The game where we could do no wrong

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

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http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=233120201


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgg1wuXXe8k


Texas A&M had more penalty yards (63) than offensive yards (54) and more punts (12) than first downs (3), none in the second half


The top-ranked Sooners scored touchdowns on 10 of their first 11 offensive possession


“It was an odd situation to be in,” Stoops said. “I believe in being decent to people.”


It was Oklahoma’s most lopsided victory since a 77-0 win over Missouri in 1986 and was A&M’s worst loss in 108 years of football.

I can't find the image of the drive chart (which is hilarious all unto it self).

[VA Sooner]

I hope to reproduce the results in 4 weeks...

[A Sooner in Texas]

I hope to reproduce the results in 4 weeks...

Just please pick better music.

[SoonerMarkVA]

Boy, I wish we'd used P. Thompson as a starter the way we did as a backup. I don't remember that at all, but he looked awesome. Really nice dual-threat action there.

[BajaOklahoma]

Good times.

[SicEmBaylor]

This game is one of my favorite things to talk about.

What is even more awesome is that in the game before this, they blew us out with a huge lopsided score. Some Baylor fans were complaining and the TexAgs response was that it's the other team's job to stop you from scoring and that Fran was the classiest coach best fanbase yadda yadda yadda.

Fast forward a week to them getting blown out and TexAgs was full of threads abut how classless Stoops was for running up the score. :D God I hate Ags.

[Wishboned]

I remember Mike Lupica blowing a gasket over this game. Even though he didn't watch it.

I seem to remember several horrible reviews of his books being posted on Amazon...even though the reviewers never read them.

:)

[sooneron]

I reviewed his book...

[MyT Oklahoma]

So who won and what was the score? <SMILES>

Just kidding of course unless some Aggie trolls ever read this thread.

[FirstandGoal]

I remember Mike Lupica blowing a gasket over this game. Even though he didn't watch it.

I seem to remember several horrible reviews of his books being posted on Amazon...even though the reviewers never read them.

:)

Heh, I remember when the SF filters wouldn't let us use the L word.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

You cannot stop Donta Hickson, you can only hope to contain him.

[Jmorales22]

What I remember is that a store on campus corner was giving a discount based on the margin of victory. That Sunday they had to give a 77% off discount. I don't think they've run the promotion since :)

[badger]

Fast forward a week to them getting blown out and TexAgs was full of threads abut how classless Stoops was for running up the score. :D God I hate Ags.
Proof that much like most of the national media, Ags also left the game or stopped watching midway through and just checked the final score that night/next day.

Stoops and Fran Fran agreed to a running clock that would only stop on timeouts during the second half.

Stoops was (VIVIDLY! and probably annoyingly to the players) instructing from the sidelines to fair catch EVERY aggie punt and to NOT enter the endzone.

OU was taking knees in the redzone at the begining of the fourth quarter.

This was one of many games where eventual Heisman Jason White had to sit out most of the second half due to the scoreboard.

Purple Drank Fatty celebrating a tackle when they were down 77-0.

Trey DiCarlo might have gotten benched later that season and never kicked for us again, but he'll hold a record in the Switzer Center that may stand forever: Most extra points in a single game (11)

[SicEmBaylor]

What I remember is that a store on campus corner was giving a discount based on the margin of victory. That Sunday they had to give a 77% off discount. I don't think they've run the promotion since :)

It was a pizza place...possibly Hideaway.

[soonertodd]

It was a pizza place...possibly Hideaway.

it was,i remember getting awesome deals back then when ou was routing people at home. 3-4 bucks for a loaded large pizza

[Jason White's Third Knee]

Just please pick better music.


I was thinking the exact same thing.

[SoonerObsession]

Ahhh...black cleats. I know it's silly, but I like that look better than white cleats.

[SoonerShay]

The most amazing thing about this game was there was that aTm only had 1 turnover. Usually when you see a score this lopsided there are always multiple turnovers that turned into quick easy scores. They had 1 fumble that made the score 77 - 0.

I had been in Cali for 1 year, had to buy the game on gameplan and had a 104 degree temperature at the time. I even remember being nervous because they had just beat us the year before. There was a ton of hype about Reggie McNeal and how he torched us in 02. Kind of the same thing with Mizzou that year and Brad Smith.

During the game I couldn't stop laughing hysterically, easily the worst beatdown I have ever watched.

[DCsooner22]

Did they ever cross the 50 yard line? I have a vague recollection that they never did...

[Wishboned]

Did they ever cross the 50 yard line? I have a vague recollection that they never did...

They didn't even cross the 40 yard line.


NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma might have gotten the whole hundred had coach Bob Stoops not been so generous.

The top-ranked Sooners scored touchdowns on 10 of their first 11 offensive possessions and their defense didn't allow a touchdown for a second straight week in a 77-0 rout of Texas A&M on Saturday.

All of the Sooners' points came in the first three quarters and they were 3 yards away from another touchdown midway through the fourth. But Stoops called four straight runs into the middle of the line -- Oklahoma's offensive line all but fell to the ground -- to keep the score from getting even more lopsided.

