Nebraska native Kaden Helms, a freshman tight end, just caught his first career pa s for the Sooners, a 4-yard reception from Davis Beville. Cool moment for him and his family. JHThird quarter stats: JHThird quarter ends mercifully. Sooners backups are getting some quality snaps. JHWe have another quarterback change in Lincoln.Davis Beville has come in for Dillon Gabriel and throws complete to LV Bunkley-Shelton.Gabriel is 16-of-27 for 230 yards with two TDs and the 61-yard TD run. JHKey Lawrence gives up a completion on a quick slant, but then rips the football out. He's unable to scoop (he'd have probably scored), but it's a stop for no gain and Nebraska will punt.Lawrence is pretty good at stripping fumbles. JHWe have a quarterback change in Lincoln.Chubba Purdy Brock Purdys little brother and the
Richard Sherman Jersey guy who flirted with coming to Oklahoma last winter has entered the game at the midway point of the third quarter.Its Purdys first appearance of the season. Frankly, Casey Thompson deserved better blocking than what hes gotten today. JHGabriel finishes off a really nice, patient drive with a bullet on a slant pa s to Theo Wease for the touchdown. Sooners are humming. Its 49-7. JHEric Gray cashes it in on a 21-yard run. The mood around the Nebraska program is so dismal that the pre s box PA announcer announced the touchdown run before Gray had even cro sed the plane of the goal line. All Sooners, up 42-7 with 13:13 still left in the third quarter. RCHows that for a start?First play Jaren Kanak forces a fumble and recovers it himself on the first play of the second half. Davis Beville might get to throw the ball today. RCHalftime: Sooners are dominating. OU is an 11-point favorite and it probably won't be enough. JHMarvin Mims with the 38-yard catch and run on a quick hitch and Eric Gray with the 15-yard touchdown run almost untouched. This is almost too easy.Oklahoma leads it 35-7, 1:44 to play before half.Nebraska isnt good at football. And we may be finding out something about Oklahoma. JHLost in the shuffle of the muffed punt Brent Venables has been eating the Nebraska offense alive with his Cheetah blitzes. DaShaun White was having a career day pinning his ears back and getting after Casey Thompson before the targeting, and then Jaren Kanak produces the
Cortez Kennedy Jersey exact same result on his first snap. RCEthan Downs gets another sack to end the Husker drive and Oklahoma will get the ball back with 2:55 before half after an adventure on the punt return. Kani Walker recovers to save the po se sion after the ball seemed to hit Trevon West. JHDaShaun White is playing the game of his life, and he just got ejected for targeting on Casey Thompson. Lowered his head at the last second. Ref flagged him. Easy call. Reviews quickly confirmed it.Good thing is he'll be available to start next week against Kansas State.Jaren Kanek is in at Sam linebacker, instead of Justin Harrington at the Cheetah. JHA 39-yard field goal by Zach Schmit goes wide right. Snap and hold were perfect.Its still 28-7, but thats good information for Brent Venables to have in the teams first road test. JHDillon Gabriel just overthrows Jalil Farooq on what might have been a 62-yard touchdown. Hes been a little out front with a handful of throws today.Farooq made a couple nice moves on his catch on the previous play. Reminded of the Alamo Bowl. JHBrent Venables and Jay Valai both went straight to Jaden Davis after that pa s interference call, and it appeared they were trying to get him to turn around earlier. Looked like a close call either way, but instead of lighting up the official, the OU staff went to work trying to
Seattle Seahawks Jersey correct Davis technique. That flag was the first real life the Nebraska offense showed since the second drive stalled. RCSo about that atmosphere Memorial Stadium is dead. All you could hear (through thick pre s box windows) were O-U-O-U-O-U chants before that extra point. Also, the Podcast on the Prairie will be electric this week after that Willis touchdown pa s. RCReally nice drive there by the Oklahoma offense to take a 28-7 lead with 11:35 to play before half.Marcus Major catches the touchdown from tight end Brayden Willis wide open, but it was a deep ball from Gabriel to Mims that drew a 15-yard pa s interference penalty and a great play-action from Gabriel to Brayden Willis that set it up.Nebraska is gue sing, and Jeff Lebby is having a day. JHDaniel Parker just kept a drive alive by stretching the ball acro s the first down on third-and-5. Hed have been short without the stretch.Jayden Gibson comes in on first down, but the Sooners call timeout. JHThis quarter is at 13:30 and is absolutely dragging.Dillon Gabriel is 7/11 for 86 yds with a TD and leads OU with 58 yds rushing and a 61y TD run.Casey Thompson is 7/10 for 72 yds with one TD and has -22 yds rushing on three sacks. JHEthan Downs opens the drive by beating his man and annihilating Trey Palmer on a jet-sweep pa s. What a play. Nebraska punts. JHNow the Sooners are in the end zone. Marcus Major walks in. No Chris Murray at fullback, but Tawee Walker got the call. That was a five play, 23-
Phil Haynes Jersey yard touchdown drive set up by a 34-yard punt return from Marvin Mims. RCInteresting throwback look for the Sooners on that goal line play: their most physical runner (Marcus Major) gets the football behind their stout walk-on RB-turned-fullback (Tawee Walker) and they plow into the end zone behind a two-tight end front. OU just used a 22 personnel formation, and Major scores untouched. Maybe Jeff Lebby has found something here today.OU leads it 21-7. JHTake the touchdown off the board, Mims was ruled to have cro sed the ball outside the pylon and he never touched the end zone. Lets see if the line can get any push. Chris Murray came in at fullback and Mickey Joseph burns a timeout. RCFirst play out of the break and Gabriel finds Marvin Mims for a 9-yard touchdown pa s, but everything is grinding to a halt for a review to see if Mims indeed nosed inside the pylon (looks like he scored based on what is being shown on the Jumbotron).The score is currently pending at 20-7 with 14:54 left in the second quarter. RCVeteran moment there by Gabriel ahead of picking up that first down. Mettauer stood back up out of his stance for a second, but
Quinton Jefferson Jersey Gabriel waited to snap the ball. Instead of a false start, offense got set and Brayden Willis picks up the first down. Sooners have had a false start due to a player not getting set on time in each of the first two games. The OU quarterback looks like hes settled in. RCFirst-quarter stats:Scroll to ContinueEnd of first quarter. Sooners seem to be taking control.We knew the Nebraska offensive line was bad. So did Casey Thompson. Poor kid just got sacked for the third time this quarter by Jalen Redmond to end the drive. OU also has 5 TFLs. JHKani Wa