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Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield gets tackled by a Texas defender in the Cotton Bowl on Oct. 10, 2015. The underdog Longhorns upset OU 24-17.
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Mayfield’s introduction to the Red River Showdown ended with a seven-point upset loss to a downtrodden Longhorn team. He was nearly magical again in OU’s fifth outing of the season, however. OU offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley drew up a play-action pass on second down and goal with a
little over five minutes left in the third quarter. Sophomore Samaje Perine stalled one Texas defender while Mayfield rolled out to his right and pinpointed a perfect pass to sophomore fullback Dimitri Flowers in the end zone. SEE SHOWDOWN PAGE 6
Tuition freeze possible with Celebrations abound Boren’s penny tax initiative to welcome holiday Polls show the idea is favored by voters from both parties PAGE JONES
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OU President David Boren said that if his recently announced penny tax initiative passes in November 2016, he could have the funds to freeze tuition rates. Boren’s penny tax would raise approximately $615 million specifically for Oklahoma education in one year. Of that sum, higher education in Oklahoma would receive $125 million, while the majority of the revenue would be put towards K-12 teacher salary raises. This money would contribute enough funds to OU to freeze tuition and fees from increasing, Boren said. “I would say we would freeze them for at least a couple of years, maybe longer depending upon how the budget impact is,” Boren said, “But I would say that I could foresee us freezing tuition and fees for at least two years.” Boren said his group, Oklahoma’s Children — Our Future, will file the initiative with the Oklahoma State Supreme Court in late October. Though Boren said he could use his position as university president in hopes of garnering student support for the initiative, he will file the initiative as a private citizen. B o r e n ’s p e n n y t a x i n i t i a tive would add a one cent tax to
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amended reflects a more welcoming environment on campus. The signing will launch the day’s events by solidifying the endorsement of the student body for this holiday, Byron said in the release. BRIANNA SIMS News Reporter “SGA is really excited about the @briannana18 signing ceremony and about the S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t day’s activities in general. This will Association is preparing to cel- be a really great learning opportuebrate the inaugural Indigenous nity for the students, and I know Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12, with the Native American students are native students sharing their excited to share their culture with their communiculture with the ty,” Byron said. larger university The events community. SGA President “In light of Boren’s w i l l c o n t i n u e throughout the A l e x By ro n a n proclamation of day around camnounced that the official celebration Indigenous Peoples’ pus, becoming a collaborative will be today, after Day on Oct. 5, a effort with differthe Indigenous Peoples’ Day reso- lot of departments ent departments lution is signed. wanted to show their and the Native comThe event is insupport, including American munities on our tended to create contributing their campus, Byron discussion between students own events or their said. “In light of about the history of Columbus Day, own way to promote B o r e n ’s p r o c Byron said in an the discussion of l a m a t i o n o f Indigenous email announcenative cultures.” Peoples’ Day on ment about the Oct. 5, a lot of deevent. ALEX BYRON, partments wantThe event beSGA PRESIDENT ed to show their gins with a signing support, includof the resolution at 9 a.m. in the South Oval’s Unity ing contributing their own events or their own way to promote the Garden, Byron said. The legislation will be signed discussion of native cultures,” today due to Undergraduate Byron said. Student Congress’ amending the language of the resolution to better reflect the aspirations Brianna Sims Brianna.M.Sims-1@ou.edu of the authors of the resolution, Indigenize OU. The language
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Oklahoma’s existing sales tax through a change to the state constitution. All the revenue from the tax would go directly to education funding, and none would go toward administrative spending. “Polling data demonstrates that a large majority of likely voters in both parties favor a sales tax,” Boren said. The initiative is planned to be bipartisan with elements that both parties can support, Boren said. After the initiative is filed with the courts, they have 90 days to determine whether it’s legal or not. If the courts declare the initiative legal, Boren said they have to get 135,000 signatures. However, he wants even more signatures than that. “But to be safe, we’re going to try to get 200,000 because people can come in for a month and try to
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knock signatures off… So you want to try to have some extra signatures,” Boren said. Boren said the general election ballot is the best chance the tax will have to pass. As far as the rest of the $615.5 million goes, $378 million will be dedicated to raise teacher salaries, $50 million would go to locally controlled reforms, $50 million would go to early childhood programs and $12.5 million would go to the vocational and technical school systems. Andrew Clark contributed to this report. Page Jones page.c.jones-1@ou.edu
