU’s 20th straight following a defeat in the regular season.

Jones hit Kenny Stills for a 21-yard TD pass at the end of the first half and opened the third quarter with a 20-yard TD pass to Jalen Saunders to put the Sooners up 21-6. Oklahoma racked up 593 yards of offense, and put it away when Jones’ 31yard TD pass to Stills made it 35-13 with 10:59 left.

Jackson Laizure / For The Transcript

Quarterback Blake Bell scored twice against Notre Dame, with his first effort called back on a holding call. Notre Dame came to Owen Field without allowing a rushing touchdown all season. Bell ended that streak.

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OKLAHOMA SEASON RECAP Oklahoma 44, Baylor 36

Oklahoma 50, West Virginia 49

Nov. 10 at Owen Field

Nov. 17 at Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium

Bob Stoops passed Bud Wilkinson on Oklahoma’s career victory list as No. 14 Oklahoma defeated Baylor 42-34.

Landry Jones threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns, Damien Williams ran for 99 yards and two scores and OU limited Baylor to a season-low 172 yards passing in the victory.

Blake Bell provided some breathing room with his 55-yard touchdown run — the longest for an Oklahoma quarterback since Patrick Fletcher in 1998 — that made it 42-26 with 14:14 remaining.

The Bears, who entered the game with the nation’s top overall offense and top passing attack, were held more than 200 yards below their season average thanks to a stout Sooner defense.

With the score at 28-26 late in the third quarter, OU put together a 75-yard drive capped by a 17yard TD rush by Williams, then pulled ahead for good behind Bell’s long TD run one minute into the fourth.

AP Photo

West Virginia's Stedman Bailey (3) catches a pass for a touchdown as Oklahoma’s Aaron Colvin (14) attempts a tackle Saturday in Morgantown, W.Va.

MORGANTOWN, W.V. — Oklahoma’s defense laid an egg. But OU quarterback Landry Jones played the game of his life on Saturday night.

Jones was the difference in the 13th-ranked Sooners’ 50-49 victory over West Virginia.

Jones threw for 554 yards and six touchdowns, including a 5-yard slant to Kenny Stills with 24 seconds left to give the Sooners the last lead in a game that see-sawed back and forth throughout the fourth quarter.

The Sooners and Mountaineers combined for 1,440 yards of total offense with West Virginia accumulating 778 of it. It was the most yards a team has ever racked up against the Sooners.

Because of Jones, who set the program record passing yards in a game, the Sooners managed to improve to 8-2 and 6-1 in the Big 12 Conference.

The Mountaineers dropped to 5-5 and 2-5.

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BEDLAM MATCHUPS COACHING

OU didn’t just get outplayed in the 2011 Bedlam game; it got outreached as well. Will it happen again today?

Doubtful.

This will be OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops first Mike crack at the Stoops Cowboys since he was head coach at Arizona last season. The Sooners’ defense seems to play its best when it has revenge on its mind. Stoops has it on his and that should show today.

Compiled by John Shinn, The Norman Transcript sports writer

PA S S I N G G A M E

RUNNING GAME

Landry Jones will be making his 47th career start start today and fourth in the Bedlam rivalry. That kind of experience is invaluable in a game where emotions are boiling. The experience is something the Cowboys’ Clint Chelf and Wes Lunt haven’t had time to accumulate.

Receivers, running backs and offensive line are close. The experience at quarterback is too vast to overlook

The Sooners revamped their running game this season. Damien Williams has been OU’s most productive back since 2008 and Brennan Clay is a very capable backup. Blake Bell gives OU’s running game an exclamation point most teams lack. But the best ball carrier in Bedlam is OSU’s Joseph Randle. He’s been a workhorse all season and expect him to carry the load again today.

RUN DEFENSE

SPECIAL TEAMS

I N TA N G I B L E S

The days of OU selling out to stop the run have ended. The bend-but-don’t-break style they’ve played has made vulnerable to plodding running games. The Cowboys, however, have remained stedfast in stopping the run and are holding teams to less than 4.0 yards per carry. The gap isn’t enormous, but the Cowboys’ scheme has been better against the run this season.

