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The Norman TranscriptGame Day: Dec. 3, 2011

Norman: Home of The University of Oklahoma

Loss to Baylor scuttles OU’s hopes for the national title,OU 6

Column: Clay Horning still sees significance in Bedlamdespite season’s setbacks, OU 10

No matter the score, Bedlam is still remembered as animportant game each season, OU 12

The best and worst of Bedlam, OU 14

Bedlam notebook, OU 17

The Big 12 only thought it retired the conference titlegame last year, OU 19

Stats, OU 20

The season in review, OU 21-31

INDEX

Photo by Jackson Laizure / Getty Images

OU’s Roy Finch tries to evade OSU defenders during Bedlam,Nov. 27, 2010, at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.

ON THE COVER

When you’re able to do something your entire life that you’ve loved and you’reable to get paid to do it, it’s hard to let go.

— Bob Barry Sr.

By John ShinnTranscript Sports Writer

The 106th edition of Bedlamappears to have everything a fancould desire.

National championship implica-tions, Heisman Trophy implica-tions, Big 12 Conference title on theline. There will, however, be onehuge absence.

For the first time in 50 years, BobBarry Sr., won’t be perched highabove Boone Pickens Stadium norhis voice heard on radios through-out the state.

Barry retired as the play-by-playvoice of Sooner football and men’sbasketball in March. But his deathon Oct. 29 at the age of 80 has leftthe rivalry with a huge void.

Barry called Sooner footballgames for 33 seasons. His careerstarted in 1961 as the personalchoice of legendary OU coach BudWilkinson to call the Sooner games.What some new to the rivalry eitherforget or didn’t know was Barryspent 17 years (1973-90) calling theCowboys’ games.

“Every morning he’d get up andwas thankful he was doing play-by-play for OU and the same thingwhen he worked for OSU,” saidMichael Dean, who was Barry’sproducer and engineer on radiobroadcasts during the final 20 yearsof his career.

It was why Barry’s death wasmourned in households throughoutthe state. Didn’t matter which sideof the rivalry allegiances fell. Barrywas part of it.

He called the games of HeismanTrophy winners from both schools,OU’s Steve Owens (1969), JasonWhite (2004) and Sam Bradford(2008) and OSU’s Barry Sanders(1988).

“Bob Barry was a very close

friend of our family and a truelegend in the state of Oklahoma,”Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundysaid. “He always had a smile and agreat sense of humor.”

Gundy would know. Barry calledthe Cowboys’ game when Gundywas OSU’s quarterback from 1986-89.

Ironically, the era of OU footballhe missed out on spanned all oflegendary coach Barry Switzer’stenure.

“Bob and I didn’t have a profes-sional experience, but we had asocial experience here in Norman,”Switzer said after Barry’s funeral. “Igot to know Bob extremely well. …Truly, he was a legend in sportsannouncing and admired byeveryone, and he’s a good person.More importantly, that’s what I

think of Bob. He was a good man, agood guy.”

That will be remembered as theSooners and Cowboys prepare tomeet in what has set up to be thebiggest game in the rivalry’shistory. It’s the kind of game Barrywould have loved to be able to call.He knew it was something hewould miss when he announced hisretirement back in 2010.

“When you’re able to do some-thing your entire life that you’veloved and you’re able to get paid todo it, it’s hard to let go,” Barry saidback in August 2010 when heannounced he was entering his finalseason as a broadcaster. “Part ofme doesn’t want to let go. Theother part of says it’s time, Bubba.”

It’s times like these when it feelslike the time came way too soon.

Bedlam carries on without its voice

Jerry Laizure / The Transcript

Bob Barry Sr., who died Oct. 28, was an Oklhoma sports announcinglegend was the voice of the Sooners and the Cowboys.

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Oklahoma defenders Frank Alexander, Corey Nelson, David King and Tom Wortgang tackle Iowa State quarterback Jared Barnett (16) on Nov. 26 during a Big 12Conference game in Norman. Iowa State delivered a 37-31 heart-breaker toOklahoma State in double overtime on Nov. 18.


The first three months of Oklahoma’ sea-son revealed a team that could both dazzleand disappoint.

There was the team that started the sea-son ranked No. 1 in every poll and domi-nated in games against Tulsa, Florida State,Texas and Kansas State. But could also looklistless against Missouri and Kansas. Therewas also the team that gave up a 39-gamehome winning streak with a loss to TexasTech — which didn’t win another gameafter beating the Sooners — and lost for thefirst time in the program’s history to Baylor.

It’s that Baylor loss that ultimatelydefines OU’s season to date. It was the onethat pulled the plug on OU’s national cham-pionship hopes.

“It hurts,” OU quarterback Landry Jonessaid after the loss to the Bears. “This teamwas definitely capable of playing in that(BCS championship) game and we havethe talent to play in it. It definitely sucks.”

But the Sooners have been a team in aconstant state of evolution this season dueto injuries and other circumstances.

The injuries have had a huge effect. OU(9-2, 6-2 Big 12) will enter Bedlam withoutleading receiver Ryan Broyles, who was lostfor the season with a knee injury Nov. 5against Texas A&M. It left OU tweaking apassing attack that no longer featured one

of the best receivers in the history of col-lege football.

The breakout player of the first six weeksof the season was walk-on running backDominique Whaley. He’d given the Soon-ers the power back with breakaway speedit hadn’t had in several years. Then, hemissed the Texas Tech game with the fluand suffered a season-ending ankle injuryon the first play of the Kansas State game.

