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Oklahoma football: Ranking Sooners 5 best games of 2018, so far

By Chip Rouse

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 01: The Oklahoma Sooners celebrate a 39-27 Big 12 Championship win against the Texas Longhorns at AT&T Stadium on December 01, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 01: The Oklahoma Sooners celebrate a 39-27 Big 12 Championship win against the Texas Longhorns at AT&T Stadium on December 01, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /
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AMES, IA – SEPTEMBER 15: Defensive back D’Andre Payne #1 of the Iowa State Cyclones drives wide receiver Marquise Brown #5 of the Oklahoma Sooners ut of bounds as he rushed for yards in the first half of play at Jack Trice Stadium on September 15, 2018 in Ames, Iowa. .(Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images)
AMES, IA – SEPTEMBER 15: Defensive back D’Andre Payne #1 of the Iowa State Cyclones drives wide receiver Marquise Brown #5 of the Oklahoma Sooners ut of bounds as he rushed for yards in the first half of play at Jack Trice Stadium on September 15, 2018 in Ames, Iowa. .(Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images) /

#4  Sept. 15, Oklahoma 37 at Iowa State 27

Oklahoma opened Big 12 play just three games into the 2018 season. And it was at Iowa State, the team that had handed the Sooners their only regular-season defeat the year before. It was Kyler Murray’s first game on the road as the Oklahoma starting quarterback, but you would have never known it by his performance.

Murray passed for 348 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a team-high 77 yards in leading OU to a 37-27 victory. The win improved the Sooners’ all-time record in games played at Iowa State to 37-2-1 and 14-1 in the Big 12 era. It also extended OU’s consecutive win streak in true road games to 17.

The Sooners built up a 24-10 lead at the half. Iowa State rallied in the second half, much like it did the season before in the game in Norman, but this time the Sooners’ held off the pesky Cyclones.

Three times in the second half Iowa State cut the Oklahoma led to seven points, but the Sooners mounted a 12-play fourth-quarter drive that drained over eight minutes off the clock and ended with a 42-yard field goal by Austin Seibert that choked off the Cyclones’ chances and secured OU’s third win of the season.

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