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NO. 5 OKLAHOMA 65, NO. 2 TEXAS TECH 21
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NORMAN, Okla. - Make way for a Sooners surge.
San Bradford and Oklahoma are on their way up in the national championship race, and Texas Tech sure came down with a mighty fall.
Bradford threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns, and DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown combined to run for five more scores as the fifth- ranked Sooners brought an unceremonious end to No. 2 Texas Tech’s run toward perfection in a 65-21 blowout Saturday night.
The question now is this: Did the Sooners ( 10- 1, 6- 1 Big 12) do enough to make up for that loss to Texas?
The Longhorns have held a trump card since the annual Red River Rivalry game in October, having beaten Oklahoma 45- 35 on a neutral field at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
But the Sooners came up with as resounding a statement as they could by stif ling Graham Harrell, who came into Norman as the Heisman Trophy favorite but might have relinquished that title to Bradford.
“ It wasn’t easy,” Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. “ They’re a great team. They really are.”
It sure looked easy.
The Red Raiders ( 10-1, 6-1) fell into a three-way tie atop the Big 12 South with Texas and Oklahoma, with only one week left in the regular season. If the three finished tied, the BCS standings would determine which team plays No. 12 Missouri in the Big 12 championship game in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 6.
So the Bowl Championship Series controversy could come early this season, a week before the pairings are even set.
It’s not over yet, though. There’s still the matter of the Bedlam rivalry, and this time it’s Oklahoma’s turn to go on the road to face No. 11 Oklahoma State. The Longhorns will face their in- state rival, too, and will need to break a twogame losing streak against Texas A& M on Thanksgiving Day.
Texas Tech finishes its regular season against Baylor, and could still sneak into the Big 12 title game with an Oklahoma State upset.
Oklahoma will have to deal with that next week. This week was all about dominance.
The suddenly stingy Sooners held Tech scoreless on five straight possessions for the first time this season, and got to Harrell — who’d been sacked only five times all season — on backto- back plays in the first quarter while the nation’s highest- scoring offense kept on clicking.
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