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Oklahoma Sooners at Texas Tech Red Raiders

  Oklahoma 56 --   Texas Tech 25

Game Time: 11/22/2003 at 2:30 PM
ABC
Location: Lubbock, TX
Attendance: 53,135
Opp Coach: Mike Leach
Weather at Game Time
Temperature: 73°F
Humidity: 16%
Pressure: 29.53 in
Visibility: 10 mile(s)
Wind: 31 mph gusts to 38 mph
Conditions: Mostly cloudy

*Game notes and/or stats from soonersports.com
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot
Oklahoma 14 21 7 14 56
Texas Tech 3 7 8 7 25

Scoring Summary

First QuarterOUTTU
TTU09:20Keith Toogood 31 yd field goal03
OU07:06Travis Wilson 28 yd pass from Jason White (Trey DiCarlo kick)73
OU03:31Mark Clayton 14 yd pass from Jason White (Trey DiCarlo kick)143
Second QuarterOUTTU
TTU05:43Wes Welker 5 yd pass from B J Symons (Keith Toogood kick)1410
OU02:45Brandon Jones 27 yd pass from Jason White (Trey DiCarlo kick)2110
OU01:41Kejuan Jones 2 yd run (Trey DiCarlo kick)2810
OU00:18Kejuan Jones 1 yd run (Trey DiCarlo kick)3510
Third QuarterOUTTU
OU08:29Kejuan Jones 1 yd run (Trey DiCarlo kick)4210
TTU06:48Johnnie Mack 1 yd pass (2 pt conv)4218
Fourth QuarterOUTTU
TTU14:02Taurean Henderson 1 yd run (Keith Toogood kick)4225
OU06:33Kejuan Jones 1 yd run (Trey DiCarlo kick)4925
OU03:11Kejuan Jones 77 yd pass from Jason White (Trey DiCarlo kick)5625

Team Stats

  OU TTU
Total First Downs 16   23  
    Rushing 3   10  
    Passing 13   13  
    Penalties 0   0  
    3rd Down Plays 8 of 15   6 of 15  
    4th Down Plays 2 of 2   2 of 4  
Total Yards 472   359  
    Total Plays / Ave 68 - 6.9   81 - 4.4  
Rushing Yards 78   129  
    Plays / Ave 36 - 2.2   27 - 4.8  
    Fumbles / Lost 2 - 2   1 - 0  
Passing Yards 394   230  
    Catches/Attempts 22 of 32   31 of 54  
    Ave Yards 12.3   4.3  
    Interceptions Thrown 5   0  
Sacks by / Yards 3 - 27   0 - 0  
Interceptions / Yards 0 - 145   5 - 0  
Punts / Ave Yards 4 - 41   4 - 49.8  
Kickoff Returns / Yards 2 - 33   4 - 34  
Punt Retuns / Yards 1 - 0   2 - -1  
Penalties / Yards 5 - 40   3 - 21  
Time of Possession 31:30   28:30  

Player Stats

Rushing

Name Carr Yds TDs
Kejuan Jones22834
Renaldo Works8120
Jason White4-260
Donta Hickson1100

Rushing

Name Carr Yds TDs
Taurean Henderson12541
Johnnie Mack5361
B J Symons5260
Wes Welker4160
Carlos Frands1-30

Passing

Name Compl Att Yds TDs Int
Jason White223239440

Passing

Name Compl Att Yds TDs Int
B J Symons315323015
Mickey Peters01000

Receiving

Name Catch Yds TDs
Wes Welker8461
Nehemiah Glover7630
Mickey Peters6520
Taurean Henderson400
Carlos Francis3270
Cody Fuller1240
Jarrett Hicks1190
Loliki Bongo-Wanga1-10

Kick Returns

Name Ret Yds Long TDs
Jejuan Rankins129290
Antonio Perkins1440

Kick Returns

Name Ret Yds Long TDs
Johnnie Mack225140
Vincent Meeks1900
Nehemiah Glover1000

Punt Returns

Name Ret Yds Long TDs
Eric Bassey1000

Punt Returns

Name Ret Yds Long TDs
Wes Welker2-100

Punting

Name Kicks Ave Long Yds
Blake Ferguson441600

Punting

Name Kicks Ave Long Yds
Alex Reyes449.8670

Interceptions

Name Ints Yds Long TDs
Brodney Pool22800
Derrick Strait19700
Brandon Everage11100
Gayron Allen1900

Interceptions

Name Ints Yds Long TDs
No statistics for this category
Recap

AP Recap

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- It was billed as a showdown between the nation's top-ranked offense against the stingiest defense.