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Local politicos volunteering for campaigns GOP candidates receiving support around Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Whether they’re local fixers or high-profile appointments, Oklahoma politicians are playing a role in presidential campaigns this year. State Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City, was one of the first state lawmakers to publicly support a contender, and one of the first to take a supporting role in Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign for the White House. Holt is the state chairman of the Oklahoma campaign. In a state that doesn’t have many people and doesn’t vote very early in the GOP primary, Holt’s duties are strictly volunteer ; when Rubio visited Oklahoma City, Holt personally drove him around. “It’s highly unlikely that any of the campaigns will have paid staff here or really expend any amount of money,� Holt told The Journal Record. “They depend on volunteers like me to be that point of contact.� Having someone on the ground like Holt, or state Sen. Ralph Shortey for Donald Trump, eases t h e bu rd e n o f nat i o na l campaigns. “So they find people like me and get the word out there so Oklahomans who want to help Marco Rubio will get in touch with me first,� Holt said. “It’s a manpower issue.� Shortey, R-Oklahoma City, reached out to Trump’s campaign to see if his endorsement should have been coordinated. Instead, he got the responsibility of coordinating the needs of Trump’s campaign in Oklahoma. Shortey suggested Trump’s visit to the State Fair and helped plan it, but he never got to meet the billionaire businessman. “I didn’t have any aspirations,� Shortey said. “I think he’s the right guy; I want him to win and I want him to have as much support in Oklahoma as possible.� As the presidential candidates spar in public, local politicos will probably avoid the rumble. “I consider (Holt) a friend,� Shortey said. “He and I have talked several times about things not even related to presidential politics since then. There’s no more ribbing than there usually is between us.� Holt said he’s apt to tease
people if their candidate has a bad week. It’s all good-natured, though, he said. “ I t h i n k w e ’ l l h av e some fun with that,� Holt said. A spokeswoman for presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Terry Ne e s e, a n O k l a h o m a City businesswoman, is the campaign’s national finance chairwoman. State Sen. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma City, recently came out in support of Fiorina, too. O n t h e D e m o c rat i c side, the only know n surrogate in Oklahoma is state Sen. Kay Floyd, D-Oklahoma City, who is helping the Hillar y Clinton campaign. In the coming weeks, Ho l t s a i d h e e x p e c t s more campaigns to name Oklahoma leadership teams. ___ Information from: The Journal Record, http:// www.journalrecord.com Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Alpha Kappa Delta Phi holds the Breast Fest on the South Oval on Oct. 21, 2014. The sorority will put on the event from October 19-21 to raise money for the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, their international philanthropy.
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An OU Asian sorority will be holding its own breast cancer awareness philanthropy event next week in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Alpha Kappa Delta Phi will put on Breast Fest from O c t o b e r 1 9 - 2 1 t o ra i s e money for the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, aKDPhi’s international philanthropy. On Oct. 14 they had their benefit night at Chipotle to start their events, according to Jenny Chau, the sorority’s vice president of service for the fall semester. Local businesses donate prizes and food that will be raffled off or given away throughout the week. Some of the biggest prizes that will be raffled off include a
hoverboard, a GoPro and a Polaroid camera, said Chau. aKDPhi pairs up with the Women’s Outreach Center for a breast cancer informational for one night to promote awareness of both genders being at possible risk for breast cancer. Throughout Breast Fest there will be events such as Pie-A-Prof, where the professor who fundraises the most will get pied in the South Oval. They will also hold a Pink Ribbon Breakfast or Pink Ribbon Lunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 21 where they will give away food that has been donated. Breast Fest’s biggest event is the male pageant, Mr. Pink. It is the last event of the week, and any male students on campus can participate in fundraising and spreading breast cancer awareness to earn points for a better slot in the pageant. “Mr. Pink is very interesting. It’s kind of like Delta Gamma’s Anchorman but
there are things like bra pong and a catwalk... it’s all very silly‌ that’s how we garner interest, because it’s so weird,â€? said Lillian Trinh, the sorority’s sponsorship chair. Industrial assistance engineering senior Julius Ta competed in Mr. Pink twice, and won the second time, earning the title of Mr. Pink 2012. He had a fun experience meeting people from different organizations and getting to know the girls of aKDPhi, but he also said he was glad he was able to spread breast cancer awareness. When Ta was younger, he had a moment of revelation when he saw a doctor after someone made a comment about how one of his pecs was bigger than the other. “Before I didn’t even think much about it, because (as a guy), I felt like I didn’t have to worry about (getting breast cancer). That experience got me more aware,
so for guys who didn’t have a similar experience, they might not even know ever (about their risk for getting breast cancer),� Ta said. Fo r T r i n h, s p re a d i n g breast cancer awareness is meaningful as well, because her mother is a breast cancer survivor today. “My sister was involved in (aKDPhi) before I was, so it’s like a continuation of a family theme to support breast cancer awareness,� Trinh said. Since minorities are also at an increased risk for breast cancer, she said she thinks it’s a great thing that a minority group puts so much effort into raising breast cancer awareness, she said. Last year aKDPhi raised over $7,000 during Breast Fest, the most money any chapter has ever raised, so this year they hope to top that record breaking number and raise even more, Chau said.