OU will still enter Saturday’s gameagainst Oklahoma State (10-1, 7-1) averag-ing over 550 yards and over 43 points agame. But it’s not at full strength. Teamsrarely are in early December. This year hasbeen no exception. The inconsistency ofOU’s defense has been harder to figure out.

It was dominant defensive performancesthat allowed OU to roll to its biggest winsthis season. It held Florida State, Texas,Kansas State and Iowa State to less than 300yards. But it also gave up over 570 yards inboth its losses.

One thing it showed was the ability toregroup after a bad performance.

“Life is a series of storms. When in themiddle of one, you have to come out. We’regoing right back into one this week,” OUdefensive coordinator Brent Venables said.“Character is revealed when you’re in thosethings.”

The Sooners’ character will be definedby how it plays at Oklahoma State Saturday.

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Loss to Baylor scuttles OU’shopes for the national title

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It started the season with realistic nation-al championship expectations. It’s beenslowed by injuries and inconsistency.

“I feel like we’ve got a special groupof players to be able to lose and comeback and fight,” defensive end FrankAlexander said. “If you keep winning,you’ll never know how you’d respond, ifyou’re always on top.”

The year began with everything inplace for OU to be on top. Some injuries,some upsets and some bad plays at thewrong time have knocked it from thatperch.

One thing OU has shown is the abili-ty to rise up for big games. Bedlam witha Big 12 championship on the line wouldseem to qualify.

“We’re a bunch that has been overthere plenty of times and understand thechallenge of it, respect the challenge ofit. But I believe our team is also excitedabout it,” OU coach Bob Stoops said.

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Hopes: Sooners’ season filled with jubilation and dejection as hype fades

Tony Gutierrez / The Associated Press

Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) and Oklahoma linebacker Tom Wort (21) during an NCAA college football gameSaturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Waco, Texas. Baylor won 45-38.

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‘Good enough to dream’ is oneof my favorite phrases.Because, when you think

about it, it’s what being an athlete, a fanor any kind of competitor is allabout.

In a world in which Bill Snydercan bring Kansas State back ashe has, in which the Soonerwomen returned to the FinalFour after losing Whitney Handfor the season, in which long-shots come home, who isn’tgood enough to dream?

The thought is as timeless asthe games themselves.

Bedlam, it turned out, becamethe opposite.

Too good to dream.All the stars came back.

The quarterbacks, the receivers, adefender here and there who mighthave left early for the NFL draft.

They all came back and, for most ofthis season, everything added up to aBedlam for the ages.

For the Big 12 title. For a shot at a national title. For supremacy in a college-football-

mad state, even in a year the Okla-

homa City Thunder, that one entityable to bring both sides of Bedlamtogether, may take the year off.

Alas, it wasn’t to be. Not all of it.Just most of it. Not that it feels that

way.Take it from somebody who covers

OU and is surrounded by the SoonerNation, the difference between beingin position to win a conference cham-pionship and a national championshipis immense. Because whenever the lat-ter is available, settling for the formerfeels like kissing your sister.

It’s hard to remember just how spe-cial it really is to be top dog in a big-time conference. One without Nebras-ka and Colorado, yet still plentycompetitive. Just ask the two bestteams in the conference: the Soonersand Cowboys.

Losses to Iowa State and Baylor arenon-sensical and yet, they only happenin a conference like the Big 12, aleague deeper than Rush’s lyrics, Den-nis Miller’s comedy and that philoso-phy professor you had who alwaysseemed to have it all figured out.

Bedlam, which was supposed toarrive with a deafening bang, now

arrives with a bit of a thud … until yourealize what’s still on the line.

It may be hard to see how, but a casestill can be made that Oklahoma Stateremains on the periphery of the nation-al-championship picture.

The Cowboys are No. 4 in the BCS.The list of unbeatens continues toshrink and shrink. Who knows whatthe landscape will be by 11 p.m. Satur-day?

Still, the main event concerning Bed-lam 2011 may be bigger still. Because,momentarily, Orange Power haspulled even with Boomer Sooner. ThisBedlam winner will be ahead. Not look-ing back, but moving forward.

Try that one on, Sooner Nation.OSU finally has the facilities and the

team to compete on the same level asOU. Win Saturday and the Pokes pullahead.

Likely not forever, perhaps for onlythis season. But that’s not the point.Thanks to Boone Pickens, the founda-tion of a new athletic culture at OSUhas been laid. Thanks to Mike Gundyand staff, that culture is now in trans-formation

Viewed through binoculars from

Sooner Nation, the barbarians are atthe gate. And because they’re wellfunded, well coached and heavy on tal-ent, they’re not going back.

Should OSU win Saturday night, itwill be in position in share the big stagewith the Sooners for years to come.

Sooner loyalists might want to getused to the possibility. Arguably, theCowboys already are there.

Take a look at this season and theprevious two: OU has played 37 gamesand won 28. OSU has played 38 gamesand won 30.

OU has a conference championship.OSU will have one if it beats OU.

See how it works?It is not a changing of the guard, but

it’s certainly something.The Pokes are at the door, lassos in

hand. The Sooners must avoid gettingcaught, even in the Cowboys’ back yard.

You bet there’s plenty still to play forSaturday. Maybe everything.

Clay Horning is sports editor for TheNorman Transcript.

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My Turn

Despite setbacks, there’s still plenty to play for

See what Stillwater’s Chris Day has to say about Bedlam, OSU Page 8

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By Michael KinneyTranscript Sports Writer

Chuck Fairbanks never lost to Okla-homa State. The former Oklahoma coachended his brief tenure with a prefect 6-0record against the in-state rival

Despite that, Fairbanks said Bedlamhas always been an intense rivalry, nomatter what the scoreboard said.

