The Game
• Fresh off a convincing home victory over FCS Idaho State, Oklahoma is home for a second straight week.
• Game festivies include recognition of the 2008 OU women’s basketball team, which won the Big 12 Championship and advanced
to the NCAA Final Four.
• Like Oklahoma, Tulsa is coming off a victory, a 44-10 thrashing of New Mexico at Alburqurque. This is the third straight road game
for the Golden Hurricane, who whalloped Tulane in the opener, 37-13.
The Series
•Oklahoma leads it, 15-7-1, including a 9-3-1 mark in Norman. The Sooners have won the last four games in the series.
The Coaches
• Oklahoma: Bob Stoops (Iowa ‘83) is 110-25 in his 11th season. He is 72-14 vs. the Big 12, 39-10 vs. the Big 12 South, 33-4 vs. the
Big 12 North, 6-1 in the Big 12 title game, 38-11 vs. non-conference opponents, 61-2 at home, 32-11 on the road, 17-12 on neutral
fi elds, 33-13 vs. ranked opponents, 4-6 in bowls. He is 3-0 vs. Tulsa.
• Tulsa: Todd Graham is in his third year at Tulsa with a record of 23-5. He is 0-1 vs. Oklahoma.
The Program
• Oklahoma’s all-time record stands at 792-297-53 in 115 seasons. Since WWII, OU leads the nation with 556 victories.
• The Sooners have captured seven national championships (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000).
• OU has 42 bowl appearances (No. 7 nationally) with 24 bowl victories (No. 4 nationally).
• Oklahoma has 42 conference championships, including the last three Big 12 Conference crowns and six Big 12 titles overall (no
other league member has more than two)
• OU has produced 148 All-Americans and five Heisman Trophy winners. Sooners have also won the Bednarik (1), Butkus (4),
Walter Camp (4), Lombardi (3), Maxwell (2), Nagurski (2), O’Brien (3), (Outland (5), Tatupu (1), Thorpe (3) and Unitas (1) Awards.
• With 31, 10-win seasons, OU leads the nation in total number of years in which the team achieved double-digit victories.
• Oklahoma’s best decade for of total victories came in the 1970’s when the Sooners were 102-13-3 (.877). In the 2000’s, OU is
103-20-0 (.837).
THIS WEEK’S OPPONENT
• Tulsa has won the last two West Division titles in
Conference USA and also captured both of the last two
GMAC Bowl titles. The only Big 12 foe for TU during that
stretch was Oklahoma, which took a 62-21 decision at
Tulsa in 2007.
• The Golden Hurricane led the nation in total offense in
each of the last two seasons with 534.9 and 569.9 yards,
respectively.
• Last year’s team won a school record 11 games.
• This year’s team returns seven starters on offense and
eight on defense.
• TU quarterback G.J. Kinne sat out last season after
transferring from Texas. He redshirted at UT in 2007 and
never played against Oklahoma.
TIES WITH THIS WEEK’S OPPONENT
• LB Mike Bryan, who leads Tulsa with 18 tackles, is the
son of the late Rick Bryan, an All-America defensive end
for Oklahoma in 1982 and 1983. Rick passed away on
July 25, 2009.
• Oklahoma defensive ends coach Chris Wilson was an
assistant coach at Illinois State (1998-99) at the time that
TU cornerbacks coach Galen Scott played linebacker for
the Redbirds. Tulsa grad Todd Berry, now the offensive
coordinator at UNLV, was the head coach of that Illinois
State team. When Wilson left ISU to join the Colorado
staff after the 1999 season, he was replaced by Paul
Randolph, who is now the senior associate head coach
at TU.
• Sooner defensive backs Dominique Franks and
Emmanuel Jones played high school football at Tulsa
Union. They were coached there by Bill Blankenship, who
is now the assistant head coach at Tulsa.
HOME STREAK RECORD TIED
• Oklahoma has won 25 straight home games, the longest
current streak in the nation, and a mark that equals the
school record. The earlier record string ended in 1953
with a loss in the season opener to Notre Dame, 28-21.
• Bob Stoops’ teams are 61-2 at home and the Sooners
have won 45 of their last 46 on Owen Field.
• Other long OU home streaks and the years they ended
include 21 (1975), 20 (1957).
• The other longest home winning streak under Stoops
were 22, 19, 19.
• With its current home field winning streak, Oklahoma is
still less than halfway to the NCAA record for consecutive
wins at home. Miami (Fla.) holds that mark at 58 from
1985-94.
• Even if Oklahoma was to win each of its six home games
this season and run the streak to 30 in a row, the Sooners
would rank just 19th on the all-time home field streak
list.
• Oklahoma’s all-time record at its current facility,
which opened in 1923, is 343-78-15. That’s a winning
percentage of .804.
OKLAHOMA’S MOST RECENT GAME
• Oklahoma blasted Idaho State, 64-0, last Saturday in
its rain-soaked home opener. It was the 10th shutout
posted by OU during Bob Stoops’ 11 seasons as head
coach.
• Making his first start, QB Landry Jones completed 18-
of-32 passes for 286 yards with three touchdowns and
one interception. The yardage figure was the fourth-best
by a Sooner freshman.
• Oklahoma rushed for 278 yards, including 101 by
DeMarco Murray. Murray carried 12 times and scored
two touchdowns.
• The receiving star was Ryan Broyles, who had seven
grabs for 155 yards and three touchdowns. The TD
catches mark equalled the most ever by a Sooner wide
receiver in a game. Broyles finished with 155 all-purpose
yards, the fifth-best total ever by an OU WR.
• True freshman Jonathan Miller came off the bench
to rush nine times for 88 yards, including a 36-yard
touchdown scamper.
• The Sooner defense tied a school record with 17 tackles
for loss. Those tackles went for -52 yards. The 1983 team
also had 17 tackles for loss against Kansas State.
• The OU defense scored when Gerald McCoy forced a
fumble that Frank Alexander recovered at the three and
then ran to the end zone. It was the 33rd defensive
touchdown of the Stoops era.
• For the second straight season, the Sooners pinned a
safety on their opponent in the home opener.