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Studio opens doors downtown New design center projects to include affordable housing TANNER OSBORNE News Reporter @tannerosbear
The OU College of Architecture hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and celebration for the big opening, which was attended by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, OU President David Boren and several other key staff and faculty members associated with the project. The studio is to be shared among the five branches of the college: architecture, landscape architecture, regional and city planning, interior design and construction science, according to a
press release from the college of architecture. The studio is the second of its kind, the first being in Tulsa. The college of architecture hopes to take the knowledge and experience gained from the Tulsa lab and apply them to the Oklahoma City lab. “Creating livable urban space is a key part of the mission of the college,” President Boren said in the release. “The new lab will help students with Oklahoma City and private organizations
“The design center is a great chance for students to get hands-on design experience.” KYLE HARPER, OU PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
reaching out to new groups of students. “The center will give us a chance to teach students in the city that we didn’t use to have the reach to educate. I do a lot of work in the city already, so this helps with that,” said Jourdan. She explained the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency was a co-funder with the project and that some of the future work in the center will include assessing needs for affordable housing problems in the city. OU Provost and senior vice president Kyle Harper was also in attendance at the ribbon cutting ceremony. “The design center is a great chance for students to get hands-on design experience right in the middle one of the most vibrant, exciting and creative urban areas in the country. The president and first lady have done a great job of making OU a leading center for the promotion of quality communities, and it is wonderful to be at an institution with that kind of PHOTO PROVIDED community-oriented vision,” OU faculty and staff, along with Oklahoma City, mayor Mick Cornett cut the ribbon to open the College of Architecture’s doors to its new Harper said. Community Design Center on Sept. 23. The studio is the second of its kind, the first being in Tulsa. The ribbon was cut O U ’s C o l l e g e o f Architecture opened its Community Design Center on Film Row in downtown Oklahoma City in an effort to expand to new groups of students and improve quality of life in the city.
to improve the quality of life in the city and metropolitan area.” Dawn Jourdan, director of the Division of City and Regional Planning in the college of architecture, said the center will help with
by Mayor Mick Cornett, along with Harper, Dean of Students Clarke Stroud and several local faculty from OU’s College of Architecture. “This collaboration with the City of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma stretches back many years. We are proud to ensure that the future of our great city will be developed and made better by the work of students at this facility, right in the heart of downtown,” Cornett said in the press release. “The hard work and dedication of the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture has made this happen, and I applaud them for all their efforts.” Harper said the opening of the center represented an opportunity to strengthen the bond between OU and Oklahoma City. “At the opening, it was great to hear Mayor Cornett talk about the importance of OU to the success of Oklahoma City, and for us to be able to share how much the university benefits from having such a great city right down the street. The design center is a way of making the connections between the two even deeper,” Harper said. Tanner Osborne Tannerosborne84@yahoo.com
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The OU Sooner ID Card may be experiencing changes next year with the addition of a list of contacts to ensure students are aware of the resources on campus. The Student Government Association is leading research and promotion into printing five important numbers of resources around campus that students might need. These changes would be implemented next semester on the 2016 Sooner ID Card. “We’re going to have five emergency numbers on the back of the card. It’s going to be the OUPD non-emergency number, SafeWalk number, Goddard number, OU Counseling Services, and then 911,” said Jack Schaefer, Student Government Association’s assistant director in the department of student organizations. These emergency numbers are useful and important for students to have but may not be easy to access at all times, Schaefer said. “They’re just things people probably don’t have saved in their phones. If
you have a situation going on, and you need to contact OUPD, you don’t want to have to go to the OUPD website, look it up, decipher which number is appropriate to call, non-emergency or emergency. It’s great to just have it with you at all times,” Schaefer said. The Sooner Card is something every student has to have, Schaefer said. SGA President Alex Byron said the reason for adding these is so that all students, mainly freshman, transfer and international students will be more informed of the resources locally and on campus. “You might think, why add 911? But some international students are unaware of this emergency number,” Byron said. The front design of the card wouldn’t change with this SGA initiative; however, completely new cards would be ordered for the next semester. “They’re supposed to be ordering a new set of cards, anyway, since the 125th anniversary logo is on the front of the current card. They’re removing the logo, so this would just be adding on to the change SGA wants to make,” Schaefer said. Schaefer and Byron hope students will utilize more of what the campus has to offer by giving the student
