Cornhuskers Swamp Sooners

Nebraska handed Oklahoma its worst loss ever Saturday. There’s no telling how bad it would have gotten if the Cornhuskers’ offense was rolling.

No. 5 Nebraska (7-1, 5-0 Big 12), after being held scoreless for a quarter and a half, went on to win 73-21 and beat Oklahoma (2-6, 2-3) for the sixth consecutive time.

Nebraska totaled 387 yards, well below its 441-yard average. Its 208 yards on the ground were nearly 100 below average.

“I guess when you win 70-something to 21 and you say, ‘Well the key to the game was the defense,’ it doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said. “But obviously we played very well defensively through most of the game.”

The 52-point margin surpassed the Sooners’ 47-point loss to Oklahoma A&M in 1945, and the 73 points were the most ever against Oklahoma.