The best player in this game could very well be OSU kicker/punter Quinn Sharp, who has one of the best legs in college football. However, the Sooners come close to matching him with kicker Michael Hunnicutt (the Big 12’s most accurate kicker) and Tress Way (one of the league’s best punter). However, the Sooners return and cover units are at the top of the league in virtually every special teams category. Always take the unit over one player.

Owen Field has lost some luster since the Cowboys’ last visit in 2009. The Sooners have lost three of their eight games at home. Nonethess, you have to go all the way back to 2001 — OSU’s last victory in Norman — to find a competitive Bedlam game at Owen Field. The Sooners have outscored the Cowboys 170-40 in the last four Bedlam games in Norman. It’s a tough row for OSU to hoe.

Jones Total Opp.

STATS Editor’s note: These statistics were current through Nov. 10, and do not reflect the OSU-Texas Tech game of Nov. 17.

Williams Clay Whaley Bell Millard Finch Stills Shepard Team

Att 113 61 39 46 21 6 2 1 6

(Nine games) Rushing Yds Y/C TD 687 6.1 9 398 6.5 5 243 6.2 1 162 3.5 10 129 6.1 0 61 10.2 1 22 11.0 0 13 13.0 0 -34 -5.7 0

Lg 95 41 18 55 20 17 13 13 0

Y/G 76.3 44.2 40.5 18.0 14.3 6.8 2.4 1.4 -6.8

12 -97 -8.1 0 5 -10.8 307 1584 5.2 26 95 176.0 335 1395 4.2 14 71 155.0 Passing Eff C-A-I Pct Yds. TD Jones 144.2 226-345-7 65.5 2691 18 Bell 122.9 8-13-0 61.5 95 0 Total 143.4 234-358-7 65.4 2786 18 Opp. 92.7 140-281-9 49.8 1532 3 Receiving No. Yds. Avg. TD Lg A/G Stills 54 682 12.6 6 68 75.8 Brown 41 537 13.1 4 46 59.7 Saunders 29 373 12.9 0 35 74.6 Shepard 28 387 13.8 3 31 43.0 Millard 21 261 12.4 2 73 29.0 Williams 18 195 10.8 0 38 21.7 Metoyer 16 130 8.1 1 27 16.2 Clay 10 53 5.3 1 14 5.9 Neal 4 62 15.5 0 25 8.9 Whaley 4 14 3.5 0 13 2.3 Green 3 45 15.0 1 18 5.0 Bester 3 29 9.7 0 13 3.2 Finch 2 6 3.0 0 5 0.7 Musil 1 12 12.0 0 12 6.0 Total 234 2786 11.9 18 73 309.6 Opp. 140 1532 10.9 3 75 170.2 Tackles (leaders) S A T Loss Sack

Jefferson 54 Harris 32 Wort 17 Hurst 31 Nelson 18 Colvin 24 Ndulue 17 Washington15 Shannon 15 Lynn 18 McFarland 10 King 9 Franklin 14

25 22 24 8 19 13 18 16 9 6 11 12 5

79 54 41 39 37 37 35 31 24 24 21 21 19

2.5-6 1.0-4 3.5-19 1.0-2 3.5-13 0.5-1 5.0-10 2.0-8 3.0-13 1.5-2 5.0-27 2.0-9 1.0-8

0.5-3 1.0-11 1.0-2 1.0-8 4.0-9 0.5-2 2.0-12 3.0-23 2.5-8 1.0-8

TE A M NUMBERS SCORING Points per game FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing Penalty RUSHING YARDAGE Yards gained rushing Yards lost rushing

OU 358 39.8 230 81 142 7 1584 1771 187

Opp. 176 19.6 156 68 74 14 1395 1550 155

Rushing Attempts 307 335 Average Per Rush 5.2 4.2 Average Per Game 176.0 155.0 TDs Rushing 26 14 PASSING YARDAGE 2786 1532 C-A-I 234-358-7140-281-9 Average per pass 7.8 5.5 Average per catch 11.9 10.9 Average per game 309.6 170.2 TDs Passing 18 3

TOTAL OFFENSE 4370 Total Plays 665 Average per play 6.6 Average per game 485.6 3rd-DOWN Conversions 62-119 Percentage 52% 4th-DOWN Conversions 4-6 Percentage 67%

2927 616 4.8 325.2 61-147 41% 4-10 40%

PA S S D E F E N S E The Sooners have made enormous leaps defending the pass since these teams last meet. Hard to argue against the best secondary in the Big 12 calling Owen Field home.

