Oklahoma Quotes
“Really, really good win. Really good win. That’s a good football team there. You can see some of their improvements they’ve made form week one to week two. I certainly felt that out there on the field. Very proud of our defense and the way they played. Offensively, we weren’t quite our best – weren’t super sharp. UCLA certainly had something to do with that and we had chances there to separate ourselves there in the first half and we couldn’t do it but defensively, I thought we were really strong the whole day other than the third and long that we gave up – the post down the middle to the tight end. The rest of the day, our defense was really, really good. They were active. We got some good pressure on the quarterback, which was key. We knew that would be a young guy coming in. Fly him around the football, a lot of guys making plays. And then, once again, probably the most dominant side of the ball was special teams. Two huge, huge plays – the punt return and kickoff return – that gave us momentum and got our team, the crowd, everybody energized and we continued to make some strides there and make some plays. Proud of that group and another big, non-conference win, We talked a lot about this game. This is one that you don’t get every year. You get your Big 12 games every year but you don’t get some of these marquee out-of-conference matchups, teams from different conferences, different parts of the country. You only get a few of them throughout your career here so you want to make the most of them and I think we, as a team, did that today. I think, injury-wise, we’ll see on Rodney. Don’t have anything definitive. We’ll hope for the best and get some official word and see where he’s at.” – Lincoln Riley Opening Statement
“We’re lucky. Rodney’s a great player. We’re going to certainly hope for the best, but we’ve got other good players in there. And honestly, play calling-wise and design, it’s not going to change a whole lot. We’ve got confidence in the guys we have there. They all have dynamic skill-sets, they can all run, all catch the ball – we have no issue throwing the ball to any of them. They can all pass protect, and so that’s part of the deal at that position. It’s a physical position and you understand that that’s part of the game and we’ve worked hard to build depth and we got a chance to show it today.” – Riley on Rodney Anderson’s injury
“Our D-Line continues to play well. I thought our pressures were good. Gave up one bad third down play, but after that I thought our first group played really well through three quarters. Our front played well. I thought Curtis, Mark Jackson showed up more, and Kenneth Murray played better. Neville looked like he played better. A lot of positive signs. It’s hard to tell when you’re up just watching everything and the game’s going and you’re trying to put calls together, but there are some things that I thought worked good just from watching it. You have to critique it tomorrow and figure out where we go and continue to move forward.” – Mike Stoops on getting to the quarterback
“I feel like it was a good hit. I tried to move my head out of the way, but I guess they saw it somewhere else. Nowadays when you hit a quarterback and the quarterback goes down, the flag automatically comes up and it’s call it now and review later. I’m just glad it went my way, I feel like it was a good hit.” – Curtis Bolton on the review of his targeting penalty.
“We just play out there. If something does not happen the way, we want we just keep going no matter what.” – Marquise Brown on the offense
“I’ll be honest, I’ve never made a catch like that, not even in practice. I got it in my hand and it just stuck there… I really believed I was in bounds at the time.” – CeeDee Lamb on his one handed catch out of bounds
“Definitely good, definitely something to build on. We’reout there trying to be hungry, trying to get plays in the negative behind the line of scrimmage, stuff like that, so it was definitely good to see everyone continue to improve. We’re starting to see the fruits of our work, we’re going out there and working. Ten more games to play, so we have to keep going, keep getting better every week.” – Kenneth Murray on tackles for loss
“Kyler is a play-maker; everyone made their plays. I feel like him at quarterback position that’s a dangerous spot for him to be in. He’s versatile, he can throw the rock. He started reading his keys a little better and he’s quicker at his decisions now, he’s definitely doing his thing out there.” – Marcelias Sutton on Kyler Murray
UCLA Quotes
“The only guy I’m disappointed in is (Oakland A’s general manager) Billy Beane. I wish he gave the kid (Kyler Murray) more money and give him a little bigger prize so maybe No. 1 wouldn’t be out there, because he’s a real talented player. You think there’s going to be a big drop off when you go from a Heisman Trophy winner, but that kid’s pretty special. He was very difficult for us to tackle, but it was a great experience for our players. The Oklahoma fans were great; it’s a great environment here and we love playing in games like this.” – Chip Kelly on Kyler Murray
“I found an open end and we ran verticals. I found an opening and Dorian threw a really good ball. I just tried to make a play and run as fast as I could and do a stiff arm; it had a pretty good gain so that was a good explosive play for us….I was trying to score, but that was neat to just be in the same stadium in front of my family, just showing my family my talents and letting everyone see. A lot of my family from Texas can’t come to my games so everyone is going to see me in an awesome atmosphere and making a big play, that was really cool.” – Tight end Caleb Wilson on his big first quarter kick
“He is a guy who is blessed. He can do what he wants. He can sling it right, he can run it because he is a guy with a blessed arm and he can do pretty much anything.” – Cornerback Darnay Homes on Kyler Murray
Notes
• The Sooners improved to 32-4 overall and 21-2 at home as the No. 6 team in the AP poll.