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Brand manager Tyler Webb and card operations manager Colin Germany work in the Sooner Card office in the Union on Oct. 7. SGA plans on placing five phone numbers on the back of Sooner Cards to provide students with resources.
body better access to these resources. Some students don’t go to the doctor or switch pharmacies because they are unaware of Goddard’s services, Byron said. Currently, the Sooner Card is the official identification card for students, faculty and staff of OU, according to the Sooner Card office website. Sooner Cards give students access to many campus buildings and residence
halls, the ability to attend athletic events, access to the Huston Huffman Fitness Center, entry into computer labs, control over one’s Sooner Sense account and the ability to check out books in the library, according to the website. “ Th e S o o n e r Ca rd i s something every student is going to have, so we thought that it was a good idea and wanted to push up with it,” Schaefer said. These changes will appear
on the Sooner Card next semester when the new cards arrive. Currently, students may get a new Sooner Card for $20, but Schaefer believes the Sooner Card Office might give a discount to students who get the newly designed card. Brianna Sims Brianna.M.Sims-1@ou.edu
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There are a lot of misconceptions about stalking. More often than not, people associate stalking with an overly obsessed individual constantly following around a person of his or her desire. But in reality, stalking can take many different forms and have just as serious effects. Trust me, I know — I’ve experienced it firsthand. I never expected that my stalker would be a college professor who didn’t even teach any of my classes, especially after I had already graduated. But that’s exactly what happened. We’ll call him Bruce. It was June 2014, about a month after I got my associate degree, when I got the first private message from Bruce on Facebook. “If you’re ever bored or have some free time from your busy journalistic career, send me a text or a call. *******. I miss watching films with like-minded thinkers.� A moment later, he added, “As friends, by the way. My life is too complicated for relationships lol.� I didn’t think anything of this, really. It was inappropriate, considering he was in his mid-to-late 40s, and I was 21, but nothing out of the ordinary. I didn’t reply to Bruce’s m e s s a g e, t h i n k i n g t h i s would give him the hint that I wasn’t interested. But that didn’t work. Only a few days later, I received another Facebook message. This time, it included a picture of the movie “Garden State� on Blu-ray. “You want to see with me this week?� the message began. “Wed, Thursday, or Friday? We can dance to the Shins. You can report on my new life of starting over. What would be my headline? If no come over, I understand. But I wasn’t going to move through my life without asking. :) I won’t ask again if you’re not interested. K?� I w a s c o n f u s e d . W hy would he think I’d want to do that with him? I figured since ignoring his last message didn’t work, I’d let him know what was up this time. I simply replied, “Thanks, but this isn’t something I’m interested in.� The weirdness didn’t end, though. He told me he had a “token of appreciation� for me, but he needed my email to give it to me. I wasn’t interested in whatever it was, but for the sake of getting him to leave me alone, I gave him my professional email. He sent me a $10 Amazon
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gift card. I never used it. A few days later, I got another message from Bruce. “ There is this larger American view believing we are self-made, but it’s an egocentric view,� the message began. “Beauty and truth lies within us, but it’s the same ‘view’ in everyone. Our soul is basically the same, and in its absolute perfection, there is pure generosity toward our fellow human beings. I offer you my generosity without attachment. If you ever need to talk or a helping hand, you have many friends. One day, I hope to help you. It won’t make any sense now or in the next five years, but we are all angels waiting to release ourselves from human form. That’s all I can really say for now without sounding like a crazy person, which I am not. Have a day blessed with richness and texture in everything you see, touch, and smell!� What the hell? I didn’t reply. About six hours later, I got another message — about 500 words of some plan he had to help students pay off loans they borrow during school and how he wanted me to help him get it going. That was it. “You need to stop messaging me,� I told him. He reacted in anger. “ O k a y ,� h e s a i d . “ I thought I had some ideas. Nevermind. I apologize. I’ll remove you from Facebook as well.� He got defensive. “FYI. I message ALL my Facebook friends. You got the wrong idea about my intentions. But fine. Enjoy your life. Done now.� I was freaked out but relieved that he would leave me alone. But that wasn’t the case. The very next morning, he asked if we could “wipe the slate clean,� and said he wasn’t good at making friends. I blocked him on all social media. But soon after, I had to re-block him when he made a new Twitter account.
