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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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LUBBOCK, TX – NOVEMBER 03: Trey Sermon #4 of the Oklahoma Sooners breaks free for a touchdown during the second half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on November 3, 2018 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma defeated Texas Tech 51- 46. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX – NOVEMBER 03: Trey Sermon #4 of the Oklahoma Sooners breaks free for a touchdown during the second half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on November 3, 2018 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma defeated Texas Tech 51- 46. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /

#3  Nov. 3, Oklahoma 51 at Texas Tech 46

The last time Oklahoma went on the road to play Texas Tech in Lubbock was in 2016 in the epic shootout between Baker Mayfield and Patrick Mahomes of the Red Raiders. There was over 1,700 yards of total offense in that game, 734 passing by Mahomes alone. The Sooners managed to come out on top in the contest, 66-59.

The 2018 game promised to be more of the same, although with a different cast of characters.

Oklahoma couldn’t have gotten off to a worst start. Kyler Murray uncharacteristically threw two interceptions in the opening quarter. Both led to touchdowns, and the Sooners found themselves down 14-0 midway through the first quarter.

Murray rebounded from his near-disaster early on, passing for 360 yards and three touchdowns and adding 100 yards on the ground with one rushing touchdown in leading the seventh-ranked Sooners to a 61-56 come-from-behind victory.

Sophomore running back Trey Sermon added to the Oklahoma 687-yard offensive performance with a career-high 206 rushing yards.

With Oklahoma clinging to a 42-40 lead midway through the final quarter, Sooner safety Robert Barnes made the play of the game, picking off a pass on a two-point conversion try by the Red Raiders and running it back 98 yards to give OU the two points. That widened the Sooners’ advantage to 44-40.

Oklahoma scored again four minutes later on a 30-yard TD run by Sermon to secure the win for the Sooners, their eighth of the season and third in a row since losing to Texas. It was also OU’s 14th consecutive victory in the month of November.

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