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‘Short pants’ Sandell kicks OU to big win

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Kicker Tate Sandell ripped his pants warming up at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on Saturday night, causing him to hike his pants up so they wouldn’t fall down and giving him a bare-legged look when he went on to make field goals — from 40, 51 and two from 55 yards — to kick the Sooners to a 33-27 win and keep Oklahoma’s playoff chances alive.

Sandell said afterward he didn’t know the pants were so high until after the game. No matter, he may not fix the pants. No sense in messing with the Juju.

“I’m not going to say I’ll change it, because it’s working,” Sandell said.

Sandell’s most valuable player performance set a stadium record and kept playoff chances alive for Oklahoma (now 7-2).

“Probably the MVP. An absolute animal,” Coach Brent Venables said of Sandell.

The Sooners’ offense was stumbling in the first half, managing only 99 yards before intermission. But three Tennessee turnovers that were forced by a tenacious Sooners defense — which also stuffed the Vols run game (only 63 yards on 35 attempts) — kept Oklahoma in the game and with a 16-10 lead at half.

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4th quarter fumble takes air out of Boomer Sooner balloon, OU falls to Ol’ Miss 34-26

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With 7:11 left in the game, Isaiah Sategna began his punt return — riding the momentum that a revived offense and a stingy defense had presented after the halftime intermission, which saw the Sooners outscoring eighth-ranked Mississippi 16-3 in the third quarter.

The Sooners were behind 31-26, but despite a sloppy offensive performance most of the game, Sategna’s punt return presented the best opportunity for good field position when the Sooners needed it most.

Four seconds later, as his speedy wheels took him to the 50 yard line — a perfect place to launch the Sooners to a comeback winning drive — Sategna instead launched himself, hurdling an Ol’ Miss defender.

And on his way down, in that next second, at 7:04 on the clock, he fumbled.

The hope-filled balloon of those previous six seconds, the ones that carried a chance to take an Oklahoma lead late in the game and, if held, a win that would solidify the Sooners’ play off chances, burst.

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Sooners rush to 26-7 win over Gamecocks

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In its first true SEC road game of the season Oklahoma finally found its rushing game, led by RB Tory Blaylock, who started the Sooners off with an 18-yard touchdown run to end a 75-yard opening drive.

The Sooners never looked back. With a dominant defense that had Gamecocks QB LaNorris Sanders scrambling all day, Oklahoma went on to a 26-7 win in its first ever appearance in the state of South Carolina.

Blaylock finished the day with 101 yards on 19 carries. Xavier Robinson had 58 yards on 11 carries.

It was an important win for Oklahoma, coming off the previous week’s disappointing loss to Texas (where they managed just 48 yards rushing) and a week before a strong Mississippi team comes to Norman. The Sooners are now 6-1, with a 2-1 SEC record.

“I saw a hungry and angry football team…they were hangry,” Coach Brent Venables in his post-game interview.

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