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Shortly thereafter, I decided to Google Bruce just to see what would pop up. What I found was disturbing. Bruce had a blog, and on this blog were several posts about me. Only he gave me a pseudonym — Sheila. He blogged about how he had screwed up and lost a friend, citing that he was on new medication for the problems he was experiencing from a separation from his wife. He had kids, by the way, and one of them was about my age. He wrote a poem about me. I can’t remember exactly how it went, but it was about Paris — the city, that is. But I knew what it was really about. The first line went somet h i n g l i k e , “ I ’v e n e v e r climbed your eiffel tower, or roamed your lovely streets ...� During lunch with a friend I used to work with at the college, I discovered even more disturbing news. Bruce had emailed my friend trying to get in touch with me. He admitted that he had made a mistake, causing our “friendship� to be tarnished, and said he just wanted to talk to me. She simply told him that h e n e e d e d t o l e av e m e alone. I then was informed
that I wasn’t the only person he had creeped out — my friend had received sexually charged messages from him a few years prior, and he only stopped when she threatened to tell his wife. I never heard anything else from Bruce, but I was left with feelings of disgust and violation. I wasn’t his friend, nor did I ever lead him to believe we were in any way. Though the interaction lasted a few weeks, it was enough to make me scared. I didn’t know this man very well, and I didn’t know what he would do next, if anything. What if he showed up to my workplace? What if he showed up at my house? I was lucky that he stopped after a while, but what if he hadn’t? Others have not been so lucky. Stalking can be subtle or severe. It can be in person or online. It can be a variety of things. But one thing is for sure: no person has the right to make someone else feel that way, and no one should have to deal with that.
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After then-No. 10 Oklahoma’s upset at the hands of Texas, this season feels a bit like the last. The Sooners have cruised through their first four games each of the last two seasons, including victories over West Virginia, Tulsa and Tennessee twice. In both campaigns, OU lost its fifth game to an underdog in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. Oklahoma’s loss to TCU took the wheels off the Sooner Schooner in 2014. The squad finished 4-4 in its remaining games, lowlighted by a Bedlam choke in overtime and a 40-6 drubbing by Clemson in the Russell Athletic Bowl. This season, at least while the Sooners were exclusively winning, players and coaches alike praised OU’s grit and toughness. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops even called his team’s comeback, overtime victory at Tennessee — a game in which the Sooners trailed 17-3 with 8:20 remaining in regulation — his favorite of his career. “You know why? Because of the mental toughness for our guys to have hung around 17 points down in that environment,” Stoops said. “Everybody just kept fighting — kept playing. You know, mental toughness and discipline to keep playing hard in the faith that things will work.” The story was much different when the Sooners took on Clemson to close the 2014 slate. There wasn’t any fight. Oklahoma’s sideline looked dead. The whole game had a ‘What’s the point?’ feel to it. That squad can’t really be blamed, either. It entered the season ranked No. 4 in the country and was not only thinking national title but perhaps a Heisman Trophy for quarterback Trevor Knight as well. After the TCU game, OU fell by a single point — the
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Senior wide receiver Sterling Shepard walks the line as he is pursued by Longhorn defenders on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl. The Sooners dropped nine spots in the AP Poll.
