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Oklahoma football: Numbers in plentiful supply as TCU embarrasses OU

By Chip Rouse

Oct 1, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; TCU Horned Frogs running back Emari Demercado (3) runs with the ball past Oklahoma Sooners defensive back Key Lawrence (12) during the first half at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 1, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; TCU Horned Frogs running back Emari Demercado (3) runs with the ball past Oklahoma Sooners defensive back Key Lawrence (12) during the first half at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Oklahoma football program has a lot of soul searching to do, not to mention medical triage, after suffering its worst regular-season loss since 2016.

Oklahoma gave up 59 points to Texas Tech in a classic shootout between Baker Mayfield and Patrick Mahomes, eventually won by the Sooners, 66-59.

The Sooners were torched for 668 yards by a TCU offense that was able to do virtually anything it wanted against an Oklahoma defense that appeared totally clueless of how to stem the tsunami that was unfolding.

Quite frankly, it was as if OU was not fully awake for the early 11 a.m. road kickoff, turning the ball over with a short field when Marvin Mims fumbled after catching a pass across the OU 40-yard line on the very first possession of the game.

For Sooner fans, it was one of the ugliest performances by an OU team in several decades. Not that there weren’t other poor performances or three-score losses in recent history, but for a lot of reasons the blowout in Fort Worth on Saturday was more difficult to take.

It wasn’t just the defense that was in total collapse, though. The OU the offense was uncharacteristically erratic and out of kilter throughout, and then, of course, the reeling Sooners had to play the entire second half with their back-up quarterback.

Enough commentary already. Here are eight more compelling numbers that sadly tell the story of the game:

4 — TCU marched 46 yards to score a touchdown in just over two minutes after recovering an Oklahoma fumble on the Sooners’ opening possession. This is the fourth week that an OU opponent has scored first.

5 — The loss was just the fifth suffered by Oklahoma in its last 34 true road games.

8 — The TCU victory snapped an eight-game Oklahoma winning streak against the Horned Frogs. TCU’s last win over OU before Saturday was in 2014.

11 — Eleven different TCU receivers caught passes in the game, including seven by WR Derius Davis.

33 — The Sooners were just 6 of 18 on third-down conversions (33 percent), and 1 of 3 on fourth-down tries.

60 — TCU had two touchdown runs of greater than 60 yards (67 by QB Max Duggan and 69 by RB Kendre Miller)

78 — Dillion Gabriel connected with Brayden Willis on a 78-yard pass to the TCU one-yard line late in the first quarter. The Sooners scored on the next play. It was the longest play from scrimmage by the Sooners this season.

100 — True freshman Jovantae Barnes rushed for 100 yards for the Sooners and scored two touchdowns. It was the first 100-yard game of his career.

237 — Yards of offense by TCU in the first quarter of Saturday’s game. The Horned Frogs scored 27 points and averaged 11.8 yards per play in the opening 15 minutes.

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