Really interesting stat line today.

[Plainosooner]

When you get a lot of turnovers for touchdowns, your defense spends more time on the field. Same thing with kick return TDs, though we didn't have any of that. Same thing with three play touchdown drives.

But partly because of all that, West Virginia had 27 first downs, to only 16 for OU. But OU had more yardage from scrimmage. 427 to 389.

It's not very often that you go two of eleven on third down conversions, have a 27-16 first down disadvantage and have a dozen penalties for over 130 yards, and beat a good team. Especially when the have a 50-yard touchdown run on fourth and two.

But that's what a five to two turnover advantage does for you, especially when one of the fumbles is returned for a touchdown and you have 140 turnover return yards.

The primary difference IMO was Mayfield. Again. He made his first really bad throw of the year that resulted in the Mountaineers on interception.

Anybody remember seeing five combined unsportsmanlike conduct penalties on five different plays in one game?

 

[ccraider]

We had three TDs that covered 140 yards. Tough to rack of 1st downs when you scoring on big plays.

 

[Schoonerman]

The stat that jumped out at me was the 12 penalties for 134 yards which resulted in 8 WVU first downs. On WVU's second scoring "drive," they covered 75 yards, but 50 yards were given to them due to our penalties.

WVU had 11 penalties for 111 yards themselves, which gave OU two first downs, so some of that might be the spillover from the pre-game tussle. And some of it might be that these teams are undisciplined. From what I'm seeing out of KSU, OSU, Baylor, TCU and Tech, we can't get behind the chains or give up yards on defense due to an excessive number of penalties.

Sooners need to clean up their act in the next week or two because a good team will take advantage of that many mistakes.