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Texas Tech football classics: Red Raiders stun Sooners in Norman

By Matthew Conner

NORMAN, OK - OCTOBER 22: Texas Tech players celebrate after the game against the Oklahoma Sooners October 22, 2011 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. Texas Tech upset Oklahoma 41-38. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - OCTOBER 22: Texas Tech players celebrate after the game against the Oklahoma Sooners October 22, 2011 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. Texas Tech upset Oklahoma 41-38. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /
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Running Back DeAndre Washington #21 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by Jackson Laizure/Getty Images)
Running Back DeAndre Washington #21 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by Jackson Laizure/Getty Images) /

Tech has a huge second quarter

After the first two drives of the game, the defenses settled in and no other scoring occurred in the first quarter.  But in the second quarter, Seth Doege and the Red Raider offense went nuts while the OU offense couldn’t get out of its own way.

Completing 9-14 passes for 141 yards in the quarter, Doege led his team to two touchdowns (one he scored with a one-yard scramble and one being a 30-yard TD pass to Alex Torres) and a field goal.  By the end of the first half, Doege was over 300 yards passing, a feat which no QB had managed to do against the OU defense all year to that point.  Meanwhile, Oklahoma managed just one first down in the entire quarter as the Sooner receivers and QB Landry Jones could not get on the same page.

Virtually every time a huge underdog is able to pull off an upset, especially on the road, they jump out to a huge lead an hang on for dear life.  That’s exactly what happened in this game.

Were it not for the 17-0 second quarter, Tech would have lost this game 38-24.  But because of the second-quarter onslaught of Doege and the offense, the Red Raiders had the recipe for an upset.

We should also point out that this game was a classic trap game for the Sooners.  A week later, the Sooners were set to head to Manhattan, Kansas to face undefeated No. 8 Kansas State, and the Red Raiders may have benefitted from the fact that people around Norman were already looking forward to that game as well as the Bedlam showdown with then-No. 3 Oklahoma State later in the year.

In fact, throughout the broadcast of this game, the ESPN crew continually pointed to those two games as huge markers on the college football schedule.    But by the end of the second quarter, the attention was rightfully on this game as the Red Raiders jumped out to a lead that they would not relinquish.

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