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No. 4 Oklahoma plays the Cyclones on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in Ames.
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2007 OU Football Guide NORMAN, Okla. -- After back-to-back wins over ranked foes (No. 19 Texas, No. 11 Missouri), Oklahoma plays at Iowa State. The Cyclones, who own a win over Iowa, are looking to snap a four-game losing streak. OU has played just one game since Sept. 15, but finishes with three of four Big 12 games in Norman. The Sooners take the field at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. FSN has the national broadcast.
The Series
Oklahoma leads it 66-5-2, including a 32-2-1 advantage in Ames. The Sooners have won the last 10 games and are 37-1-1 in the last 39. Iowa State’s last win came in 1990, 33-31, at Norman. OU has won 19 straight in Ames dating back to a 10-6 loss in 1960.
The Coaches
Oklahoma: Bob Stoops (Iowa ‘83) is 92-20 in his ninth season with the Sooners. He is 4-4 in bowls, 3-3 in January Bowls, 2-3 in BCS games, 58-12 vs. the Big 12, 32-8 vs. the Big 12 South, 26-4 vs. the Big 12 North, 4-1 in the Big 12 title game, 33-8 vs. non-conference opponents, 51-2 at home, 26-10 on the road, 14-8 on neutral fields and 27-10 vs. ranked foes. He is 4-0 vs. Missouri
Iowa State: Gene Chizik (Florida ‘85) is 1-6 in his first season with the Cyclones and overall.
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• Oklahoma's all-time record stands at 774-293-53.
• The Sooners own seven national championships (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000).
• OU has 40 bowl appearances (No. 7 nationally) with 24 victories (No. 3 nationally).
• Oklahoma has won 40 conference titles.
• Since WWII, Oklahoma is the most success college football program with 530 victories.
• Some 142 All-Americans and four Heisman Trophy winners have come from the Oklahoma program.
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Oklahoma Football History & Tradition Oklahoma's Most Recent Game
No. 5 Oklahoma turned five Missouri turnovers into 24 points and downed the No. 11 Tigers at Norman, 41-31 ...
• Oklahoma trailed twice in the game, 7-0 and 24-23. The Sooners reeled off three straight touchdowns in the fourth quarter to turn that last deficit into a 41-24 lead.
• Sam Bradford was brilliant again completing 24-of-34 for 266 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
• Chris Brown rushed for a career-high three touchdowns from 1, 4 and 17 yards.
• Curtis Lofton, who registered a career-high 18 tackles, scored his second touchdown of the season when he returned a fumble 12 yards for a score.
• Oklahoma picked off three passes, including two thrown by Chase Daniel. OU now has five interceptions against the Tiger quarterback in two games. Daniel has thrown just 18 picks in his three-year career.
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Recap & Coverage: Oklahoma 41, Missouri 31 Sooners Digging the Long Ball
OU has 70 plays, offense and defense, of 20 yards or longer (not including special teams) ...
• Plays of 20-29 Yards -- 31 plays (three rushes, 13 passes) and seven touchdowns.
• Plays of 30-39 Yards -- 18 plays (three rushes, five passes) and five touchdowns
• Plays of 40+ Yards -- 21 plays (six rushes, nine passes) and 11 touchdowns.
Notes: Four Sooners have a rush of 41 yards or longer ... OU has a 53-yard FG from Garrett Hartley ... OU’s opponents have 16 plays (14 passes) of 20+ yards ... OU’s longest play was a 92-yard touchdown run by DeMarco Murray vs. Utah State ... he also had an 81-yard kickoff return at Tulsa.
Miscellany
• Oklahoma has scored in 26 of 28 quarters this season. The exceptions were the fourth quarters against Utah State and Colorado.
• Oklahoma opponents are 2-of-21 on third down in the fourth quarter.
• Oklahoma has had a 100-yard receiver in five of seven games this season.
• DeMarco Murray and Allen Patrick both have 100-yard rushing games this season. It marks the fifth consecutive season that more than one tailback achieved the feat in the same year. Those two average 6.3 and 6.1 yards per carry, respectively.
• OU has four, one-play scoring drives. Three of those plays were rushes and the shortest, a rush, was 17 yards.
• OU has two, 90-yard scoring drives: 96 against Utah State and 94 against Texas.
• OU opponents are 33-of-110 on third down for 30.0%. OU is 45-of-89 for 50.6%.
• OU ran between 67 and 73 (73 three times) plays in its six wins, 46 in its loss.
• Rushing -- OU 276 attempts for 1,415 yards (5.1/carry); opponents 241 for 456 (1.9/carry).
• Oklahoma has 12 turnovers as opposed to 18 by the opponents. OU scored 83 points (8 TD, 1 FG) off the turnovers, the opponents have 44 (5 TD, 3 FG).
Sooners Briefly
• Oklahoma was tabbed for a second-place finish in the Big 12’s South Division in a preseason polling of league media. Defensive back Reggie Smith was named the league's preseason defensive player of the year.
• There are 34 players on this team with previous experience as a starter for OU. That’s up from 10 over the number that returned last season.
Home Field Honchos
• Oklahoma is 51-2 at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium under Bob Stoops and has won its last 15 in a row there and 35 of its last 36. During Stoops’s tenure, which included home winning streaks of 19 and 17 games, OU has registered six shutouts on Owen Field.
• The Sooners are 27-1 against the Big 12 at home under their current head coach and have won their last 18 conference games on Owen Field.
Great Slate
• Oklahoma has played exclusive Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly I-A) opposition since Bob Stoops’ opener in 1999 (a 49-0 win over I-AA Indiana State) or for 110 consecutive games. The entire 2007 schedule is comprised of FBS competition.
• Under Stoops, Oklahoma has played regular season games against Notre Dame, UCLA (twice), Alabama (twice), Oregon (twice), Miami, Louisville, North Carolina, Air Force and Washington. Future slates feature Miami, Washington, Tennessee, Notre Dame, LSU and Florida State.
Close Shaves
Oklahoma’s loss at Colorado marked the fourth time in the last five Sooner setbacks that the game was decided on the game’s final play: 2007 Colorado (CU field goal), 2007 Fiesta Bowl (Boise State TD), 2006 Oregon (blocked Oklahoma field goal attempt) and 2005 Texas Tech (TTU touchdown). Those four losses were by a total of seven points (27-24 at Colorado, 43-42 to Boise State, 34-33 at Oregon and 23-21 at Texas Tech), and all were away from Norman.
Stoops Era Attendance
Oklahoma has drawn 4,244,302 for Bob Stoops’ 53 home games (started in 1999) ...
• All 53 have been sold out and the Sooners prevailed 52 times. The current string of sellouts is second-longest in school history trailing a string of 69 straight from 1971 to 1984.
• Last year’s average home attendance of 84,561 was the largest in school history. The top seven seasons for OU home attendance have come on Stoops’ watch.
• The crowd of 85,357 for this year’s Miami game is the largest in school history. The 84,472 for this year’s North Texas game was the largest ever for an OU opener
• OU has exceeded its listed capacity of 82,112 in 27 consecutive games.
• When the game against Missouri sold out, it marked the 94th (home, away and neutral) to do so in Bob Stoops’ 112 games as the OU head coach.
• During those nine years, 8,106,960 fans have been in attendance for Sooner games.
• Some 83.9% of Stoops’ games sold out as compared with 83.7 (136-of-190) for Barry Switzer and 37.1% (66-of-178) for Bud Wilkinson.
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