It’s always a big game when you havetwo in-state universities in the sameconference,” Fairbanks said. “In thoseyears OU’s advantage over OSU was sosignificant that it wasn’t our biggest rivalgame. Our biggest rival we had wasagainst Texas. The second was Nebraska.Oklahoma State was important becauseyou have to win at home in this business.You’ve got to be able to beat the peopleyou live with. That importance is stillthere and more important today.”

The Sooners own a commanding82–16–7 Bedlam record. The last timethey lost to the Cowboys was a 38-28

affair in 2002. Since then OU has wonclose games and blowouts.

Yet, fans still are excited about theannual game. That includes this year’scontest, which will be Saturday inStillwater.

“As an OU fan, the game is importantfor bragging rights as well as gettinganother conference title, not to mention aspot in a BCS game,” Jeff Mayhall said.“Plus getting to hear the (Mike) Gundyrant about being a man this time of year isalways priceless.”

For Jay Jimmerson, the Bedlam gameswere special because of the people on theother sideline. In his four years atOklahoma he also never lost to Okla-homa State. But because he grew up withseveral of the players in the bright orangejerseys, just beating them made Bedlamstandout.

“There was more of a disparity in thescores and stuff,” Jimmerson said. “We

Whether close or blowout, Bedlam remembered as important


Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones looks for a receiver down field during 2010Bedlam. Regardless of the significance of the Bedlam game, it’s the rivaly thatmatters the most. • See BEDLAM, page OU 13

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Bedlam: ‘You had to beat the ones you lived with,’ Fairbanks said

were really good. We beat them four yearsrunning. I knew some of the guys thatplayed up there. So it was an intense rivalry.Both sides obviously wanted to win. Itseemed like back then that we may havehad more Oklahoma players than they donow. For that reason, it may have been alittle more meaningful. It was a prettyintense rivalry.”

Jimmerson’s first year at OU in 1977 began a15-game win streak for the Sooners. It wasinterrupted by a 15-15 tie in 1992 that causesSooners pain to think about to this day.

But the overwhelming majority ofhighlights Oklahoma players and fansremember, all end with a victory.

“At the time I was coaching OU, for themost part we were substantially ahead of OSUat the time,” Fairbanks said. “In 1969, Ibelieve, which was Steve Owens’ senior year,Steve set a record in that game up there. Itwas a close, hard-fought game in Stillwater.Steve carried the ball 50-plus times, which was

record in those years. Late in the game wehad the ball inside the 5-yard line and weredriving for a touchdown and quarterbackBobby Wormack called a time-out. I askedBobby why he called a time-out. He saidOwens said he was tired. I said go back inthere and tell Owens he has all winter to rest.

“We won a close game 28-27,” he said.Even when the games are close, Bedlam

has a significant meaning.“The one to me that instantly comes to

mind would have been my senior year in1980,” Jimmerson said. “Only because it waslast game of the season and we were lookingto hopefully win the Big 8 Conference andget a berth to Orange Bowl. It was seniorday, which is always special. We playedreally well on both sides of the field and beatthem 63-14. It was an all around great day. Itas my last day to play at Owen Field, whichstands out. When I was there we usuallybeat them each year by 20 to 50 points. Itwas still intense. You knew you were goingto go up there and have a dog fight. Likewise when they came to OU.”

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Sooner tight end James Hanna works his way through Oklahoma Statedefenders during 2010 Bedlam.

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Saturday’s gamebetween Oklahomaand Oklahoma State isarguably the mostanticipated game in therivalry’s historybecause of what’s atstake in the regular-season finale for bothteams. The winnerSaturday night inStillwater will be theBig 12 champion andreceive the BCS bowlberth. Stakes like thathave been rare in therivalry’s history. Stakeslike that have beenrare, but there havebeen other games thatwere significant forother reasons:

For many, Bedlam remembered as best and worst of timesTwo top 3 teamsNov. 24, 1984 Norman OU 24, OSU 14

There has never been a more highlyanticipated Bedlam game than the historicgame in 1984. OU was No. 2 in the AP poll andNo. 3 in the UPI. Oklahoma State was No. 3 inthe AP and No. 2 in the UPI. The Big 8 Confer-ence title, Orange Bowl berth and national titlehopes hung in the balance.

This game was tied at 14-14 midway throughthe third quarter. Then, two plays shifted thegame in OU’s direction. Cowboy quarterbackRusty Hilger fumbled and OU turned it into aTim Lashar 27-yard field goal for a 17-14 lead.

Then, a highly disputed fumbled punt byOSU’s Bobby Riley sealed the OU victory. Thefumble set up Spencer Tillman’s 20-yard TDrun and a 24-12 lead the Sooners were able tocling to. How big was the Sooner victory?Students stormed the field and tore down thegoal posts after the game. That wouldn’thappen again until 2000.

As it turned out, the game had no bearing onthe national title race. BYU won the nationaltitle with a victory in the Holiday Bowl.

Best GameNov. 5, 1988 Stillwater OU 31, OSU 28

Many believe this was the Cowboys’ mosttalented team. There was no doubt they hadthe best player in the country — running backBarry Sanders in the middle of an historicHeisman Trophy winning season.

The Sooners were ranked eighth andgunning for their fifth straight Big 8 title. The12th-ranked Cowboys were trying to force athree-way tie for the league title after an earlierloss to Nebraska.

The game certainly lived up to the hype andmany believe it was the best game in therivalry’s history. Both Sanders and OU runningback Mike Gaddis rushed for more the 200yards.

The game, however, is remembered for itsending: A personal foul call on OSU fullbackGarrett Limbrick that turned a fourth-and-inches into a a fourth-and-16 with just under 1minute left in the game.

