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Irish D stifles Sooner offense, wins 30-13

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The Sooner faithful — more than 86,000 strong — responded to a call to “stripe the stadium” by donning colors to create alternating red and white sections.

The country’s largest American flag was unfurled over Owen Field in a spectacular pre-game show that had even visiting Notre Dame fans in awe.

And a sea of swirling towels and the loudest crowd heard in Norman in years confronted the Fighting Irish.

But, nothing stopped a tough Notre Dame team that came to town to show America why it deserves to be considered in the national championship talk, defeating No. 7 Oklahoma 30-13 on Saturday.

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I’ll be channeling my dad against the Irish

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Back in the 1950s, like most everyone else in Oklahoma, Dad was a serious OU football fan.

On fall Saturday mornings, he and one of his buddies from Eufaula would load into the Chevy, pull onto Highway 9 and journey to Norman to watch Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners ring up another victory.

I know this because Dad told me.

And I saw his collection of game programs, which proved he’d been at the games. He owned boxes full of game programs, all in good condition. Dad kept them stacked neatly in his rolltop desk.

He let me, an 8-year-old who didn’t know better, sort through them.

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Sooners on a roll, Fighting Irish up next

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After Oklahoma’s 52-7 shellacking of the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday the Sooners advanced to No. 7 in the lastest Coaches Poll and No. 8 in the AP poll — setting the stage for a major showdown against the undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Norman this week.

The Notre Dame game will be at 7 pm, with ESPN’s College Gameday coming from the OU campus.

It will be the first visit to Norman for the Fighting Irish since 1966.

Oklahoma’s game against Kansas was highlighted by Landry Jones throwing for 291 yards and three touchdowns and the Sooner kicking game, which accounted for a kickoff return and a punt return for touchdowns in the same game for the first time in school history.

Justin Brown made up for a lost fumble on his previous punt return by running his next chance back 90 yards and diving at the pylon for the score.

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