Oklahoma, Texas Tech combine for FBS-record 1708 yards in slugfest

“Really elated with the way the offense played”. Look for him to light up Tech’s horrendous defense and for OU to keep the Red Raiders in check after WVU held Kliff Kingsbury’s offense to just 17 points a week ago.

Whoever watched this four-hour, 10-minute marathon class deserved at least three math credits toward their bachelor’s degree. Center Erick Wren, guards Ben Powers and Dru Samia and tackles Orlando Brown and Bobby Evans have allowed only one sack in the last two games, and have paved the way for 680 rushing yards the last three games.

In a statistical oddity, both teams finished with 854 yards in total offense.

Mahomes set an NCAA record for his total offensive yards and almost tied the NCAA pass attempts record with 88, just one shy of the record.

Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II broke a number of records, but it wasn’t enough to upset Oklahoma.

Most total yards by two players – 1,383 by Mahomes and OU quarterback Baker Mayfield (564). Montell Cozart is completing 61.8 percent of his passes for 831 yards, seven touchdowns and six interceptions.

Of all the extraordinary offensive feats Saturday night, the rarest was Texas Tech’s third-down conversion rate – 20 of 25.

With the Sooners clinging to a 30-24 lead at intermission, Mayfield warned his teammates what was about to transpire in the second half. The game itself wasn’t about Mayfield at all. And, yes, he noticed. The college football odds for the game have the Sooners favored by a couple of touchdowns to pick up the win.

Symons finished 2003 with 5,976 yards through the air and on the ground.

Mixon said he felt fine after the game. “Exhausted as well, not having his usual mate Samaje (Perine) to rotate with, but still turned it on”, OU coach Bob Stoops said during his teleconference.

Joe Mixon carved up the Tech defense with 263 yards and two TD’s, the running back added a 56 yard receiving touchdown to add on to a huge night. Texas Tech is giving up about 205 yards rushing per game. He seemed to let his adrenaline get the better of him earlier this season against Houston and Ohio State, and it cost the Sooners badly. Last week he had his second-lowest passing yard total this season (305). They had nine on the season entering the game. Mayfield just brushed it off and said it was fun. “So, all those guys up front with Alex Dalton and all the starters were really the players of the game with protection, run blocking, all of that really played well, and needed to because obviously, the defense was not almost good enough in the way we played”. “I was just trying to score as many times as I can to help them out”.

OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops wasn’t almost as forgiving of his defense’s shortcomings. We knew that those guys were so young that a lot of things were going to be happening to them – a lot of game speed reps that your couldn’t simulate in practice. It’s unacceptable. We thought we were making some improvements.

“We’ve got to re-evaluate a lot of the things we’re doing”.

Like most teams in the Big 12, Oklahoma has used Kansas as a punching bag over the years, which includes outscoring the Jayhawks 106-14 in the last two meetings. For the Red Raiders, it means one more game that could possibly make them bowl eligible. The junior will play in Lubbock for the first time since 2013 when he played in eight games (seven starts) as a freshman walk-on at Texas Tech before transferring to OU. “(There are) definitely throws in the first (half) we’d like to have back. In the three other Big 12 games Saturday, the teams combined for 133 first downs.

The Longhorns return to Gregory Gym on Wednesday to take on the Oklahoma Sooners. The Sooner signal caller will have a giant, bull’s eye on his chest Saturday night on Fox TV but must not ‘press.’ Both Mayfield and OU OC Lincoln Riley are both former walk on QB’s at Tech.