B.J. Symons and Texas Tech never had a chance.

Jason White threw for 394 yards and four touchdowns, Kejuan Jones scored five TDs and Oklahoma's defense intercepted five of Symons' passes, keeping the top-ranked Sooners on track for a berth in the national championship game with a 56-25 victory Saturday.

"Sometimes I thought we were able to confuse him with our coverages," Oklahoma cornerback Derrick Strait said of Symons. "We knew it was going to be a long day of work. It's a game where it's up to you to try to stop them."

The Sooners (12-0, 8-0 Big 12) finished off its 10th unbeaten regular season in 65 years and need only to win the Big 12 title game on Dec. 6 in Kansas City to assure a Sugar Bowl bid.

Oklahoma, which last went unbeaten during its national championship season in 2000, has won 13 straight games -- the longest current streak in Division I-A.

Tech (7-5, 4-4) entered the game as the nation's top offense by more than 80 yards, and Symons was poised to break Ty Detmer's 13-year-old NCAA Division I-A single-season record for passing yards.

Oklahoma hadn't allowed a touchdown in three straight games and boasted the nation's top-scoring offense.

An intriguing matchup on paper turned into yet another Sooners' rout.

Whether it was the swirling West Texas wind or Oklahoma's relentless pass rush, Tech couldn't keep pace with the high-scoring Sooners, who surpassed the 50-point mark for a school-record seventh time this season.

Oklahoma co-defensive coordinator Mike Stoops, who's rumored to be front-runner for the head coaching job at Arizona, put the clamps on Tech's pass-happy offense for the fourth-straight year.

Symons broke Detmer's mark in the second quarter, but finished with a season-low 230 yards on 31-of-53 passing. The 6-foot-1 senior, hobbled by a knee injury, threw 10 interceptions in his final two home games.

"He, along with 12 other people failed to make routine plays," Tech coach Mike Leach said. "Apparently he wasn't coached well enough to do that, at least not this week."

Texas Tech has been held to an average of 16 points and 293 yards in four straight losses against the Sooners, well below its averages of 36 points and 465 yards over that four-year span.

"Not everyone can run the zone as effectively as Oklahoma," Symons said. "They run the zone to perfection. If everyone could run zone against us like OU, they probably would."

Midway through the second quarter, Symons set the Division I mark on a 15-yard completion to Nehemiah Glover that set up a 5-yard touchdown pass to Wes Welker three plays later.

The Red Raiders trailed 14-10, the crowd of 53,135 was buzzing over the potential for a huge upset and Symons had finally found his groove.

From then on, little else went right for Symons or Tech.

Oklahoma scored three touchdowns -- two following Symons interceptions -- in less than 21/2 minutes to turn the game into yet another rout for the Sooners.

White threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Jones to give the Sooners a 21-10 lead with 2:45 left in the half.

Then Symons was intercepted on consecutive plays deep in his own territory, with each turnover followed by Kejuan Jones touchdown runs to give Oklahoma a 35-10 halftime lead.

"Those turnovers were huge," White said. "Anytime you don't have to go very far to get in the end zone, it's great. (The defense) really came up with some big plays right before halftime."

On Tech's first possession of the third quarter, the Red Raiders marched down the field on a 13-play drive before facing fourth-and-9 from the 13.

Symons was then picked off in the end zone by Strait, who zig-zagged his way through would-be tacklers for a 97-yard return down to the Tech 3.

"We probably did get a little greedy at times," Symons said. "You can always second guess."

A few plays later, Jones rushed for his third touchdown of the day.

Tech, however, got off to a surprisingly fast start against Oklahoma.

The Sooners were forced to punt on its opening possession, and the ball got caught up in the wind gusts swooping through Jones SBC Stadium, going out of bounds at the Oklahoma 45.

Tech went up 3-0 on Keith Toogood's 31-yard field goal about six minutes into the game, only the second time the Sooners have trailed this season.

But Oklahoma responded with an 80-yard, seven-play drive capped by White's 28-yard touchdown pass to Travis Wilson.

On their next possession, the Sooners extended their lead to 14-3 on Clayton's 14-yard over-the-shoulder catch from White.

This season, Oklahoma beat its five Big 12 South foes -- Texas, Texas A&M, Tech, Baylor and Oklahoma State -- by a combined score of 291-50.






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