Oklahoma Sooners vs Kansas State Wildcats Match Player Stats On Oct 17, 2015

The Sports Xchange
Oct 17, 2015

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Baker Mayfield passed for 282 yards and five touchdowns, all in the first half, as No. 19 Oklahoma blew out Kansas State 55-0 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Saturday.

The Sooners were coming off a shocking loss to unranked Texas a week earlier. Oklahoma turned up the tempo offensively and had success from the start.

Kansas State was coming off back-to-back losses in which it led at halftime and let leads slip away.

Oklahoma needed only five plays and 1:04 to find the end zone, as Mayfield hit three passes of 20 or more yards on the game's opening drive.

Two of those long passes went to wide receiver Sterling Shepard, who finished it off with a 22-yard catch.

Shepard finished with four catches for 83 yards and two touchdowns.

By halftime, many of the sellout crowd of 52,867 had streamed toward the exits, as Oklahoma built a 35-0 lead behind Mayfield's five touchdown passes.

Mayfield finished 20-of-27 before giving way to Trevor Knight at quarterback after three quarters.

The Sooners finished with 568 yards of total offense while Kansas State didn't top 100 yards until the game's final minute.

Oklahoma cornerback Zack Sanchez had two of Oklahoma's three interceptions, returning the second 38 yards for a touchdown on the first possession of the second half.

Oklahoma has won six consecutive games in Manhattan. The last time the Wildcats beat the Sooners was in 1996.

Kansas State hadn't been shut out since 1996 and hadn't been shut out by Oklahoma since 1974.

Late in the second quarter, Kansas State switched quarterbacks, going with Kody Cook over Joe Hubener.

Cook gave the Wildcats a quick infusion of offense with a 13-yard run on his third play, but then the offense stalled and Kansas State remained scoreless.

A week earlier, in a 24-17 loss to Texas, mobile quarterbacks had made things difficult on the Sooners. But Oklahoma kept Hubener bottled up from the start and kept control throughout.

Kansas State's best chance to score came early in the second quarter, when it drove inside the Oklahoma 20, but the drive stalled and the Wildcats missed a 32-yard field goal attempt.

The Sooners then drove 80 yards in five plays to take a 21-0 lead on Shepard's 28-yard touchdown reception.

NOTES: QB Baker Mayfield's five touchdown passes tied a school record for the most in a half. Jason White threw five in the first half of a 77-0 win over Texas A&M in 2003. ... The home team has lost five consecutive games in this series. ... Oklahoma has not lost back-to-back regular-season games since 1999, coach Bob Stoops' first season at Oklahoma. ... Oklahoma LB Devante Bond missed his second consecutive game after sustaining a high-ankle sprain two weeks earlier against West Virginia. ... Kansas State SS Dante Barnett and CB Danzel McDaniel were injured and did not dress for the game. ... Bob Stoops did not wear his usual visor, going without headwear to honor Steve Spurrier, who resigned from South Carolina earlier in the week. Stoops served as Spurrier's defensive coordinator from 1996-98 at Florida. ... Oklahoma's flight to Manhattan on Friday was delayed several hours. The Sooners didn't arrive until about 15 hours before the kickoff of Saturday's game. ... Oklahoma hosts Texas Tech next Saturday, while Kansas State plays at Texas.