result of several kicking blunders — to Kansas State, was absolutely blown out at home by Baylor because of poor coaching and lost to Oklahoma State because of another coaching error. Very few football teams are going to want to keep fighting after a season like that. It wasn’t as if Oklahoma gave up in the Cotton Bowl Saturday, either. Even as the Sooners went down 14-0, 17-3 and again 24-10, there was a vague feeling that they were still in the game. Perhaps it stemmed from the Tennessee comeback or Baker Mayfield’s ability to draw blood from stones, but by no means did Texas seal a victory until the final minute of play. And had it not been for a poor last possession for
OU’s offensive line, who knows what could have happened? “Last year was last year,” cornerback Zack Sanchez said after the Tennessee game. “This is a new team. We’re going to go out every week, and you’re going to have to kill us to beat us, because we’re not going to stop no matter what.” Well, Sanchez and the Sooners have the opportunity to prove their grit over the final eight games of the regular season. The loss to Texas looks bad. The Longhorns were 1-4 heading into the game. OU was favored by 17 points in some places. There was even talk of firing second-year Texas coach Charlie Strong before Saturday. It’s going to take a lot for
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It was Oklahoma’s first touchdown of the day, and it injected a little bit of life into a team that was unable to find any offensive rhythm for a majority of the contest. “We kept stopping ours e l v e s a l l g a m e l o n g ,” Mayfield said. “We didn’t execute early on. Plays that we did spring open and bust loose — those are just basic plays. It was nothing unusual or special to their game plan.” The play itself was muchneeded fuel to OU’s failed comeback effort. The scoring play lost its value to Flowers, though, as Texas walked away with the Golden Hat. Flowers’ touchdown reception was Mayfield’s lone passing score of the game.
The junior quarterback finished with 211 yards passing and completed 20-of-28 attempts. Mayfield took care of the ball and didn’t throw an interception, but OU allowed six sacks and converted just three times on 12 thirddown plays. The offensive headaches culminated in another rough day for Oklahoma’s air raid attack. But this time, it cost OU its undefeated record. “(Mayfield) was good,” Riley said. “We got to get him settled in quicker. That’s my job, and all of our job. But he hung in there, that’s what our kids do.” Mayfield didn’t think Texas did anything special to stop the Sooners. Oklahoma’s offense experienced trouble adjusting to Texas’ defensive scheme. Coach Charlie Strong ’s Longhorns mixed up their blitz packages, and by the time OU caught on, Mayfield
said it was a little bit too late. Oklahoma had an opportunity in the fourth quarter to tie the game. However, it all came down to lack of execution for the Sooners. “We were ready to play a barnburner,” Riley said. “That’s what this game is. We were ready for it. The guys stayed with it the whole way. We gave ourselves a chance to win there at the end. With six minutes, we got the ball back, and we didn’t get it done.” Flowers thought Mayfield was ready to go. The fullback said his quarterback treated it as any other game, and his confidence was there. Mayfield suffered his first loss as Oklahoma’s starter, however. Oklahoma will try to redeem itself at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Kansas State. Joe Buettner joebuet@ou.edu
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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield scrambles as a Longhorn defender runs after him at the Cotton Bowl Saturday Oct. 10. Mayfield’s lone passing score of the game was to sophomore fullback Dimitri Flowers.
