{"id":4429,"date":"2011-11-26T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2011-11-26T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:15:14","slug":"sooners-fend-off-cyclones-26-6-in-blustery-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Sooners stuff Cyclones 26-6 in blustery Norman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Wind gusts of up to 40 mph<\/strong> didn’t help offenses much, but No. 9 Oklahoma managed to get enough points to fend of a less productive Iowa State offense.\u00a0 The Sooners’ 26-6 win over the Cyclones sets up a\u00a0Bedlam showdown for the Big 12 championship next week in Stillwater.<\/p>\n

Landry Jones threw for 256 yards, Blake Bell punched in two short touchdown runs and the Sooners limited Iowa State to a season-low 245 yards in a 26-6 victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rebounding after allowing a school-record 616 yards allowed last week in a 45-38 loss at Baylor, Oklahoma only let the Cyclones (6-5, 3-5 Big 12) score after James Winchester’s snap sailed over the head of punter Tress Way in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma will visit Oklahoma State (No. 4 BCS, No. 5 AP) — with the nation’s second-highest scoring offense — next week with the winner earning the Big 12 title.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a bigger challenge in front of us. Maybe we aren’t on a national championship run but we do have a shot at the Big 12,” nickel back Tony Jefferson said.<\/p>\n

“We knew that this whole week and we knew we had to persevere and fight through all that.”<\/p>\n

Trey Franks finished with 88 yards rushing on two long reverses to set up scores for the Sooners (9-2, 6-2), and Michael Hunnicutt matched his career-high with four field goals on a difficult day for offense.<\/p>\n

Each team turned it over<\/strong> four times in a game played in front of thousands of empty seats at sold-out Owen Field, with sustained winds of over 30 mph and gusting to more than 40 mph. The game-time winds were the strongest in Norman since a 1964 loss against Southern California.<\/p>\n

“Obviously there’s plays out there that were left on the field. I didn’t play very well today but I played good enough to win a game,” said Jones, who threw two interceptions and went without a touchdown pass for the second straight game.<\/p>\n

“The weather was tough, but you’ve got to overcome things in this game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wind gusts of up to 40 mph didn’t help offenses much, but No. 9 Oklahoma managed to get enough points to fend of a less productive Iowa State offense. <\/p>\n

The Sooners’ 26-6 win over the Cyclones sets up a Bedlam showdown for the Big 12 championship next week in Stillwater.<\/p>\n

Landry Jones threw for 256 yards, Blake Bell punched in two short touchdown runs and the Sooners limited Iowa State to a season-low 245 yards in a 26-6 victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rebounding after allowing a school-record 616 yards allowed last week in a 45-38 loss at Baylor, Oklahoma only let the Cyclones (6-5, 3-5 Big 12) score after James Winchester’s snap sailed over the head of punter Tress Way in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma will visit Oklahoma State (No. 4 BCS, No. 5 AP) — with the nation’s second-highest scoring offense — next week with the winner earning the Big 12 title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}