The Sooners have only allowed XXXXXXX passing touchdowns this season. The Cowboys have give up xxxxxxxxxx. There’s a large gap that OU should be able to exploit.

2012 Bedlam

OKLAHOMA ROSTER 1

Tony Jefferson

DB 5-11 212 Jr.

2

Julian Wilson

DB 6-2 191 So.

Chula Vista, Calif.

Moore

3

Sterling Shepard

WR 5-10 188 Fr.

4

Kenny Stills

5

Joseph Ibiloye

6 7

21 Tom Wort

LB 6-0 237 Jr.

39 Nick Hodgson

K

78 Kyle Marrs

OL 6-5 320 Fr.

21 Austin Brown

WR 6-5 202 R-Fr.

Buffalo, Wyo.

40 P.L. Lindley

LB 6-2 240 R-Fr.

R. Rock, Tx

79 Daryl Williams

OL 6-6 299 So.

Lake Dallas, Tx

Oklahoma City

22 Roy Finch

RB 5-7 175 Jr.

Niceville, Fla.

41 Eric Striker

LB 6-0 198 Fr.

Seffner, Fla.

80 Jordan Phillips

DT 6-6 318 R-Fr.

Towanda, Kan.

WR 6-1 190 Jr.

Encinitas, Calif.

22 Cortez Johnson

DB 6-2 191 So.

NewOrleans, La.

42 Jesse Paulsen

DB 6-0 193 Sr.

Albuquerque, N.M.

LB 6-3 218 Sr.

Garland, Tx

23 Kass Everett

DB 5-10 180 Jr.

Philadelphia, Pa.

43 Patrick O’Hara

K

Demontre Hurst

DB 5-10 183 Sr.

Lancaster, Tx

23 Danzel Williams

RB 5-8 189 R-Fr.

Corey Nelson

LB 6-1 219 Jr.

Dallas, Tx

24 Brennan Clay

RB 5-11 201 Jr.

8

Dominique Whaley RB 5-11 204 Sr.

Lawton

8

Joe Powell

9

Gabe Lynn

9

Trevor Knight

DE 6-1 250 So.

Fort Worth

10 Blake Bell

QB 6-6 254 So.

Wichita,Kan.

11 R.J. Washington

DE 6-3 256 Sr.

Fort Worth

10 Rashod Favors

New Braunfels, TX

OU 29

Arlington, Tx

WR 6-1 185 Fr.

Topeka, Kan.

81 Sam Grant

TE 6-7 234 Fr. North Royalton, Ohio

LB 6-2 236 Sr.

Wichita, Kan.

81 Lacolton Bester

WR 6-3 205 Jr.

Scooba, Miss.

LB 6-1 196 So.

Claremore

82 Brannon Green

TE 6-2 250 Jr.

Altamont, Kan.

46 Eric Doughtie

DB 6-0 197 Fr.

Sugarland, Tx

84 Mike Onuoha

DE 6-5 235 Fr.

Edmond

47 Alex Christiensen

FB 6-3 243 Fr.

Edmond

84 Don Caudill

WR 6-1 194 Jr.

Muldrow

DB 5-10 184 Jr.

Orange, Tx

LB 6-1 212 So.

Marshall, Tx

DB 6-0 199 Jr.

Tulsa

25 David Smith

RB 5-10 193 Fr.

Midlothian, Ill.

QB 6-1 197 Fr.

San Antonio

26 Zack Sanchez

DB 5-11 170 Fr.

Keller, Tx

26 Damien Williams

RB 6-0 208 Jr.

San Diego

27 Gary Simon

DB 6-1 180 Fr.

St. Petersburg, Fla.

