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The pass-happy Big 12 isn't what it used to be. The dual-threat quarterback is taking over. No longer is 400-plus yards through the air the norm in a league where most of the starting quarterbacks are mobile and adding another element to an offense. "It's always more difficult on defensive coaches if you have a guy who can run with the football," TCU coach Gary Patterson said. Six Big 12 quarterbacks have thrown for more than 200 yards and rushed for at least 50 in a game this season.

Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts leads the nation with six such games. Joining him are Sam Ehlinger of Texas and Oklahoma State's Spencer Sanders with three apiece, Baylor's Charlie Brewer and Iowa State's Brock Purdy with two each and Carter Stanley of Kansas has one. Kansas State's Skylar Thompson ran 61 yards on a fourth-quarter play last Saturday to set up his 3-yard touchdown run that gave the Wildcats a 24-17 win over TCU. "It's tough to play defense right now," West Virginia coach Neal Brown said. "Those are really good quarterbacks that are playing at a high level and they all have the ability to run." Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said mobile quarterbacks are prevalent in high school football, so finding one who can run and throw "is probably is a lot easier today than it's ever been. "Almost everybody in the Big 12 has got a quarterback that's got the ability to do both -- and to do both well," he said. - AP College Football

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QB Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma
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10/19/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

After No. 5 Oklahoma downed rival Texas last week, coach Lincoln Riley said a true test for the Sooners would be how they bounced back from that emotional game to face West Virginia as the heavy favorite. Riley was pleased with the results. Jalen Hurts passed for 316 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 75 yards and two more scores and the Sooners cruised to a 52-14 victory over West Virginia on Saturday. Oklahoma (7-0, 4-0) is unbeaten in eight games against West Virginia (3-4, 1-3) since the Mountaineers joined the Big 12 Conference in the 2012 season. The Sooners have won 20 of their last 21 games.

Oklahoma, which rolled up 562 yards of offense, has scored at least 34 points in 17 straight games, the second-longest such streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision since 1980. The Sooners didn't score a touchdown in the fourth quarter, though; they've scored a touchdown in every quarter but two this season. "I think we're serious about being a good football team," Riley said. "We handled this week like a team that has some big goals in mind and understanding that it is a process. It's not about one game here or there. It's a constant climb for us." West Virginia quarterback Austin Kendall, who spent three seasons at Oklahoma as a backup to Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray before transferring, completed 15 of 31 passes for 182 yards, including touchdowns of 38 and 7 yards to T.J. Simmons. - Oklahoma/AP College Football

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QB Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma
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10/17/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

QB Jalen Hurts has passed for 1,758 yards and 17 touchdowns and rushed for 630 yards and eight touchdowns. He is averaging 398 yards of total offense per game, more than 42 percent of other FBS teams (54 of 129) and more than 34 percent of other Power Five conference teams (22 of 64). But Hurts also committed a couple of key first-half turnovers against Texas that helped keep the game close. - AP College Football

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10/14/19 - *CeeDee Lamb, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 198 (DS#1 WR) + More +

OCT 14/WEEK 7 BIG 12 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: CeeDee Lamb, WR, Jr., Oklahoma,...Lamb made a career-high 10 catches for 171 yards and a career-high-tying three touchdowns in Oklahoma's 34-27 win over No. 11 Texas. His touchdowns covered 1 yard (fourth-down play in first quarter), 51 yards (third quarter; beat five defenders) and 27 yards (fourth quarter; broke two tackles). - Big 12 Football

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10/14/19 - Kenneth Murray, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 241 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

OCT 14/WEEK 7 BIG 12 DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kenneth Murray, LB, Jr., Oklahoma,...Murray registered five solo tackles, two tackles for loss and a sack as OU held the Longhorns to 310 yards and 4.2 yards per play. With the help of Murray, the Sooners tied a school record with nine sacks and their 15 tackles for loss were their second most ever against UT. - Big 12 Football

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ILB Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma
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10/14/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

