Oklahoma vs. Baylor: Notable Numbers From Bear Declawing
By Chip Rouse
Perhaps the most meaningful number from Oklahoma vs. Baylor this past weekend was the 100 rung up by the Sooners in hitting the century mark in home wins under head coach Bob Stoops.
The Sooners are 100-9 in the Stoops era of Oklahoma football when playing host to opponents at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. That encompasses 18 glorious seasons in which the Sooners have won a national champions, played for three others, won at least 11 games 12 different times and captured nine Big 12 championships. Those are highly impressive numbers by any accounting measure.
Saturday’s comfortable 45-24 victory over a reeling Baylor team was the Sooners’ seventh Big 12 win this season without a loss and 15 consecutive conference win going back to last season.
A pair of wins in upcoming games with West Virginia and Oklahoma State – by far the most difficult two-game challenge of the entire season – would tie OU’s all-time mark for consecutive Big 12 wins, set between 2003 and 2005. (The all-time consecutive Sooner win mark, of course, is an NCAA-record 47 straight wins, achieved by the late Bud Wilkinson’s great Oklahoma teams of the 1950s.)
Here are a dozen more notable numbers that came out of Saturday’s OU-Baylor game:
.812 – Bob Stoops’ winning percentage when Oklahoma is a top-10 team (108-25).
2 – Senior linebacker Jordan Evans had two interceptions and two sacks against Baylor. He is the first Oklahoma player in history to record two picks and two quarterback sacks in the same game.
5 – Number of incompletions or interceptions thrown by Baker Mayfield in the game (20 out of 25 passing). The two Baylor quarterbacks (Seth Russell and Zach Smith) had 10 incompletions or interceptions in the third quarter alone.
9 – Number of pass breakups recorded in the Baylor game by the Sooner defense. That is the highest number of pass breakups by Oklahoma since equaling that same mark against Texas A&M in 2011.
10 – Wide receiver Dede Westbrook has 10 touchdown catches this season of 40-or-more yards. That is double the previous number of TD catches of that distance caught by an Oklahoma player in a single season.
15 – The victory by Oklahoma over Baylor was the 15th by Bob Stoops vs. the Bears. That is the most wins against any one opponent by Stoops as the Sooners’ head coach.
17 – The difference in the number of plays by Baylor (91) and Oklahoma (74). What’s even more interesting about this statistic is that OU had the ball more than 11 minutes longer in the game than the Bears (35:48 to 24:12).
17 – Touchdowns by Oklahoma of at least 40 yards this season. That leads all FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) teams.
45 – Samaje Perine had two rushing touchdowns on Saturday, giving him 45 for his career at Oklahoma. That is the fourth most in Sooner football history.
70.6 – Oklahoma’s third-down conversion percentage on Saturday (12 out of 17).
124 – Joe Mixon had 124 rushing yards on 14 carries on Saturday, including a 56-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter that put OU up 35-17. He is now 63 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard rushing season as a collegian.
500 – The Sooners put up 566 yards of total offense against Baylor, the 14th time in the last 17 games that Oklahoma has produced over 500 yards of offense.