28 Alex Ross

RB 6-1 204 Fr.

Jenks

29 Grant Bothun

WR 5-11 183 Fr.

Rowlett, Tx

29 Quentin Hayes

DB 6-0 181 So.

Lancaster, Tx

30 Javon Harris

DB 5-11 206 Sr.

Lawton

47 Eric Hosek

K

Sherman, Tx

85 Geneo Grissom

TE 6-4 247 So.

48 Aaron Ripkowski

FB 6-1 260 So.

5-10 150 R-Fr.

Dayton, Ohio

86 Brandon Kitchens

WR 5-11 161 Fr.

Jenks

49 David Driskill

FB 6-1 239 So.

Oklahoma City

87 Derrick Bradley

WR 5-8 173 Sr.

Houston, Tx

50 Austin Woods

OL 6-4 293 Jr.

88 Taylor McNamara

TE 6-5 234 Fr.

San Diego, Calif.

89 Connor Knight

TE 6-4 212 Fr.

San Antonio,

Garland, Tx

89 Chase Buck

TE 6-3 231 Jr.

Edmond

Euless, Tx

90 David King

DE 6-5 286 Sr.

Houston

91 Charles Tapper

DE 6-4 265 Fr.

Baltimore

52 John-Philip Hughes OL 6-4 250 R-Fr. 53 Casey Walker

DT 6-2 309 Sr.

54 Nila Kasitati

OL 6-4 309 R-Fr.

56 Ty Darlington

OL 6-3 266 Fr.

Rockwall, Tx Tulsa

12 Landry Jones

QB 6-4 218 Sr.

Artesia, N.M.

13 Durron Neal

WR 5-11 201 Fr.

St. Louis, Mo.

14 Jalen Saunders

WR 5-9 160 Jr.

Elk Grove, Calif.

31 Daniel Franklin

LB 6-2 224 Sr.

Mount Airy, Ga.

59 Nathan Hughes

OL 6-6 248 R-Fr.

14 Aaron Colvin

DB 6-0 181 Jr.

Owasso

32 Marshall Musil

FB 6-2 241 Jr.

La Crosse, Kan.

64 Gabe Ikard

OL 6-3 288 Jr.

15 Drew Allen

QB 6-5 226 Jr.

San Antonio

33 Trey Millard

FB 6-2 256 Jr.

Columbia, Mo.

67 Robert Hollis

OL 6-4 333 R-Fr.

15 Lamar Harris

DB 6-1 186 Sr.

Gilmer, Tx

34 Daniel Brooks

RB 5-8 163 Fr.

Port Lavaca, Tx

68 Bronson Irwin

OL 6-5 307 Jr.

16 Jaz Reynolds

WR 6-2 198 Jr.

Houston, Tx

35 Julian Winters

RB 5-11 169 So.

Sacramento, Calif.

69 Lane Johnson

OL 6-7 303 Sr.

Groveton, Tx

17 Trey Metoyer

WR 6-1 190 Fr.

Whitehouse, Tx

36 Joel Ossom

FB 5-9 235 Sr.

Denton, Tx

71 Tyrus Thompson

OL 6-5 303 So.

18 Michael Hunnicutt

K

Richardson, Tx

36 Tress Way

P

6-1 215 Sr.

Tulsa

72 Derek Farniok

OL 6-9 319 R-Fr.

18 Jalen Saunders

WR 5-9 160 Jr.

Elk Grove, Calif.

37 Dylan Seibert

P

6-3 215 R-Fr.

Tulsa

74 Adam Shead

OL 6-4 307 So.

Cedar Hill, Tx

19 Justin Brown

WR 6-3 209 Sr.

Wilmington, Del.

38 Brandon Young

DB 5-10 173 So.

75 Tyler Evans

OL 6-5 315 Sr.

Strafford, Mo.

20 Frank Shannon

LB 6-1 230 R-Fr.

38 Jack Steed

K

6-0 173 So.

Dallas

6-5 200 Fr.

Frisco, Tx Katy, Tx

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80 Derrick Woods

6-0 192 Sr.