OSU quarterback Mike Gundy lofted a passto the end zone that was dropped by widereceiver Brent Parker.

National champion crownedDec. 1, 1956 Stillwater OU 53, OSU 0

Why was this rout significant? It holds thestatus of being the only Bedlam game that hasever decided a national championship. The1956 Sooners couldn’t go to a bowl game thatyear because Big Seven Conference teamsweren’t allowed to play in them in consecutiveyears. The regular season finale at OSU wasgoing to serve as the season finale.

The Sooners put an emphatic stamp on theirsecond straight national championship andthird in seven years. The shutout victory wasOU’s third straight over the Cowboys, pushedthe Sooners’ NCAA record winning streak to 40games and was the crowning afternoon forwhat many believe is one of the best teams inthe history of college football.

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The upsetNov. 24, 2001 Norman OSU 16, OU 13

The fourth-ranked Sooners were playing for asecond straight berth in the Big 12 championshipgame and were in position to play for a secondstraight national championship thanks to a lossby No. 1 Nebraska a day earlier. All OU had to dowas beat a 3-7 OSU at Owen Field.

The day ended with the biggest upset inBedlam history.

Quarterback Josh Fields led OSU on two longtouchdown drives in the final eight minutes. Thedefining moment was Rashaun Woods’ spectacu-lar 14-yard touchdown catch in front of an OUcornerback with 96 seconds left in the game.

The loss was kept the Sooners out of the Big12 title game and was the first of only threeSooner coach Bob Stoops has suffered at OwenField.

Historic lossNov. 25, 1945 Norman OSU 47, OU 0

Many believe the 1945 game was significantbecause it marked the end of a great era of OSUfootball and coincided with the Sooners’ rise to anational power.

The Thanksgiving Weekend affair was ablowout. The Cowboys rolled to their 18thstraight victory and allowed it to roll into theSugar Bowl unbeaten. The tone of the game wasset early with OSU running back Bob Fenimorereturning the opening kickoff for a touchdown.He finished the day with 139 rushing yards andcompleted 6 of 7 passes for 110 yards.

Historians believe it was the 1945 Bedlamgame that prompted OU officials make football apriority at the school.

The Sooners won their first national champi-onship five years later and didn’t lose to theCowboys again until 1965 and have only losteight times to OSU since.

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Times: Some say ’45 loss marked turning point in OU, Bedlam history


Sooner quarterback Sam Bradford scrambles out of the pocketand tries to evade a Cowboy defender in Bedlam 2008.

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75 Years as Your Bank!

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By Clay HorningTranscript Sports Editor

The powers that be at Oklahoma andOklahoma State have been quite cordialof late, with university presidents David L.Boren and Burns Hargis seemingly onthe same page during every turn of therealignment saga that has once again leftboth schools where they began, at lastsince the Big 12’s been around.

And still, in some things, it’s always,well, Bedlam.

For example, the Sooners claim to leadthe series 82-16-7. The Cowboys, howev-er, claim it to be an 81-17-7 count.

Why is that?Well, OSU claims the 1972 game, a 38-

15 Owen Field Sooner victory, in retro-spect belongs to it, the result of theNCAA officially ruling it a Sooner forfeit.

That might also shed light on theSooners’ 1974 national championship, aseason in which OU, on probation for past

wrongs — the same past wrongs thatforced the Bedlam forfeit — was madeineligible for bowl competition, andtherefore, by agreement, ineligible toappear in the United Press International(UPI) coaches poll. But that didn’t keepthe writers from voting the Sooners No. 1in the Associated Press (AP) writers’ poll,even after they played their last game ofthe 1974 season in November, rather thanJanuary.

Perhaps where you stand determinesyour take on the series history. With that,here’s some more from a series that willplay its 106th game at Boone PickensStadium Saturday.

■ OU leads the series 38-6-5 inStillwater, 38-6-2 in Norman, 5-2 inOklahoma City and 1-0 in Guthrie.

■ The series’ first game took place inGuthrie, which would go on to becomeOklahoma’s first capital (though state-hood didn’t arrive until 1907), on Nov. 6,1904. OU claimed a 75-0 victory.

■ The last neutral-site game wasplayed in 1944 in Oklahoma City. A 28-6OSU (then Oklahoma A&M) victory, thePokes claimed the next meeting 47-0 fortheir most lopsided victory in serieshistory. OSU didn’t claim another three-touchdown victory in the series until1997, the middle season of John Blake’sthree years as OU head coach, when theCowboys prevailed 30-7.

■ The Pokes can claim one run of realdominance in the series, from 1924 to1934 when they lost only twice, won fivetimes and tied three others. In four ofthose five victories, they shut out theSooners. Within that stretch, from 1929 to1934, the Pokes won three and tied three,with every one of the ties being a 0-0 finalscore.

■ The Sooners claim several domi-nant runs, the longest being a string of 19straight victories from 1946 to 1964;within that run is included a very odd six-year stretch, from 1955 to 1960, in which

OU scored 53 points in the ‘55, ‘56 and ‘57games, only to score 7, 17 and 17 in thenext three. Still, OU won every one by atleast a touchdown.

Les is moreFormer OSU coach and now LSU

coach Les Miles gets a lot of grief for hispoor clock management, the rather oddway he answers questions on camera, theway he claps his hands (or palms) and hispropensity for always wearing a cap.

But give the man his due. During histenure at OSU, he may have been theonly coach ever to get under the skin ofBob Stoops.

