Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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GAME PREVIEW: OKLAHOMA Lubbock, Texas, since 2003. Texas Tech had been playing well. The thought was they could easily go down there and lose, and if they lose that, they're going to lose to Texas. And if they lose to Texas, who knows how many games they're going to lose this year? "They go to Lubbock and just put on a whoo- pin', 41-20, and Landry Jones looked completely unlike he had looked all year. After the Tech game, I thought they'd beat Texas, but I don't think anybody expected it to be like that. They Facts & Figures NOTRE DAME AT OKLAHOMA Satellite Radio (channel 129). Series Facts: This marks just the 10th meeting between the two programs, with Notre Dame holding an 8-1 record in the all-time series. The last time the Fighting Irish faced the Sooners was in 1999, which resulted in a 34-30 victory over No. 23 OU by unranked ND in South Bend. Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops' Record • 143-35 (.803) in 14 seasons at Oklahoma senior has started for four straight seasons and owns nearly every passing record in OU annals. He is one of three players in Big 12 history and one of 23 in NCAA history to amass 100 touchdown passes and 13,000 passing yards in his career. This year, he has completed 114 of 184 throws (62.0 percent) for 1,359 yards with nine scores and three picks. • RB Damien Williams (26) — The junior running back transferred from Arizona Western this fall Prime Personnel • QB Landry Jones (12) — The 6-4, 218-pound Game Info Date: Oct. 27, 2012 Site: Memorial Stadium (82,112) Kickoff: 8 p.m. ET Television: ABC Radio: This broadcast can be heard live on SIRIUS just destroyed them. "Now they're ranked ninth in the BCS and look like a team, if they're able to beat Notre Dame and the rest of the ranked teams on their schedule, they look like a team, in theory, that could play their way back into this thing." ✦ and has made an immediate impact, averaging 7.7 yards per carry (66 attempts for 508 yards) in his first five outings. At 6-0, 208 pounds, he's a home- run threat every time he touches the ball and has already scored on runs of 65, 89 and 95 yards. • WR Kenny Stills (4) — The junior wideout leads the team with 32 receptions for 381 yards and three touchdowns after starting 11 games in 2011, when he was selected to the All-Big 12 second team by league coaches. • CB Aaron Colvin (14) — The junior cornerback is third on the team with 20 tackles and tied for first with two interceptions. His six passes broken up nearly equal that of the rest of the Sooners defense (eight). eight times from 1952-68. Perhaps the most mem- orable game in that stretch was in 1957 when Notre Dame's Dick Lynch rushed for the contest's only touchdown in the final minutes to snap OU's 47-game winning streak. Oklahoma's previous loss was to the Fighting Irish in 1953. • Oklahoma was allowing 300.2 yards per game For The Record • Notre Dame and Oklahoma played each other through five contests, which ranked 14th nation- ally. The Sooners were 20th in scoring defense (17.0) after giving up 20.0 points per game in their three Big 12 contests to date. Texas managed just 14 yards in the first quarter and two first downs in the first half against OU.