OCT 14/WEEK 7 BIG 12 CO-NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK: Jalen Hurts, QB, Sr., Oklahoma,...Hurts carried the ball 17 times for 131 yards (the most rushing yards ever by an Oklahoma quarterback vs. Texas and a Cotton Bowl Stadium collegiate record by a QB) and a 3-yard fourth-quarter touchdown in OU's 34-27 win over the Longhorns. He was 16 for 28 through the air for 235 yards, three TDs and an interception, and finished with 366 yards of total offense. - Big 12 Football

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10/13/19 - *CeeDee Lamb, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 198 (DS#1 WR) + More +

OCT 12 WALTER CAMP NATIONAL FBS OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: CEE DEE LAMB, OKLAHOMA, Junior, Wide Receiver, Richmond, TX/Foster,...Cee Dee Lamb had 10 catches for 171 yards and three touchdowns as fifth-ranked Oklahoma defeated 11th-ranked Texas, 34-27, in the annual Red River Showdown. Lamb had scoring receptions for 51, 27 and one yard as the Sooners remained unbeaten (6-0). Notes: Cee Dee Lamb is the ninth Oklahoma player to receive Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004, and the first Sooners’ receiver to earn the recognition. - The Walter Camp Football Foundation

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10/13/19 - Kenneth Murray, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 241 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

The Texas game got the Oklahoma defensive coordinator fired last year. This year, under first-year coordinator Alex Grinch, the No. 6 Sooners tied a school record with nine sacks among its 15 tackles for loss in a victory against the 11th-ranked Longhorns. For the first time in forever, the Sooners might have enough defense to win a playoff game - or two. Linebacker Kenneth Murray was everywhere and Texas managed just 310 yards and 4.24 yard per play. In two games against Texas last season, Oklahoma allowed 938 yards and 6.51 yards per play. Texas won the first meeting in 2018 at State Fair, and the day after coach Lincoln Riley fired Mike Stoops. Dumping Stoops did not make much of a difference, but Oklahoma's offense was good enough to win another Big 12 championship and get the Sooners into the playoff, where they got rolled by Alabama to fall to 0-3 in the CFP. Riley hired Grinch away from Ohio State in the offseason to try to come up with a solution.

Even a passable defense to combine with Riley's almost unstoppable offenses could make Oklahoma a real threat to Alabama and Clemson. The 39-year-old Grinch traces his roots to Division III powerhouse Mount Union. He really made a name for himself two seasons ago at Washington State. He got lost in the shuffle at Ohio State last season as co-coordinator of a defense that struggled. It's all his show now and the Sooners finally look like a team that can win when its offense has an off day - like Saturday, when Jalen Hurts had a couple of turnovers in the red zone that kept Texas close. "They did a really good job swarming the football," Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger said. - AP College Football

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ILB Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma
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10/12/19 - *CeeDee Lamb, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 198 (DS#1 WR) + More +

Jalen Hurts threw three touchdown passes to CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma's defense sacked Sam Ehlinger nine times and the No. 6 Sooners never trailed in a 34-27 victory over 11th-ranked Texas on Saturday. A year after a 48-45 loss in the Red River rivalry that led to the firing of their defensive coordinator, the Sooners harassed Ehlinger into minus-9 yards rushing while holding the quarterback with the three highest total yardage outputs for Texas against Oklahoma almost 200 yards below that 387-yard average. The Sooners (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) stayed on track for a third straight trip to the College Football Playoff and avenged last year's loss in Cotton Bowl Stadium in the middle of the Texas state fair, a victory that came in a rematch of the Big 12 championship game.

The Longhorns (4-2, 2-1) are likely relegated to a spoiler role if there's a second consecutive Big 12 title game between the rivals. Both teams played under the threat of an ejection for unsportsmanlike conduct after referee Mike Defee flagged everyone 30 minutes before the game when clusters of players got too close at midfield while wrapping up warmups and started jawing at each other. The only ejection was Texas defensive lineman Malcolm Roach, and it wasn't for unsportsmanlike conduct. He was flagged for targeting while hitting Lamb helmet-first and late two plays before Lamb weaved through Texas defenders on a flea-flicker pass, going 51 yards for a touchdown. Lamb had 10 catches for 171 yards, tip-toeing on the sideline to stay inbounds on the 27-yarder for his final TD. Hurts threw for 235 yards, and the nation's leading rusher among QBs had 131 more on the ground, including a punctuating 3-yard touchdown for a 34-20 lead late in the fourth quarter. - Oklahoma/AP College Football