44 Jaydan Bird

24 Trey Franks

11 Kendal Thompson QB 6-1 184 R-Fr.

San Antonio, Tx

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77 Marquis Anderson DT 6-3 265 R-Fr.

Apopka, Fla.

Hutchinson, Kan.

Spring, Tx

92 Stacy McGee

DT 6-4 299 Sr.

Muskogee

Oklahoma City

93 Jordan Wade

DT 6-4 290 Fr.

Round Rock, Tx

Tulsa

94 Torrea Peterson

DT 6-3 277 So.

San Antonio

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95 Damon Williams

DT 6-3 305 So.

Irving, Tx

96 Mitch Tate

DE 6-4 238 R-Fr.

Bartlesville

Pflugerville, Tx Sioux Falls, S.D.

Cibolo, Tx

97 Jamarkus McFarland DT 6-2 288 Sr. 98 Chuka Ndulue

DE 6-3 256 So.

99 Chaz Nelson

DE 6-2 239 Jr.

Lufkin, Tx Dallas Columbus, Ohio

OU Two-deep

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s

Strong Safety 7, Shamiel Gary, 6-0, 210 23, Zack Craig, 6-1, 200

Cornerback 19, Brodrick Brown, 5-8, 185 1, Kevin Peterson, 5-11, 170

Defensive Tackle 99, Calvin Barnett, 6-2, 299 98, Davidell Collins, 6-5, 267

Defensive Tackle 91, James Castleman, 6-2, 296 94, Anthony Rogers, 6-3, 293

Deep Snapper 50, Austin Woods, 6-4, 293 (placekicks) 31, Daniel Franklin, 6-2, 224 (punts)

Kick Returner 22, Roy Finch, 5-7, 175 24, Brennan Clay, 5-11, 201

Right Tackle 79, Darryl Williams, 6-6, 209 72, Derek Farniok, 6-9, 319

Right Guard 68, Bronson Irwin, 6-5, 307 50, Austin Woods, 6-4, 293

Quarterback 12, Landry Jones, 6-4, 218 10, Blake Bell, 6-6, 254

Holder 36, Tress Way, 6-1, 215 Punt Returner 19, Justin Brown, 6-3, 209

Center 64, Gabe Ikard, 6-3, 288 56, Ty Darlington, 6-3, 266

Left Guard 74, Adam Shead, 6-4, 307 50, Austin Woods, 6-4, 293

Left Tackle 69, Lane Johnson, 6-7, 303 71, Tyrus Thompson, 6-5, 303

Slot Receiver 18, Jalen Saunders, 5-9, 160 3, Sterling Shepard, 5-10, 188

Wide Receiver 4, Kenny Stills, 6-1, 1890 17, Trey Metoyer, 6-1, 190

OU Specialists Punter 36, Tress Way, 6-1, 215 Place Kicker 18, Michael Hunnicutt, 6-0, 173

Note: When OU removes a tight end or receiver from its formation Tailback 26, Damien Williams, 6-0, 208 3, Brennan Clay, 5-11, 201

Fullback 33, Trey Millard, 6-2, 256 48, Aaron Ripkowski, 6-1, 260

Wide Receiver 19, Justin Brown, 6-3, 209 13, Durron Neal, 5-11, 201

Defensive End 50, Jamie Blatnick, 6-3, 265, Sr. 96, Ryan Robinson, 6-4, 242, Jr.

Defensive End 89, Nigel Nicholas, 6-3, 269 80, Cooper Bassett, 6-5, 270

Tight End 82, Brannon Green, 6-2, 250

Cornerback 4, Justin Gilbert, 6-0, 194 6, Ashton Lampkin, 5-11, 175

Strongside Linebacker 11, Shaun Lewis, 5-11, 225 27, Lyndell Johnson, 6-3, 210

Free Safety 8, Daytawion Lowe, 5-11, 205 20, Larry Stephens, 5-10, 182

Middle Linebacker 45, Caleb Lavey, 6-3, 240 52, Ryan Simmons, 6-0, 238

Weakside Linebacker 37, Alex Elkins, 6-3, 230 42, Demarcus Sherod, 6-0, 220

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