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Oklahoma football: Sooners average 9.5 yards per play in pummeling UCLA

By Chip Rouse

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14: Jalen Hurts #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners runs over Stephan Blaylock #4 of the UCLA Bruins during the first half of a game on at the Rose Bowl on September 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14: Jalen Hurts #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners runs over Stephan Blaylock #4 of the UCLA Bruins during the first half of a game on at the Rose Bowl on September 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /
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With 12 and a half minutes gone in the opening quarter, Jalen Hurts hit a wide-open CeeDee Lamb on a 39-yard touchdown pass, opening up a 17-0 Sooner advantage, and this Oklahoma football game was effectively over.

For a third consecutive week, the Oklahoma offense sizzled, rolling up over 300 yards both on the ground and through the air and totaling more than 600 yards of total offense. Hurts accounted for 439 of that total, including a 30-yard touchdown run just over three minutes into the game for the Sooners’ opening score.

With the 48-14 win over winless UCLA, now 0-3 on the season, Oklahoma extended its nation-best consecutive win streak in true road games to 21 (the next longest is 10 by the University of Central Florida). The Sooners are now just four wins shy of matching the all-time OU record of 25, set by Bud Wilkinson’s teams between 1953 and 1958 during the record 47-game winning streak.

The Sooners scored 34 first-half points and led 34-7 after the first 30 minutes. The OU offense cooled off some in the second half, registering just seven points in both the third and fourth quarters, but the outcome of the game was never in doubt.

Once again, OU was able to rotate a lot of players into the game on both offense and defense.

Also for a third consecutive week. the Oklahoma defense forced a punt on the opponent’s opening possession and held the opponent scoreless in the opening quarter.

Here are a dozen more notable numbers that help tell the story of the game:

2 — Receiving touchdowns for both CeeDee Lamb and Charleston Rambo in the win over UCLA.

5 — The Sooner defense intercepted two passes in the game (Tre Brown and Ryan Jones), upping OU’s turnover total for the season to five. Oklahoma had 11 turnovers total all of last season.

6 — True freshman defensive back Jaden Davis led the Sooners with six solo tackles in the win over UCLA.

9 — Plays out of 16 by the Oklahoma offense in the first quarter that went for 15 or more yards.

12 — The loss was the 12th in 15 games under second-year UCLA head coach Chip Kelly.

13 — Touchdowns credited to Jalen Hurts through the first three games (nine passing and four rushing)

27-4-1 — Oklahoma’s all-time record as the No. 5-ranked team in the Associated Press Top 25.

99 — Rushing yards by Jalen Hurts on the Sooners’ opening drive against UCLA.

258 — Oklahoma’s total offensive yards in the first quarter of the UCLA game. That represents the second most in school history in the opening quarter.

300 — The Sooners rushed for more than 300 yards and passed for more than 300 for the 13th time in program history. They’ve done it eight times in the past two seasons and seven times in the last 10 games.

434 — Total yards of offense in the first half by Oklahoma. UCLA had 311 total yards for the game (202 of that total came in the second half).

52,578 — Attendance at the Rose Bowl for the OU-UCLA game on Saturday. That is 43,000 below capacity. A good percentage of the crowd in attendance were in the visitor’s school colors.

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