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Numbers inside Texas Longhorns’ huge win over the Oklahoma

Written by ABC AUDIO on October 9, 2022

The Oklahoma Sooners might be down bad. They were destroyed by the Texas Longhorns in the 2022 edition of the Red River Showdown.

The 49-point loss comes a week after the Sooners lost by 30 to the TCU Horned Frogs. Oklahoma is now 3-3 after starting 3-0 and has given up 40-plus points in each of its losses.

In the history of this rivalry, it’s usually the Sooners who have scored big in Dallas. They’ve scored 60 or more against Texas three times since 2000. But Saturday, it was all Longhorns. Texas QB Quinn Ewers, who had not played since being injured against Alabama in Week 2, returned with a big performance. He threw for 289 yards and four touchdowns.

Athletes from OU’s rivals were quick to pile on, too.

Here’s a look at the big numbers from this OU-Texas game:

49: The 49 points are the most the Longhorns have scored in the series. It’s also Texas’ largest margin of victory over Oklahoma. The previous high was 33 points done in 1941 and 2005.

30: After losing 55-24 last week and 49-0 this week, Oklahoma has now lost consecutive games by 30 points or more for the first time in program history. This was the 24th time Oklahoma lost by 30 or more.

311: The last time Oklahoma was shut out came Nov. 7, 1998. Saturday’s loss ends a streak of 311 consecutive games for Oklahoma without being held scoreless. Texas last shut out Oklahoma in 1965.

167: Oklahoma had scored an offensive touchdown in 167 straight games. That was the longest active streak in FBS. It’s a far cry from the offensive powerhouse OU has been in previous years. The Sooners produced two Heisman Trophy-winning QBs in the past six years.

1945: The loss Saturday is now the worst shutout loss in OU history. It supplants a 47-0 loss to Oklahoma State in 1945.

Texas’ offense rolled up 595 total yards on a woeful OU defense while Texas’ defense held the Sooners to just 195 yards.

267: Bijan Robinson, the Longhorns’ star running back, has run all over Oklahoma in the past two seasons, amassing 267 yards and three touchdowns. He had 130 Saturday and had plenty of room to run. Of those 130 yards, 86 came before contact.

9: Ewers faced little heat from the Sooners. He was pressured on just nine of his 33 dropbacks. He completed 7 of 8 passes against pressure for 67 yards and a TD. With tons of time to throw, Ewers was able to throw downfield. Ewers went 9-of-14 on passes thrown 10 or more yards downfield for 168 yards and three scores. That’s tied for the sixth-most such completions in a game by a Texas QB in the past 10 seasons.

2014: Texas’ defense was outstanding. It was the first time OU was held under 250 total yards since 2014. The Sooners completed just nine passes for 39 yards. They had 32 at halftime, their fewest since 2014. That was also the season before Lincoln Riley was hired to run OU’s offense. The Longhorns got three sacks and intercepted two passes Saturday.

3-3: This is Oklahoma’s worst record through six games since 2009. The three straight losses is the longest losing streak for the Sooners since 1998. The Sooners would eventually lose five straight in that season, which was also the last time OU finished under .500.

5 takeaways from the Oklahoma Sooners’ blowout loss to the Texas Longhorns

After the Oklahoma Sooners dropped their first two games of conference play, things weren’t looking good, especially when they lost Dillon Gabriel a week ago in the loss to TCU. Their loss to Texas continues a run of play that is absolutely shocking.

Oklahoma has gone 0-3 in Big 12 play for the first time since 1998. It isn’t simply that they’ve lost. It’s how they’ve lost these three games. The Sooners have allowed 45.33 points per game in the three losses, and they’ve gotten progressively worse.

The quicksand that the Sooners are in turned into a pit of despair this week as the Sooners were dominated by the Texas Longhorns, 49-0, in the Cotton Bowl.

Aside from the opening drive three-and-out forced by the defense, the Oklahoma Sooners couldn’t do anything on either side of the football against the Texas Longhorns.

Oklahoma’s defense got beat by a methodical offensive approach by Steve Sarkisian and Quinn Ewers. And the offense, without starting quarterback Dillon Gabriel, resorted to trick plays and the wildcat to find some semblance of offense with next to no success.

Disappointment doesn’t quite cover what happened on Saturday in the Cotton Bowl. This team was absolutely dominated and embarrassed.

Without Dillon Gabriel, the Sooners basically had no offense. They tried running the wildcat, and it worked for a while. They tried some trick plays, which didn’t work at all, and the offense couldn’t really do anything.

