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Oklahoma football: Five best Sooner games of the decade

By Chip Rouse

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Head Coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners speaks to Baker Mayfield
PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Head Coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners speaks to Baker Mayfield /
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LUBBOCK, TX – OCTOBER 22: Patrick Mahomes II #5 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders looks to pass the ball during the game against the Oklahoma Sooners on October 22, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma won the game 66-59. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX – OCTOBER 22: Patrick Mahomes II #5 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders looks to pass the ball during the game against the Oklahoma Sooners on October 22, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma won the game 66-59. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /

No. 4 — Oklahoma at Texas Tech, Oct. 22, 2016

This game was billed as a quarterback dual between two of the best quarterbacks in the country: Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield and Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech. There was little doubt coming in that this was going to be a high-scoring shootout, and the game lived up to every bit of the advance hype.

Oklahoma owned a 4-2 record coming into the game and was ranked 16th in the country. Texas Tech was 3-3 and unranked.

The Sooners led 13-10 after one quarter, and that would be the fewest combined points scored by the two teams in any quarter in this game.

It got to the point it appeared that if a team didn’t score on every possession that could well cost that team the game.

Mayfield threw for 545 yards and seven touchdowns and averaged 15.1 yards per completion. Mahomes threw an unbelievable 88 passes in the game, completing 55 of them for 734 yards and five touchdowns.

The two teams combined for an NCAA-record 1,708 yards of offense.

While balls for flying through the air at a record clip throughout the contest, OU’s Joe Mixon was producing a ground assault of his own. Mixon finished with 243 yards rushing and 114 receiving, including three rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns.

There wasn’t much defense in this game. When the dust finally settled, the busy scoreboard showed a final score of Oklahoma 65, Texas Tech 59.

There was only one punt attempted (by Texas Tech) the entire second half. The two teams combined for 10 consecutive second-half touchdowns, and none of the 10 touchdown drives took more took more than three minutes and 49 seconds.

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