on ESPN.Ĭontact/Follow us Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Oklahoma news, notes, and opinions.Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for two men who are wanted for questioning in connection with a robbery investigation. The Sooners could capture their 31st bowl game championship in program history when they play the Oregon Ducks on Dec. Of course, Oklahoma is looking to add to its overall collection of bowl championships in its 55th bowl game appearance. The Sooners also beat the Cowboys 37-20 in Norman to open the 1981 season. Oklahoma has played Wyoming one other time in its history. OU wide receiver Ryan Broyles had a big day with 13 receptions for 170 yards and a touchdown grab. Quarterback Landry Jones threw for an OU bowl game record 429 passing yards and three touchdowns. OU also won the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Day 2011, routing Connecticut 48-20 to end the 2010 season. Oklahoma’s 41-7 win over Wyoming represents the first of the Sooners’ five appearances in the Fiesta Bowl. OU intercepted Wyoming five times and recovered a Cowboys fumble. The Cowboys had 22 yards of offense in the first half. Shepard finished with 85 rushing yards on seven carries, while Peacock had 77 yards on eight rushes. OU fullback George Cumby added a 4-yard touchdown run and then halfback Woody Shepard had Oklahoma’s final points on an 8-yard rush. Peacock had a 29-yard run before he finished off the Sooners’ 82-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown scamper. That set the stage for Peacock to shine again. That was Peters’ first of two interceptions on the day to help him earn the game’s most outstanding defensive player award. Wyoming opened the second half with a big kickoff return, but the Cowboys’ drive came to an abrupt halt when OU cornerback Terry Peters intercepted Wyoming quarterback Don Clayton. Oklahoma’s Uwe Von Schamann added a pair of field goals in the second quarter of 32 and 50 yards. On OU’s second offensive series, Oklahoma halfback Horace Ivory ended a 10-play, 53-yard drive with a 4-yard touchdown run to increase the Sooners’ lead to 14-0 with 3:31 remaining in the first quarter. OU halfback Elvis Peacock capped that opening drive with a 3-yard touchdown plunge. Oklahoma took the game’s opening kickoff and marched 80 yards in 14 plays. “Thomas did a very good job executing the option and he deserves the outstanding offensive player trophy,” Switzer remarked after OU’s blowout win.
His coach said Lott was the deserving choice for offensive player of the game.
“We wanted to win big so we could play a lot of young people and show the nation just what kind of players we have,” Lott said afterward according to a Eugene-Register Guard story.
He guided OU’s wishbone attack and rushed for 79 yards on 13 carries. Quarterback Thomas Lott was one of the stars, capturing the most outstanding offensive player award. Oklahoma topped Wyoming, 41-7, on that Christmas Day in 1976, racking up 438 yards of offense. Wyoming was led by head coach Fred Akers who, after the bowl game, left to become the head coach at Texas (1977-86). OU was a three-touchdown favorite against the Cowboys. The Sooners were heavy favorites against a Wyoming team that was making its first postseason appearance in eight seasons after winning the Western Athletic Conference. Oklahoma entered the 1976 Fiesta Bowl as co-Big 8 champions after an 8-2-1 regular season. In a game billed as a battle of wishbone offenses, Oklahoma and head coach Barry Switzer left looking like the masters of it in the Sooners’ only Christmas Day bowl game in program history.
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