Oklahoma couldn’t push the ball down the field, and when they did look to throw beyond the line of scrimmage, either people didn’t get open or the quarterback held on to the ball too long. Davis Beville was just 6 of 12 for 38 yards and it was evident they didn’t trust him to throw the ball much.

Jeff Lebby tried to get the offense going, but at times he got away from things that were working in the run game.

Too often, the Oklahoma Sooners offense looked like a team playing afraid to lose.

For the third straight game, this Oklahoma Sooners’ defense has been bad. They’re not getting any pressure on the quarterback, and the coverage hasn’t been good down the field, either.

Quinn Ewers looked way too comfortable in the pocket for a quarterback playing in the Red River Showdown for the first time.

Oklahoma’s defense allowed 49 points, 585 total yards, 7.2 yards per play, and Texas went 10 of 15 on third down in this game.

The Sooners’ defense didn’t record a sack and had just four tackles for loss in the game.

When we thought it couldn’t get any worse, it got much, much worse. After losses to Kansas State and TCU took the wind out of the sails of a 3-0 start, this loss to Texas was easily the worst.

What happened on Saturday was shocking. And it wasn’t just because they didn’t have their starting quarterback.

After allowing 42, 55 and 49 points in the last three games, the Sooners have a lot of questions to answer moving forward.

With Brent Venables’ success at Clemson, there were much higher expectations for this defense, even if it didn’t become a great unit right away. Even the person that thought they may take a step back didn’t expect this.

If there was ever a week for the Sooners to show that they were more than the doormat of the Big 12 in 2022, this was the week. And yet, they got steamrolled by their biggest rival.

Even late in the game, when Texas was simply running the football and killing clock, the Sooners couldn’t stop the Longhorns. It didn’t matter the down and distance. Texas just ran right over and right through Oklahoma’s defense, even with several starters on the field.

Brent Venables may have a great culture and strength and conditioning program. He may be a great defensive mind. But none of that is translating to the football field.

They’ve got a long way to go to bring this program back to being a conference title contender.

Texas vs. Oklahoma final score: Longhorns beat the Sooners 49-0, the largest margin in school history

In a rare development in the Red River Showdown, the Texas Longhorns are favored against the Oklahoma Sooners for the first time since 2009 as the Longhorns try to end a four-game losing streak in the rivalry. Meanwhile, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is looking for only his second win away from Austin since arriving on the Forty Acres against an Oklahoma team reeling after two straight losses.

Pre-game
As reported earlier in the week by ESPN and other outlets, redshirt freshman quarterback Quinn Ewers will start on Saturday after missing the last three-plus games with the clavicle injury he sustained against Alabama, Sarkisian told Longhorn Network.

The status of Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel is less clear after the UCF transfer was in concussion protocol this week after leaving the loss to TCU — Gabriel dressed for the game and is going through pre-game warmups.

A handful of other players banged up last week are also dressed and appear set to play, including running back Eric Gray.

On defense, safety Bill Bowman will not play for the Sooners.

First quarter
With Oklahoma winning the toss and deferring to the second half, the beleaguered Sooners defense was able to get a three and out against the Longhorns to start the game when Ewers missed tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders on a crossing route and settled for a check down to running back Roschon Johnson, who was tackled behind the line of scrimmage.

Oklahoma was able to pick up a first down, by tight end Brayden Willis on a 3rd and 4 slant, but the Texas defense held after that as quarterback Davis Beville threw two incompletions sandwiched around a push pass to wide receiver Drake Stoops that the Horns stopped for no gain.

Following a first-down catch by wide receiver Jordan Whittington, Sanders took a short pass down the sideline for the game’s first explosive play. Initially ruled as a 29-yard gain, review overturned the play, bringing it back 13 yards. As Texas went tempo, running back Bijan Robinson ran for a first down, Ewers found Whittington for 22 yards, and Johnson moved the chains again by trucking an Oklahoma defender to move into the red zone. After a screen pass to Worthy picked up a first down near the goal line, Robinson scored on a two-yard run to cap the 12-play, 90-yard drive.

With Gabriel out, Oklahoma debuted a Wildcat formation with tight end Brayden Willis as the triggerman, gaining 35 yards on the first two plays. As the Longhorns defense adjusted, the Sooners had to convert a 4th and 2 to pick up the next first down before Beville returned to the game. A tackle for loss by Texas nose tackle Keondre Coburn forced a 3rd and 9 for Oklahoma. When Stoops caught a pass for a six-yard gain, the Sooners lined up to go for it on fourth down, but had to call a timeout as the play clock ticked down. Coming out of the timeout, Oklahoma called a fake field goal and picked up the first down on a throw from the holder to the kicker that narrowly made the yard to gain. On 4th and 1 from the Texas eight-yard line, the Horns were able to stop Gray as T’Vondre Sweat got penetration to hit Gray in the backfield and turn Oklahoma over on downs.