Miles did it with some offseason (andpregame) comments between the 2002and 2003 Bedlam games. At the time,Miles was coming off huge back-to-backupsets of the Sooners, but on Nov. 1,2003, OU rocked OSU 52-9. With that,

Notebook: The back stories that make Bedlam so much fun

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Notebook: Networks reach fans across region

Stoops cut loose a little.“If we beat whoever, if we

beat Oklahoma State orwhoever else, and they’resitting there in a championshipgame, you’re not going to heara peep out of me,” Stoops said, ayear after losing to OSU, butgoing on to win the 2002 Big 12title game.

Stoops said Miles told him,during their postgame hand-shake, “I guess we found outwho the real No. 1 team (was),”and then, wrapping up, Stoopssaid, “I don’t need him to tellme what we are.”

Scheduling oddityLast year, OU finished the

regular season with roadvictories at Baylor and Okla-homa State (followed byneutral-site away-from-homevictories over Nebraska and

Connecticut). It was the firsttime since 2006 OU has closedwith two straight regular-seasonroad games, and only thesecond time since 1986.

This year marks the secondstraight Bedlam game inStillwater, something thathadn’t happened since 1968 and1969. For its part, OU playedhost to two straight Bedlamgames in 1986 and 1987.

Ranking the seriesThe last time the Sooners

and Cowboys entered Bedlamranked so high was Nov. 24,1984 when OU was No. 2 andOSU No. 3. The Sooners wonthat game 24-14. And while bothteams have been ranked manytimes over the years, 1984 is theonly seasons both teams havefaced each other — as every-body assumed they would faceeach other this season — in thetop 5.

In fact, 1984 marked only thesecond time the Pokes enteredas even a top 10 team. The firsttime was 1945, when then-Oklahoma A&M was rankedNo. 6, on the verge of a 9-0regular season, and whippedOU 47-0.

The third time OSU entered inthe top 10 was last season, whenNo. 14 OU beat No. 10 OSU 47-41.

ReachThirty-three radio stations

broadcast Sooner football in 30different cities and towns. Out ofstate, the Sooner Sports Networkcounts affiliates in Wichita, Kan.,Dallas, Houston and Fort Smith,Ark.

The OSU Cowboy SportsNetwork includes 27 radiofootball affiliates in 25 differentcities and towns. It counts oneout-of-state affiliate, in Amarillo,Texas.

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The semifinal game for thenational championship waswhat everybody hoped Bedlamwould be this year. For the firsteight weeks of the season,Oklahoma and Oklahoma Statewere on that path.

All that went out the windowNov. 18 when the Cowboys lost atIowa State. Any chance of getting itback went to pot Nov. 19 when theSooners lost to Baylor.

What’s left, however, issomething rare in the Bedlamseries — a de facto Big 12championship game. That will bethe big prize going to the winnerSaturday night at Boone PickensStadium in Stillwater.

“I mean this is big, this isBedlam, this is for the Big 12title,” Sooner wide receiverDejuan Miller said. “That’s reallyenough said, there’s nothingreally else to say. It’s for a trip toa BCS Bowl. OSU is playing fortheir first BCS appearance everin their school’s history. So this isdefinitely a huge game. Thiswould definitely be a great way to

go out as a senior.”As little as two weeks ago

you’d have to wonder if thatwould be enough to pique theSooners’ interest. This was ateam that relished being thepreseason favorite to win thenational championship.

It was a mystery that remainedunsolved as OU prepared to facethe Cyclones last week. Then aloud roar went up in OU’s lockerroom when Bedlam was firstmentioned.

This rivalry still means a lot tothe Sooners.

“Being part of this game isspecial,” OU defensive end FrankAlexander said. “OU-Texas isbig, but this is an in-state rivalry. Ilove this game. There’s nothinglike it.”

You could say that aboutBedlam every year. This marksthe seventh straight season bothteams have ended the regularseason against one another. Butthe added intrigue of a Big 12championship — for either team— hanging in the balance is newto all.

The Big 12 South title was onthe line when the teams met in

last year’s classic in Stillwater.But you have to go back to theold Big Eight Conference daysand 1984 to find a Bedlam gamethat carried the same weight.

The thought of it had theSooners excited after Saturday’s26-6 victory over Iowa State thatsolidified the 2011 Bedlam stake.

“We’ve got a bigger challengein front of us,” OU safety/line-backer Tony Jefferson said.“Maybe we aren’t on a nationalchampionship run, but we dohave a shot at the Big 12.”

The Big 12 championshipmeans something to the Sooners.A victory over the Cowboyswould give them eight since2000. No other program that’sever been a member of the Big12 has more than three.

This might not be the idealizedBedlam game so many hadhoped was brewing. OU,however, is in a position itrelishes as it prepares to face theCowboys Saturday night.

“They know it’s a one-gameseason with the chance for theBig 12 championship.” OU coachBob Stoops said. “That’s whereyou want to be.”


Among last week’s recipients of the Don Key Award was tightend James Hanna, seen here carrying the ball down fieldagainst Iowa State defenders.

Big 12 only thought it retired conference title match last seasonLook, a championship game!