• The win was Oklahoma’s 31st straight against unranked non-conference opponents (last loss was in 2005 at UCLA, 41-24).
• OU improved its series record against UCLA to 4-1.
• Oklahoma’s 28-point margin of victory is its largest against a Power Five opponent in a regular-season non-conference matchup since defeating Florida State 47-17 in 2010.
• The Sooners have scored at least 30 points in 25 of its last 26 games and is 24-2 during that time.
• Six different Sooners scored a touchdown on Saturday: Rodney Anderson, Marquise Brown, CeeDee Lamb, A.D. Miller, Kyler Murray (twice) and Marcelias Sutton.
• DB Justin Broiles and C Creed Humphrey made their first career starts for the Sooners. They are redshirt freshmen.
• The OU defense recorded 12 tackles for loss — its most since also registering a dozen against West Virginia in 2015.
• Ten different defensive players were involved in a tackle for loss, and six different players contributed on a sack.
• Kyler Murray recorded a career-high 306 passing yards and three touchdowns on a 19 of 33 passing performance. It was his first-career 300-yard passing game.
• Murray scored his first rushing touchdown at OU (second career) on a 10-yard rush on the first play of the second quarter.
• He is the first OU quarterback to lead the team in rushing since Trevor Knight ran for 146 yards against Iowa State in 2014.
• Murray joined Baker Mayfield (2015 vs. Tulsa) and Trevor Knight (2014 vs. Iowa State) as the only Sooner quarterbacks in the last 18 years to produce a game of at least three passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns.
• CeeDee Lamb compiled 146 receiving yards on seven catches and a touchdown, an average of 20.9 yards per reception. He finished one yard shy of his career high of 147 set last season versus Texas Tech.
• Saturday was Lamb’s third-career 100-yard receiving game and first this season.
• Between receptions and punt returns, Lamb totaled a career-best 209 all-purpose yards.
• Marquise Brown recorded four catches for 88 yards and a touchdown, averaging 22.0 yards per reception.
• His 58-yard touchdown reception, in the first quarter, was his ninth reception of at least 50 yards in his 15 games as a Sooner.
• Going back to last season, Brown has scored a touchdown in four straight games.
• Rodney Anderson recorded his 15th-career rushing touchdown on a 3-yard run in the first quarter. He has scored a touchdown in three straight games and in nine of his last 11 games.
• Marcelias Sutton scored his fourth-career touchdown on an 11-yard rush in the third quarter. He has two rushing touchdowns in two games this season.
• Tre Brown’s 86-yard kickoff return in the first quarter was OU’s longest non-scoring play/return in stadium history. It was OU’s longest kickoff return since 2016 when Joe Mixon returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown against Ohio State. It was also the program’s longest non-scoring kickoff return since 2015 when Alex Ross returned a kickoff 90 yards at Oklahoma State.
• Ronnie Perkins recorded his first career sack in the second quarter.
• AD Miller recorded his fourth-career touchdown reception on a 10-yard pass from QB Kyler Murray in the third quarter. He also caught a TD pass last week.