Oklahoma's viral 34-0 win is just the beginning of mind-boggling numbers already this season

Even by Patty Gasso standards, this 2026 Oklahoma softball team can smash the ball.

The Sooners are off to an 8-1 start to the season after going 5-0 this past weekend with nothing but run rules during their trip to New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The weekend included victories over Montana, New Mexico State, Minnesota, Idaho State and UTEP while outscoring opponents by a combined 91-9.

The trip was headlined by Sunday's viral beat down of UTEP with a 34-0 score that mirrored a football game. In fact, the OU softball team in that outing scored more than OU football did in any of its SEC games in 2025. And that's only the beginning of the Sooners' mind-boggling numbers through two weekends of the 2026 season.

Sooners off to historic home-run pace in 2026

Through nine games, OU as a team is batting .462, which is second in college softball, with a .559 on-base percentage and 1.514 OPS. That includes a nation-leading 38 home runs as the Sooners are averaging 4.2 homers a game right now. The next team is UCLA with eight less home runs at 30 despite playing one more game than OU. Florida is third with 25, but has had three more games than the Sooners.

For comparison, as the Sooners are averaging 4.2 homers a game, the 2021 OU softball team holds the record for most home runs in a season at 159 while averaging 2.65 a game. The Sooners' bats will likely simmer, especially in SEC play, but even that average getting cut in half would nearly be enough to match the record.

The multiple blowouts over the weekend opened opportunities for multiple reserves to get at-bats. Of the 14 players to take a swing so far for OU, every single one of them has hit at least one ball over the fence. Tia Milloy and Chaney Helton don't even have double-digit at-bats yet, but Milloy already has two homers and Helton has one.

Sophomore shortstop Gabbie Garcia leads the Sooners with seven home runs, which is tied for fourth in the country, but every player ahead of Garcia on the list has appeared in more games and logged more at-bats. After Garcia for OU is junior outfielder Kasidi Pickering with five long balls, plus a .526 batting average.

The Sooners also lead college softball in on-base percentage (.559), runs batted in (124), RBIs per game (13.78), scoring (13.89), slugging percentage (.951) and total runs (125).

Since this OU softball team has already put up a score comparable to football, this 2026 squad is equivalent to, if not better than, the 2018 OU offense that averaged 59.1 points a game with the likes of Kyler Murray, Hollywood Brown, CeeDee Lamb and Trey Sermon.