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RUSHINGAtt Net Avg TD Long Avg/G

Whaley 113 627 5.5 9 64 89.6Finceh 96 536 5.6 3 55 48.7 Clay 59 217 3.7 1 12 24.1Williams 39 209 5.4 0 17 29.9Millard 15 116 7.7 2 61 10.5Franks 3 93 31.0 0 45 10.3Bell 33 92 2.8 9 10 18.4Jones 25 28 1.1 2 11 2.5Miller 7 20 2.9 0 8 20.0Broyles 1 3 3.0 0 3 0.3Stills 1 1 1.0 0 1 0.1Team 7 -46 -6.6 0 0 -9.2Total 399 1896 4.8 26 64 172.4Opp. 406 1397 3.4 11 56 127.0

PASSINGGP Effic C-A-I Pct Yds TD

Jones 148.00 312-487-12 64.1 4052 28Allen 93.52 9-16-0 56.2 71 0Bell -8.20 1-4-1 25.0 8 0TEAM 0.00 0-1-0 0.0 0 0Total 144.76 322-508-13 63.4 4131 28Opp. 118.09 210-393-13 53.4 2706 16

RECEIVINGNo. Yds Avg TD Long Avg/G

Broyles 83 1157 13.9 10 64 128.6

Stills 52 755 14.5 8 58 83.9Reynolds 39 692 17.7 5 62 76.9Finch 29 251 8.7 0 47 22.8Hanna 24 350 14.6 2 54 31.8Miller 20 229 11.4 1 23 20.8Whaley 15 153 10.2 0 24 21.9Clay 14 76 5.4 0 16 8.4Franks 12 138 11.5 0 24 15.3Millard 11 88 8.0 1 17 8.0Ratterree 9 98 10.9 1 25 8.9Jackson 7 91 13.0 0 24 10.1Haywood 6 42 7.0 0 19 7.0Miller 1 11 11.0 0 11 11.0Total 322 4131 12.8 28 64 375.5Opp. 210 2706 12.9 16 87 246.0

Tackles (leaders)U A T Loss Sacks

Colvin 48 25 73 4.5-21 0.5-4T. Lewis 42 28 70 2.0-2Wort 27 35 62 4.5-28 3.5-24R. Lewis 33 26 59 13.0-83 5.5-58Jefferson 38 20 58 7.5-43 4.5-37Alexander 32 19 51 18.0-76 8.5-49Nelson 24 26 50 8.0-38 5.5-34

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By the Numbers: Oklahoma / individual

OSU OPPSCORING 473 229

Points Per Game 430 208

FIRST DOWNS 297 207Rushing 105 83Passing 180 107Penalty 12 17

RUSHING YARDAGE 1896 1397Yards gained rushing 2066 1796Yards lost rushing 170 399Rushing Attempts 399 406Average Per Rush 48 34Average Per Game 1724 1270TDs Rushing 26 11

PASSING YARDAGE 4131 2706Comp-Att-Int 322-508-13 210-393-13Average Per Pass 81 69Average Per Catch 128 129Average Per Game 3755 2460TDs Passing 28 16

TOTAL OFFENSE 6027 4103Total Plays 907 799Average Per Play 66 51Average Per Game 5479 3730

KICK RETURNS: #-Yards 35-716 69-1396PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards 25-231 10-121INT RETURNS: #-Yards 13-239 13-62KICK RETURN AVG. 205 202PUNT RETURN AVG. 92 121INT RETURN AVG. 184 48FUMBLES-LOST 14-10 18-11PENALTIES-Yards 53-483 70-493

Average Per Game 439 448PUNTS-Yards 49-2034 81-3329

Average Per Punt 415 411Net punt aveårage 370 368

TIME OF POSSESSION/Game 30:10 29:503RD-DOWN Conversions 72/166 50/167

3rd-Down Pct 43% 30%4TH-DOWN Conversions 7/12 5/15

4th-Down Pct 58% 33%SACKS BY-Yards 37-266 6-35MISC YARDS 0 0TOUCHDOWNS SCORED 58 28FG-ATTEMPTS 23-26 11-16ON-SIDE KICKS 0-1 1-2RED-ZONE SCORES (54-60) 90% (20-29) 69%RED-ZONE TDs (36-60) 60% (15-29) 52%PAT-ATTEMPTS (56-58) 97% (26-27) 96%ATTENDANCE 510967 218257

Games/Avg Per Game 6/85161 4/54564Neutral Site Games 1/96009

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Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14NORMAN — Oklahoma’s season

opener turned into an emphaticstatement, as OU rolled over Tulsa 47-14. The Sooners sprinted to a 30-0 leadand coasted home on a night whenthey rolled up 663 yards of totaloffense.

The yards weren’t weren’t the onlystory. Who was getting them turnedout to be a major surprise. DominiqueWhaley announced his presence withauthority. The walk-on junior carried 18times for 131 yards and four touch-downs in falling just one TD shy of theNCAA record for rushing scores in adebut. Whaley keyed a 246-yard efforton the ground.

Sooner quarterback Landry Jonesgot off to a hot start as well, completing35-of-47 attempts for 375 yards with onetouchdown and no interceptions. Perusual, his favorite target was RyanBroyles, who hauled in 14 passes for158 yards and one touchdown.

Aside from three big plays, Okla-homa’s defense was outstanding. TheGolden Hurricane picked up nearly 40percent of its yards (159 of 400) andboth touchdowns on those three passplays. Defensive end Frank Alexanderlogged two pass deflections and oneinterception, which he returned 27yards, to go with six tackles.

Season in review: Game 1Ryan Broyles, aNorman native,

hauled in 14passes for 158yards and onetouchdown inOU’s season

opener againstTulsa.


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Season in review: Game 2Oklahoma 23, Florida State, 13

TALLAHASSE, Fla. — Inwhat was billed as one of collegefootball’s biggest non-confer-ence games, Oklahoma defend-ed its No. 1 ranking with anemphatic, 23-13, victory overNo. 5 Florida State at raucousDoak Campbell Stadium.

Sooner wide receiver KennyStills was responsible for one ofthe season’s indelible images,snaring a 37-yard touchdownpass from Landry Jones midwaythrough the fourth quarter forthe go-ahead score.

