Big Red Beatdown: Oklahoma Hammers Nebraska

LINCOLN — No Sooner Magic. No historic showdown. 

Simply an epic beatdown, a lopsided mismatch in a once-great rivalry.

No. 6-ranked Oklahoma battered and brutalized their previous Massive Purple Rival Nebraska 49-14 on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

It was Oklahoma’s greatest win in Lincoln since a 48-0 blowout in 1949, and was essentially the most factors OU has ever scored on the Huskers in Lincoln.

The Huskers fired head coach Scott Frost on Sunday and absorbed his full, $15 million buyout, however that didn’t encourage the Huskers like many thought it could.

Nor did it dissuade the 3-0 Sooners from trampling the 1-3 Cornhuskers into the wealthy Nebraska soil.

As a participant and as an assistant coach at Kansas State, new Sooners head coach Brent Venables took loads of these kinds of beatings. Now he was on the profitable finish.

Nebraska truly jumped to a fast 7-0 lead after forcing an OU punt and sliding Trey Palmer behind the protection for a 32-yard landing reception.

However OU quarterback Dillon Gabriel might have damaged the Huskers spirit on the Sooners’ subsequent possession together with his second-down scramble that become an unlikely 61-yard landing dash. He felt just a little stress, left the pocket, beat the pursuit down the sideline, then made a tackler miss on the 10-yard line — and Nebraska was completed.

Gabriel completed 16-of-27 passing for 230 yards earlier than giving option to backup Davis Beville halfway by means of the third quarter.

Jalil Farooq caught his first profession landing, tight finish Brayden Willis threw a TD move to Marcus Main on a double-pass trick play, Eric Grey ran for greater than 100 yards and two touchdowns (he averaged greater than 10 yards per carry) and the OU protection tossed Huskers QB Casey Thompson round like a stuffed toy because the Sooners put collectively a whole victory.

Thompson accomplished 14-of-20 passes for 129 yards and a landing on the opening drive earlier than he was lifted early within the third quarter for backup Chubba Purdy.

At halftime, the Sooners held a dominating 35-7 lead, and have been up 355-to-148 in complete offense.

A lot of that was on account of Oklahoma’s eight tackles for loss and 4 quarterback sacks within the first half.

Freshman linebacker Jaren Kanak — who changed DaShaun White after White was ejected late within the first half for concentrating on — then opened the third quarter by stripping and recovering a fumble from huge receiver Palmer on the finish of a 21-yard completion. Kanak ended up main the Sooners with 10 tackles.

Grey cashed that possession in for his second straight TD, a 21-yard dash by means of the center of the forlorn Husker protection for a 42-7 OU lead.

It was Grey who completed the primary half a lot the identical approach, just about untouched on a 15-yard TD proper earlier than halftime.

Taking part in with a lineup of largely backups because the lead ballooned to 49-7 within the third quarter, Oklahoma dedicated its first turnover of the season on a botched handoff between Beville and Gavin Freeman.

OU historian Mike Brooks stated final week that the Sooners hadn’t been turnover-free of their first two video games to open a season since 1937.