The Sixth Time's The Charm

Maybe now Bob Stoops and the Sooners can stop answering questions about their BCS bowl woes after taking down Connecticut 48-20 in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl on Saturday night.  Oklahoma finally lived up to the massive point spread that was expected of them coming into a Fiesta Bowl matchup and won a BCS game after five straight losses.

  Landry Jones had a fantastic night, passing for 429 yards and three touchdowns.  He completed his first 12 passes.  (Actually, he completed his first 13, if you count the pass complete to Connecticut’s Dwayne Gratz, who returned it for a touchdown.)  With this big performance, Jones has surpassed Sam Bradford’s mark for passing yards in a season.

  Jones found six different receivers with his 34 completions.  Ryan Broyles led that group with 13 receptions for 170 yards and touchdown.  Like OSU’s Justin Blackmon, there is much speculation about the receiver’s future in college.

  Senior running back Demarco Murray closed out his Sooner career in style with 25 carries for 93 yards.  Although he didn’t quite reach the 100-yard milestone in this game, he did cross the goal line for a touchdown, which was his 50th career touchdown.

  The Sooners kept the UConn offense out of the endzone.  This extended the Huskies’ offensive struggles, who have now gone over eight quarters without an offensive TD.  UConn got points from Gratz’ pick six and Robbie Frey’s 95-yard touchdown on a kickoff return.

  With as much youth as Oklahoma has returning for the 2011 season, many people are already pointing the possibilities of the Sooners playing for a national title again in a little over a year.