However, it was OU’s defensethat ruled the night, holding theSeminoles to 246 yards andgiving up just the one touch-down. Safety Javon Harrispicked off two passes for theSooners, who forced three

turnovers and had six sacksagainst two Florida Statequarterbacks.

The Seminoles played thefinal 20 minutes without startingquarterback E.J. Manuel, wholeft in the third with a leftshoulder injury.

Backup Clint Trickett kept theSeminoles in it. He hooked upwith freshman Rashad Greenefor a 56-yard touchdown on athird-and-28 with 9:32 left in thefourth quarter to tie the game at13.

But on the next possession,Jones went high and deep downthe sideline to the 6-foot-1 Stills,who outleaped Greg Reid for thetouchdown.

Kicker Jimmy Stevens put thegame away with a 31-yard fieldgoal with 2 minutes remaining toseal the Sooners’ biggest roadvictory since the 2000 season.


Ryan Broyles scores against Florida State in Tallahasse.

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Season in review:Game 3Oklahoma 38, Missouri 28

NORMAN — Oklahoma’s grip onthe No. 1 spot in the polls started toslip on a late night at Owen Field thatalso proved it wasn’t invincible athome.

Landry Jones hooked up with All-American Ryan Broyles for 154 yardsand three touchdowns, but the biggeststoryline was the Sooners having torally from an early deficit. Theyactually trailed the Tigers 14-3 at theend of the first quarter. The Soonershad gone the previous 20 home gameswithout ever falling behind.

The Sooners roared back with 28straight points to avenge a loss inColumbia last year when they werefirst in the BCS standings and movetheir home winning streak — thelongest in the nation — to 38 straightgames.

The Soonerstrailed theTigers 14-3 atthe end ofthe firstquarter. TheSooners hadgone theprevious 20home gameswithout everfallingbehind.

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Season in review:Game 4Oklahoma 62, Ball State 6

NORMAN — Saftey Tony Jefferson wasstarting to think his performance was toogood to be true. Fortunately for Oklahoma,it was entirely for real.

Jefferson fueled a second-quarter scoringsurge with interceptions on three straightdrives, and the Sooners geared up for theirrivalry game against Texas the followingnext week by blistering the Cardinals.

OU made each turnover costly bycashing in for seven points again and again.By the time they were done with theturnover-fed 51⁄2-minute binge, a four-pointlead had grown to 32.

Landry Jones threw for 425 yards andfive touchdowns — including scores of 64yards to Ryan Broyles and 56 yards to JazReynolds a minute apart in the third quarter— and then Jefferson’s mind strayedtoward the looming game against theLonghorns.

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Season in review:Game 5Oklahoma 55, Texas 17

DALLAS — The Sooners made a strongcase they belonged at the top polls andquarterback Landry Jones bullied his wayinto the Heisman Trophy discussion in adominant performance against Texas.

OU stomped its top rival almost as easilyas it did lowly Ball State the previous week,getting three touchdown passes fromJones, a 64-yard touchdown run byDominique Whaley and three defensivetouchdowns.

The Sooners scored the first four timesthey had the ball. They were up by 24points at halftime and by 45 midwaythrough the fourth quarter on the way totheir most lopsided win in the series since2003, when they won by a series-record 52points.

OU’s defense put an emphatic stamp onthe game, which marked its secondstraight victory over Texas, by forcing fiveturnovers.

Among thescoringeffortsagainst rivalTexas was a64-yardtouchdownrun byDominiqueWhaley

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Season in review: Game 6

Oklahoma 47, Kansas 17LAWRENCE, Kan. — Bob Stoops

knew that Ryan Broyles was one catchaway from becoming the NCAA’s careerleader, so the Oklahoma coach called fora pass play that sent his All-Americanwide receiver on a deep post route. Mightas well set the record in style.

The senior hauled in a 57-yard touch-down pass from Landry Jones in the firsthalf and finished with 13 catches for aschool-record 217 yards and two scores

as the third-ranked Sooners rolled to a 47-17 victory over Kansas.

Broyles has 326 catches in his career,and the two touchdown grabs gave him44. He came into the game tied withformer Oklahoma State star RashaunWoods for the Big 12 record.

Dominique Whaley added 165 yardsrushing and a touchdown, and MichaelHunnicutt hit all four of his field-goalattempts for the Sooners.


Ryan Broyles hauled in a 57-yard touchdown pass from Landry Jones in the firsthalf and finished with 13 catches for a school-record 217 yards and two scores

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Season in review: Game 7Texas Tech 41, Oklahoma 38

NORMAN — As rain fell and lighting struck in theminutes leading up the game, it was obvious it wasn’tgoing to be a normal night at Owen Field. It got evenstranger when unranked Texas Tech became the teamto hand the Sooners their first loss at Owen Field in 40games.

Texas Tech quarterback Seth Doege threw for 441yards and connected with Alex Torres on three of hisfour touchdown passes.

The game started nearly two hours late due to alightning delay. The wait had didn’t affect Texas Tech abit. The Sooners, who were missing three defensivestarters due to injuries, played like a shell of their formerselves, giving up 572 yards of total offense.

The Sooners trailed 31-7 early in the third quarter, butrallied in the second half to make it a game. LandryJones threw five touchdown passes, but MichaelHunnicutt missed a pair of field goals that proved to bethe difference.

The Red Raiders became the first opponent since TCUin the 2005 season opener to win in Norman. OklahomaState pulled off the only other win against OU coach BobStoops in Norman, in the 2001 regular-season finale.

Oklahomawide receiverJaz Reynoldstries to getpast theTexas Techdefenseduring theSooners'game Oct. 22at Owen Field.

