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Oklahoma football: Sooners’ outgained by 4 yards but win by 3 TDs

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma's Caleb Williams (13) lines up for a play during a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the TCU Horned Frogs at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Oklahoma won 52-31.Ou Vs Tcu
Oklahoma's Caleb Williams (13) lines up for a play during a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the TCU Horned Frogs at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Oklahoma won 52-31.Ou Vs Tcu /
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For the second week in a row, the Oklahoma football offense put up more than 50 points in a 52-31 win at home over TCU.

And for just the second time in seven games — all Oklahoma wins — the Sooners winning margin was more than seven points. The other OU win this season that was greater than seven points doesn’t really count, though, because it came against an FCS opponent that had no business on the same field with Oklahoma. The Sooners won that one 76-0.

TCU outgained Oklahoma 529 yards to 525, but the Sooners were still able to win by a three-touchdown margin.

Oklahoma’s next two games — at Kansas and at home against Texas Tech — are games the Sooners’ should win. That would make them 9-0 heading into a bye week before having to go to Baylor on Nov. 13.

Here are a dozen notable numbers that help tell the story of the Sooners’ win over TCU.

3 — Jordan Haselwood’s three touchdown catches was a career high. The last Oklahoma receiver to have three touchdown catches in a single game was CeeDee Lamb in 2019. Quentin Johnston of TCU also had three TD catches in the game. Haselwood caught six passes in the game, also a career high.

7 — Number of times Oklahoma has started 7-0 since the 2000 season. The Sooners have started 7-0 21 different times in their history.

8 — Oklahoma has now won eight consecutive games against TCU and is 10-1 over the Horned Frogs since they joined the Big 12.

9.1 — Average yards per play in Oklahoma’s win over TCU, a season high.

15 — Consecutive wins by the Sooners since the fourth game of the 2020 season, the longest active streak in college football.

41 — Caleb Williams had a 41-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, the first in his collegiate career.

59 — Michael Woods hauled in a 59-yard pass from Caleb Williams in the second quarter, setting the Sooners up at the TCU four-yard line. It was the longest OU pass play of the season.

59.7 — Punting average by OU’s Michael Turk on three punts in the TCU game is the best punting average in a single game in Sooner football history for a minimum of three punts.

295 — Caleb Williams’ 295 passing yards and four passing touchdowns were the most ever by a Sooner true freshman quarterback.

336 — Passing yards for TCU quarterback Max Duggan along with four touchdown passes, both career bests.

525 — Oklahoma had 525 yards of total offense against TCU. This was the 57th time in 86 games since the start of the 2015 season that OU has recorded 500 or more yards of offense in a game.

1990 — The last time a true freshman started at quarterback for Oklahoma (Cale Gundy, now an assistant on Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff)

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