Caleb Williams leads No. 12 Oklahoma past Iowa State 28-21

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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — — Caleb Williams passed for a touchdown and ran for another, Jalen Redmond returned a fumble for different score, and No. 12 Oklahoma bushed Iowa State 28-21 connected Saturday.

Kennedy Brooks ran for 115 yards for the Sooners (10-1, 7-1 Big 12, No. 13 CFP), who bounced backmost from a nonaccomplishment to Baylor and solidified their chances of reaching the Big 12 rubric game. They besides kept live their slim College Football Playoff hopes.

Iowa State’s Charlie Kolar, playing successful his hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, had vocation highs of 12 catches and 152 yards. Brock Purdy passed for 281 yards and a touchdown for Iowa State (6-5, 4-4), which was eliminated from the Big 12 rubric race.

Iowa State got the shot astatine its 14-yard line, trailing 28-21 with 2 minutes near successful the game. The Cyclones drove to the Oklahoma 21, but Pat Fields intercepted a walk by Purdy with 15 seconds remaining to extremity the threat.

Iowa State has been a thorn successful Oklahoma’s broadside successful caller years, beating the Sooners successful 2017 and 2020. Oklahoma bushed the Cyclones successful the Big 12 rubric crippled past year.

In the archetypal 4th connected Saturday, Iowa State’s Joe Scates caught a shot adjacent the extremity enactment and was stripped. It was ruled that helium caught the shot and fumbled retired of the extremity zone. It would person been a touchback, but Oklahoma’s D.J. Graham was retired of bounds erstwhile helium stripped it, truthful Iowa State got the shot astatine the 1 aft the 25-yard completion. Breece Hall scored connected the adjacent play.

Oklahoma responded quickly. Williams broke escaped for a 74-yard touchdown tally — the longest play of the play for the Sooners — to necktie the game.

Late successful the 2nd quarter, Iowa State drove into Oklahoma territory. Oklahoma’s Key Lawrence jarred the shot escaped from Purdy, and Redmond got the cleanable bounce successful stride and took it 42 yards for a touchdown. The people gave the Sooners a 14-7 pb with 9 seconds near successful the archetypal half.

Williams recovered Mario Williams successful the extremity portion for an 11-yard people to summation Oklahoma’s pb 21-7 precocious successful the third.

Purdy went to the locker country successful the 3rd quarter, and his replacement, Hunter Dekkers, threw an interception to Oklahoma’s Delarrin Turner-Yell connected his 2nd pass.

Andrew Mevis ran 29 yards connected a fake punt aboriginal successful the 4th fourth to enactment the Cyclones successful Oklahoma territory. Later successful the drive, Dekkers connected with Chase Allen to chopped Oklahoma’s pb to 21-14.

Purdy returned successful the 4th fourth but couldn’t rally the Cyclones connected his archetypal possession backmost arsenic they went three-and-out.

Oklahoma responded with a five-play, 68-yard thrust — each moving plays — that ended with a 7-yard touchdown tally by Eric Gray with 5:06 remaining. Brooks ran for 45 yards connected 3 carries connected the drive.

Kolar caught a 2-yard touchdown walk from Purdy to chopped Oklahoma’s pb to 28-21 with 2:57 remaining, mounting up the melodramatic finish.

THE TAKEAWAY

Iowa State: The Cyclones came maddeningly adjacent to having a peculiar season. All 5 of their losses are by 10 oregon less points. They’ve mislaid 3 of their past four, each by 7 oregon less points.

Oklahoma: The Sooners erstwhile again recovered a mode to triumph a choky game. Despite getting conscionable 96 yards retired of their passing game, Oklahoma claimed its sixth triumph by 7 oregon less points this season.

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Iowa State hosts TCU.

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