#5 Jan. 2, 2007 — West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28
Oklahoma was coming 0ff a huge 38-17 win over No. 1-ranked Missouri to capture the Big 12 Championship and went into its Fiesta Bowl matchup with No. 9 West Virginia (not yet a member of the Big 12) as the country’s No. 3 team. Unfortunately the momentum from the Sooners championship victory over Missouri didn’t carry over to the new year and the Fiesta Bowl.
West Virginia took a 6-0 first-quarter lead on a pair of long field goals and took a 20-6 advantage to the locker room at halftime. The only scoring OU could manage in the first half was a pair of field goals by Garrett Hartley.
Oklahoma scored the first nine points of the second half to narrow the deficit to 20-15, but West Virginia outscored the Sooners 28-14 the rest of the way, capping off the scoring on a 65-yard touchdown run by Noel Devine, for a 48-28 victory.
The Sooners never led in this game.
OU quarterback Sam Bradford, who was awarded the Heisman Trophy several weeks before, completed 21 of 33 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns, but the Sooners were unable to stop the West Virginia running attack. The Mountaineers amassed 349 yards on the ground, 150 of those rushing yards coming from quarterback Pat White.