"It was an odd situation to be in," Stoops said. "I believe in being decent to people."

The Sooners (10-0, 6-0 Big 12) exacted a brutal revenge against the team that derailed their national title hopes in a 30-26 upset last season, remaining on the fast track to the Big 12 title and the national championship game -- the Sugar Bowl.

The win also put the wraps on a Sooners' payback tour that included last week's 52-9 win over Oklahoma State, the only other team to defeat them last season. Oklahoma scored more than 50 points for a school-record sixth time, a feat that would have impressed even Barry Switzer, who used to boast about "hanging half-a-hundred" on people.

"They kicked us last year, and we knew they were a good team," Oklahoma defensive lineman Dusty Dvoracek said. "We usually don't let people get us twice."

It was Oklahoma's most lopsided victory since a 77-0 win over Missouri in 1986 and was A&M's worst loss in 108 years of football. The margin of victory set a Big 12 record and the Sooners tied another conference mark for points scored in a game.

In a season full of blowouts and impressive wins, the Sooners established a standard of dominance with this latest victory.

Jason White tied a school record with five touchdown passes -- in the first half -- as Oklahoma scored touchdowns on all but one of its possessions in the first three quarters. The Sooners got their final score of the day when cornerback Derrick Strait scooped up a fumble and returned it 17 yards to the end zone late in the third quarter.

The Sooners plugged reserves into the game and still kept churning up yards -- they averaged 7.8 yards a play -- and, in the shadow of A&M's goal line, finally resorted to a series of dives into the heart of the Aggies' defense.

The crowd of 83,461 booed lustily when several A&M defenders celebrated after stuffing Oklahoma running back Donta Hickson on fourth down.

"We're not sitting here thumping our chests at all," Stoops said. "That's not our style and that's not for us to do."

The 77 points and 636 yards of offense were both the most in Stoops' five years in Norman.

White completed his first 15 passes and finished 16-of-18 for 263 yards. Mark Clayton caught seven passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns, extending his own single-season record for touchdowns to 12.

Hickson ran for 131 yards and a touchdown, Kejuan Jones rushed for 120 and two scores and reserve quarterback Paul Thompson added 79 yards rushing and two touchdowns.

White and most of Oklahoma's offensive starters spent much of the second half on the sideline with their helmets off.

Meanwhile, the Sooners' defense put together one of its most dominant performances since the Switzer era.

Texas A&M had more penalty yards (63) than offensive yards (54) and more punts (12) than first downs (3), none in the second half.

The Aggies (4-6, 2-4) didn't even cross their own 40 all game.

"They were fast last year, and they are fast this year," said quarterback Reggie McNeal, who threw four touchdown passes in A&M's upset of Oklahoma last season. "I guess they had a year to learn how to play against us."

Dennis Franchione, who nearly engineered an upset of Oklahoma in Norman last season when he was at Alabama, suffered the worst loss of his 21-year head coaching career. He spent most of the chilly, drizzly afternoon stalking up and down the sidelines, rarely looking up from his clipboard.

If Saturday is any indication, A&M looks destined to have its first losing season since 1982. The Aggies were clearly overmatched against the faster, stronger Sooners -- they probably couldn't have won even if they'd had the 12th man on the field.

"They played well and we couldn't get anything going," Franchione said. "That's a bad combination. We just didn't have any answers today. No matter what we tried it didn't seem to work."

The Aggies are 1-11 against No. 1 teams, with the lone victory coming against Oklahoma last year.

Oklahoma's win doesn't bode well for Baylor, which visits Norman next week. The Bears lost 73-10 to A&M earlier this season.

The Sooners have defeated three Big 12 South Division opponents -- Texas, Oklahoma State and A&M -- by a combined score of 194-22.


Texas A&M Drive Summaries
START QTR POSS. YARD PLAYS YARDS RESULT
15:00 1 00:12 TA&M 20 3 3 Punt
11:40 1 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
11:40 1 01:40 TA&M 20 5 17 Punt
04:16 1 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
04:10 1 00:50 TA&M 20 3 6 Punt
12:42 2 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
12:42 2 02:33 TA&M 20 5 19 Punt
06:59 2 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
06:52 2 00:18 TA&M 26 3 -2 Punt
05:05 2 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
05:05 2 00:10 TA&M 20 3 -8 Punt
02:46 2 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
02:46 2 00:45 TA&M 20 3 2 Punt
00:31 2 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
00:31 2 00:00 TA&M 20 1 2 Rush
13:39 3 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
13:39 3 01:54 TA&M 20 3 7 Punt
08:35 3 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
08:35 3 00:25 TA&M 20 3 4 Punt
02:13 3 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
02:06 3 00:00 TA&M 10 2 6 Fumble
01:58 3 00:00 OKLA 0 1 0 Kickoff
01:50 3 00:55 TA&M 17 3 1 Punt
05:51 4 02:21 TA&M 8 3 5 Punt

[DCsooner22]

Wow... okay. That's even better than I remember!