Second quarter
Facing a critical 3rd and 1 to start the second quarter, Johnson turned in another physical run for a seven-yard gain and Ewers hit Whittington for 13 yards. Then a misdirection run fake screen to Johnson hit up the right sideline for 38 yards. After a throw to running back Keilan Robinson for 13 yards, Ewers threw a 10-yard touchdown to wide receiver Xavier Worthy on a run-pass option glance route.

Another Wildcat formation used Gray behind center to get into Texas territory before Marcus Majors took over and the Longhorns inflicted a negative play on a push pass. On 3rd and 10, Beville threw an incomplete pass to force a punt in an area where the Sooners wanted to gain enough yards for a potential fourth-down conversion.

Able to stand clean in the pocket, Ewers completed a 22-yard pass to Whittington to open the drive, extended on a beautiful throw and catch from Ewers to Robinson as the Texas quarterback had to roll left to find his running back, who made a sensational catch. Three runs by Robinson picked up another first down as the Longhorns offense remained in rhythm and at tempo. Behind a physical block by Whittington, Keilan Robinson maintained the momentum with a 15-yard touchdown catch to make it 21-0.

A quick three and out by Oklahoma put Texas in position to bury the Sooners, but three incomplete passes resulted in a three and out for the Longhorns, too.

Back in the Wildcat formation, Oklahoma found some rhythm offensively, moving the ball into the Texas red zone on the ground, but when Gray tried a jump pass, Longhorns junior nickel back Jahdae Barron came up with the interception on a poor throw by the Sooners running back.

Suddenly, the Texas offense lost its rhythm as Robinson was stopped in the backfield for a loss and center Jake Majors committed a false start penalty to put the Longhorns in a 3rd and 11 situation. After a timeout by Oklahoma, Ewers was forced to climb the pocket and scrambled for the first down. The Longhorns quarterback converted another third down with a pass to tight end Gunnar Helm, then drew a pass interference penalty when Worthy was cynically knocked down in the end zone to save a potential touchdown. Suddenly back in rhythm, Ewers dropped a beautiful throw to Sanders down the seam for a 24-yard touchdown and a 28-0 lead.

Trying to pick up some points before halftime, Beville was intercepted by Texas cornerback D;Shawn Jamison to gives the Longhorns a little bit more momentum heading into the break.

Third quarter
Desperate to score some points, Oklahoma went for it on 4th and 2 from their own 44-yard line, but Texas defended the play well, taking away any passing lanes for Beville, who was forced to scramble and was tackled for a yard loss.

First downs from Robinson and Johnson moved the Longhorns to the edge of the red zone before Ewers put a ball a little bit too high for Whittington, who was wide open on a fake screen. On 3rd and 9, Ewers tried to throw the ball away under pressure, but it was intercepted when he wasn’t able to get it out of bounds.

The turnover didn’t hurt the Longhorns as the Sooners remained conservative in the Wildcat and the Texas defense shut it down on three straight runs, a surprising decision even with the struggles of Beville.

Another touch pass from Ewers, this time to Whittington, gained 32 yards before a 15-yard gain by Worthy moved the Longhorns back into the red zone, where Robinson converted with an 11-yard touchdown run to extend the lead to 35-0.

Intent to lean on Oklahoma, Texas was able to continue gaining positive yards following another three and out by the Sooners, highlighted by a physical 17-yard run by Johnson.

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Ewers finished the drive for a 42-0 lead with an 18-yard touchdown pass to Sanders as the Oklahoma defense doubled Worthy.

And the defense continued to play at a high level, closing out the third quarter with a sack of Beville by defensive tackle Byron Murphy to force the fourth three and out of the game by the Sooners offense.

Fourth quarter
A five-play, 54-yard drive by Texas was all on the ground with backups, including running back Jonathon Brooks, who picked up a 3rd and 9 on the ground, then scored on an 18-yard run.

The defense kept up its intensity, sacking Beville twice on the ensuing drive — one by Sweat and one shared by edge Justice Finkley and nose tackle Keondre Coburn.

With the second-team offensive line in the game, Brooks moved the chains on three runs, allowing third-string quarterback Charles Wright to get some playing time, leading to a missed field goal attempt by Bert Auburn.

Following extended garbage time, Texas defeated Oklahoma 49-0, the largest margin in school history, the first time the Sooners have been shut out by the Longhorns since 1965, and the worst ever shutout loss for Oklahoma.

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