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WR *CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma
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10/11/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Hurts leads all quarterbacks nationally with 99.8 yards rushing per game. Texas defensive back B.J. Foster said keys to stopping Oklahoma include forcing Hurts to throw - and getting a lick on him when he tries to run. "From what I've seen, he doesn't like to slide, so he's going to engage contact with you," Foster said. "He's not dumb. He's going to have to slide, or it's not going to be good for him." Oklahoma averages 288.4 yards rushing per game, while Texas allows just 116.8. "We're sound on the run game. He's going to have to pass the ball," Foster said. Texas might not want Hurts to pass - the Longhorns are allowing 325 yards per game through the air. - AP College Football

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Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts leads the nation in passing efficiency and has rushed for 499 yards, but he could have a much tougher time this week against Texas, the first Top 25 opponent on the sixth-ranked Sooners' schedule. - AP College Football

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10/10/19 - *CeeDee Lamb, Jr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-2, 198 (DS#1 WR) + More +

Oklahoma WR CeeDee Lamb averages 24.4 yards per catch and has caught a touchdown in seven consecutive games. That streak started in last year's Big 12 title game. He also had a TD against the Longhorns last October during another seven-game TD streak. - AP College Football

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WR *CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma
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10/06/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

OCT 5 CFB STARS: Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma, threw for 228 yards and accounted for four TDs in the No. 6 Sooners' 45-20 blowout of Kansas. - AP College Football

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10/05/19 - Jalen Hurts, Sr/2020, Oklahoma, 6-1, 222 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Jalen Hurts threw for 228 yards and two touchdowns, ran for 56 yards and two more TDs and added another line to his Heisman Trophy resume in leading No. 6 Oklahoma to a 45-20 victory over Kansas on Saturday. Rhamondre Stevenson added 109 yards rushing and a score on just five carries for the Sooners (5-0, 2-0 Big 12), who spotted Kansas (2-4, 0-2) a touchdown lead before ripping off seven straight scores. That allowed them to cruise to their 22nd straight true road win, the second-longest streak since at least World War II in major college football. Bud Wilkinson's Sooners won 25 in a row from 1953-58. It also allowed Oklahoma to build momentum for next weekend's Red River Showdown with No. 11 Texas.

Carter Stanley threw for 230 yards and three touchdowns, including two to Stephon Robinson, while Pooka Williams followed a 252-yard rushing performance against the Sooners a year ago with 137 on Saturday. The rout most people anticipated didn't happen right from the start. In fact, the Jayhawks outplayed the Sooners throughout most of the first quarter. They had forced a punt and were pinned at their own goal line midway through the quarter when Stanley marched them 98 yards in just over 5 minutes. And when the senior quarterback lofted a pass to Daylon Charlot for a 22-yard touchdown, the home fans who braved a 30-minute lightning delay cheered the 7-0 lead. Hurts and the Sooners eventually got on track. - Oklahoma/AP College Football

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QB Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma
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10/04/19 - *Gabe Brkic, rJr/2022, Oklahoma, 6-2, 195 (DS#1 K) + More +

Oklahoma kicker Calum Sutherland has been suspended indefinitely. A school spokesman made the announcement in a brief statement Friday, one day before the sixth-ranked Sooners play at Kansas. Sutherland, a sophomore, was arrested Sept. 21 on a public intoxication charge. The statement did not specify a reason for the suspension. In his most recent action, Sutherland made two field goals to help the Sooners beat UCLA 48-14 on Sept. 14. Oklahoma had a bye on the Saturday that Sutherland was arrested. Sutherland did not play last Saturday as the Sooners rolled past Texas Tech 55-16. Redshirt freshman Gabe Brkic stepped in and made all seven of his extra points and both of his field goal attempts. - AP College Football

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