Offensive line exposed as run game stalls Sooners stimied at line of scrimmage in Saturday’s game SPENSER DAVIS Football Reporter @Davis_Spenser
DALLAS — Oklahoma’s offense posted just 17 points en route to the team’s first loss of the season against Texas Saturday. The offensive line was a primary reason for many of the Sooners’ struggles, allowing Texas to sack quarterback Baker Mayfield six times. Running back Samaje Perine was afforded just 10 carries, and Joe Mixon received just six. According to offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, the lack of a running game had a lot to do with Oklahoma’s struggles up front. “When you get behind the chains, you get limited on what you can call,” Riley said. “For the first three quarters of the game, we TYLER WOODWARD/THE DAILY were behind the chains so Sophomore running back Samaje Perine carries the ball down the field and is stopped by Texas senior much. Should I have given linebacker Peter Jinkens Saturday Oct. 10. The Sooners lost against the Longhorns 24-17. (the running backs) the
ball more? Yeah, probably. There’s a lot of things I could have done better.” Oklahoma was frequently behind the chains on first and second down. The Sooners’ average thirddown distance was 9.8 yards per attempt and resulted in just three conversions on 12 tries. “We just didn’t execute early,” center Ty Darlington said. “They beat us physically in the run game. We came in with the mentality that we needed to run the ball and control the line of scrimmage, and we obviously didn’t do that.” The offensive line had its struggles, but OU didn’t perform well in any area, Riley said. Jarvis Baxter dropped a pass. Sterling Shepard fell down. Dede Westbrook appeared to drop a touchdown pass that forced the Sooners to kick a field goal in the red zone. “It wasn’t all on the offensive line,” Riley reiterated. “It was a combination of bad play calls, a combination of missed blitz pickups and
“When you get behind the chains, you get limited on what you can call.” LINCOLN RILEY, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
protections by the running backs.” “We didn’t play well in any facet.” Of the Sooners’ 12 thirddown opportunities, only two were short yardage. When the Sooners were forced to throw the ball on third and long, the Texas defense had little trouble getting to Mayfield. “We just physically got beat,” Riley said. “They beat us up front, they beat us in coverage, and we didn’t establish the run like we wanted to. Give them credit.” Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu
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Junior linebacker Jordan Evans tries to tackle Longhorns freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday Oct. 10. The Sooners walked away with a loss, their first loss of the season.
Defense unable to contain Texas’ Heard Quarterback uses legs, not arm to propel Longhorns BRADY VARDEMAN
Assistant Sports Editor @BradyVardeman
DALLAS — Texas quarterback Jerrod Heard didn’t have a particularly notable day passing, finishing with eight completions and 53 yards at the Cotton Bowl. Where the freshman hit OU Saturday was the ground, where he gained 115 yards on 21 carries in the Longhorns’ 24-17 Red River upset. “ He’s a great player,” Oklahoma linebacker P.L. Lindley said. “He made some great plays on his feet.
We knew what he was going to do. We knew what he was capable of.” Lindley was thrusted into the starting role after a left ankle injury kept Devante Bond sidelined for the game. Bond has accounted for 18 tackles and two sacks this season. However, his most valuable contribution has been his ability to limit mobile quarterbacks, much like he did against Tennessee in OU’s comeback victory. Saturday’s game took a Tennessee-like turn when the Sooners mounted a comeback march. Several big plays for Texas, including an 81-yard rush from D’Onta Foreman, stifled the effort, however. “We did feel like we were
“Players play. Coaches coach. He was giving us calls, and we should be able to play anything that he gives us.” DOMINIQUE ALEXANDER, JUNIOR LINEBACKER
going to win,” linebacker Dominique Alexander said. “Just the momentum we had, and we felt like we were beginning to stop the offense from running the ball. And then that big run came, and it hurt, but we tried to fight back. It just didn’t come out our way today.” Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said his unit’s biggest issue Saturday was tackling. “All that quar terback run — that takes a lot of preparation and, you know,
positioning, pacing the ball,” he said. “I thought we overran the ball a lot throughout the course of the day.” After Texas recovered an Alex Ross fumble on a kickoff, UTs backup quarterback, Tyrone Swoopes, entered the game at the goal line in an attempt to power the ball in. He wasn’t successful on his first try, so the Longhorns lined up for a second. This time, Swoopes faked the run, popped up and completed a touchdown pass to put Texas
up 14-0. “They hadn’t shown it, but I knew it was there because we had just stopped the run,” Stoops said. “They went to the same formation. They weren’t going to run it again. We had them outnumbered. Just didn’t have our guys prepared, ready for the play. “I knew it, but our players didn’t know it. And that’s unfortunate. I talked about it before in pregame today. When they got in that set, I knew it was coming. I didn’t have them, obviously,
prepared enough.” However, Alexander disagreed with his coordinator, citing a high-intensity week of practice. “I feel like we were prepared coming into this game” he said. “And all we need to do is execute. Missed tackles, that’s not a coaching thing. That’s something that us players got to do. “Players play. Coaches coach. He was giving us calls, and we should be able to play anything that he gives us.” Brady Vardeman bradyvardeman@gmail.com