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Season in review:Game 8Oklahoma 58, Kansas State 17

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Landry Jones andRyan Broyles put Oklahoma’s season back ontrack, leaving the Wildcats to see if they, too,could bounce back from a first loss.

Jones threw for a school-record 505 yards andfive touchdowns Saturday, his All- American widereceiver caught 14 passes for 171 yards and ascore, and the 11th-ranked Sooners took outsome pent up frustration with a 58-17 thumping ofthe No. 10 Wildcats. Their national championshiphopes dashed by Texas Tech the week before —along with their 39-game home winning streak —the Sooners spoiled the same hopes harbored byKansas State.

Jones shattered the previous school record foryards passing of 468, which he had shared withSam Bradford, and moved into first place on theOklahoma career list with 90 touchdown passes.

The Sooners did suffer a major injury. Runningback Dominique Whaley suffered on a season-ending ankle injury on the game’s first play.


Dominique Whaley leaves the field after suffering a season-ending ankle injury on the first play of the OU-KansasState game.

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Seasonin review: Game 10


Oklahoma 41, Texas A&M 25NORMAN — No. 6 Oklahoma lost a lot in a victory

over Texas A&M. All-American Ryan Broyles, theNCAA’s career leader in receptions, tore the anteriorcruciate ligament in his left knee, ending his season.

He got hurt while cutting to make his second catchof the game, a 30-yarder that set up one of four third-quarter touchdowns in the Sooners’ 41-25 victory .

The Sooners scored on four straight possessionsafter leading 13-10 at halftime. Texas A&M had its

second-half troubles continue — the Aggies had givenup big second-half leads in its previous three losses.

Landry Jones threw for 255 yards and two touch-downs with both coming in the third quarter to helpOU run away from the Aggies with 28 third-quarterpoints.

The meeting was the last between the schools asconference rivals with Texas A&M set to join the SECin 2012.

Baylor 45, Oklahoma 38WACO, Texas — The fifth-

ranked Sooners had an opportuni-ty to jump back into the nationaltitle hunt thanks to losses by bothOklahoma State and Oregon.Instead, Baylor quarterbackRobert Griffin III re-emerged as a

Heisman Trophy candidate andOU was left to ponder what mighthave been.

Landry Jones threw for 447yards and backup quarterbackBlake Bell rushed for four touch-downs. Both were upstaged byGriffin, who threw for 479 yardsand four touchdowns.

The last one came with 8seconds remaining, 43 secondsafter the Sooners had rallied froma 14-point deficit to tie the game.

The loss knocked the Soonersto No. 9 in the BCS standings, outof the national championshippicture.

Oklahoma 26, Iowa State 6NORMAN — The reputation of Oklahoma’s defense

was resurrected with a dominant performance against IowaState. A week after being scorched in a loss at Baylor thatknocked the Sooners out of the national championshiprace, it was defense that allowed them to set up a show-down with Oklahoma State for the Big 12 title.

The Sooners held Iowa State to a season-low 245 yardsand a touchdown that was set up by deep snapper JamesWinchester’s errant snap over the head of punter TressWay in the first quarter. Iowa State didn’t have a drivelonger than 35 yards the entire game.

The Cyclones offensive total was 371 yards fewer thanOU allowed one week earlier in Waco.

Mother Nature had a hand in the game. The windgusted to more than 40 miles an hour throughout.

Sooner quarterback Landry Jones threw for 256 yardsand backup quarterback Blake Bell ran for two touch-downs. The offensive star for OU was kicker MichaelHunnicutt, who banged through field goals of 20, 28, 37and 21 yards.


The offensive star for OU was kicker Michael Hunnicutt.

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All-American Ryan Broyles, the NCAA’s career leader in receptions, tore the anterior cruciate ligament inhis left knee, in the Nov. 5 game against Texas A&M. The injury ended his season.

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Cornerback19, Brodrick Brown, 5-8, 185, Jr. Houston16, Andrae May, 5-11, 180, Jr. Houston

Defensive End99, Richetti Jones, 6-3, 260, Sr. Dallas80, Cooper Bassett, 6-5, 275, Jr. Tuttle

Defensive Tackle72, Christian Littlehead, 6-3, 305, R-Fr. Broken Arrow94, Anthony Rogers, 6-3, 284, So. N. Little Rock, Ark.

Defensive Tackle89, Nickel Nicholas, 6-3, 285, Jr. Rossville, Ga.98, Davidell Collins, 6-5, 266, So. Bearden, Ark.

Tailback22, Roy Finch, 5-7, 166, So. Niceville, Fla.3, Brennan Clay, 5-11, 194, So. San Diego

Defensive End50, Jamie Blatnick, 6-3, 265, Sr.96, Ryan Robinson, 6-4, 242, Jr.

Note: OU lists an additional positionon its depth chart: a fullback

Fullback33, Trey Millard, 6-2, 249, So. Columbia, Mo.48, Aaron Ripkowski, 6-2, 255, Fr. Dayton, Texas

OU SpecialistsPunter36, Tress Way, 6-1, 218, Jr. Tulsa

Punt Returner4, Kenny Stills, 6-1, 189, So.

Kick Returner22, Roy Finch, 5-7, 166, So.

Place Kicker18, Michael Hunnicutt, 5-9, 169, R-Fr. Richardson, Texas

Deep Snapper86, James Winchester, 6-3, 200, Sr. (P) Washington50, Austin Woods, 6-4, 290, So. (PK) Rockwall, Texas

Holder81, Nyko Symonds, 5-10, 163, R-Fr. Oklahoma City

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