Oklahoma football: Five worst losses of the 2010-19 decade
By Chip Rouse
No. 3 — Jan. 4, 2013 — #10 Texas A&M 41, #12 Oklahoma 13
Oklahoma found itself up against a one-man band in the player known as “Johnny Football” in the 2013 Cotton Bowl Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlingtonm Texas, and the Sooners had no answer for him in a 41-13 Texas A&M victory.
Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel ran through and around Oklahoma defenders, and when the running lanes weren’t there, he found one of five Aggie receivers for big-play yardage through the air.
Manziel accounted for a bowl-record 516 of A&M’s game-high 633 yards of total offense. He completed 22 of 34 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns, and carried the ball 17 times, averaging close to 14 yards per attempt, for another 229 yards and a pair of rushing touchdowns.
Oklahoma gained 401 yards of offense, 278 of that total coming from the arm of senior quarterback Landry Jones, who was making his 50th career start for the Sooners.
Texas A&M possessed the ball for nearly 14 more minutes than OU, but ran 17 fewer plays.
After the game, Sooner head coach Bob Stoops was quoted as saying, “Johnny Manziel is everything he was billed to be, expected him to be.”
Although the Aggies appeared to be dominating the game from the start, they led by just a single point, 14-13, at halftime. A&M came out after halftime, however, and scored on its first three possession to break the game wide open.