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OU football vs. Iowa State: Score, live updates from Oklahoma Sooners against ISU Cyclones

Ryan Aber and Justin Martinez, The Oklahoman
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The 14th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners host the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday in Week 5 of the college football season. Here's everything you need to know about the Big 12 showdown:

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How to watch Oklahoma vs. Iowa State football

When: 6 p.m. Saturday

Where: Owen Field in Norman

TV: FS1

Radio: 107.7 FM, 1520 AM

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OU vs. Iowa State football live updates

FINAL: Oklahoma 50, Iowa State 20

The Sooners improve to 5-0 (2-0 Big 12), setting up an undefeated Red River Rivalry game next Saturday against Texas in Dallas.

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Fourth quarter: Sooners reach 50-point mark

Zach Schmit makes the 30-yard field goal to give OU a 50-20 lead over Iowa State with 8:41 left in the game.

Third quarter: Jayden Gibson scores wild TD

Jayden Gibson was hit at the 15 and quickly spun out of it.

Then he sidestepped a defender at the 10.

Finally, Gibson barreled his way across the goal line — barely — through three Iowa State defenders.

OU continued its onslaught on the first drive of the second half, pulling in a 41-yard touchdown pass from Dillon Gabriel to put the Sooners up 47-20.

OU has scored the last 26 points after Iowa State pulled within one in the second quarter.

Gabriel has now thrown for 317 yards and three touchdowns, becoming the first 300-yard passer against Iowa State since late in the 2021 season.

Halftime: Oklahoma 40, Iowa State 20

Second quarter: Drake Stoops' TD catch puts OU up three scores

After struggling for much of the first half, OU’s defense finally started showing some life late in the first half.

First, the Sooners forced a punt that they turned into five points — a safety on a blocked put and then a field goal — and then Gentry Williams gave OU its second interception of the game, picking off Rocco Becht on third down to give the Sooners the ball in Cyclones’ territory with 2:06 remaining before half.

The interception was the second of the season for Williams.

The Sooners took advantage of Williams’ pick, scoring with seven seconds remaining in the half on a 2-yard touchdown pass from Dillon Gabriel to Drake Stoops.

The score put the Sooners up 40-20.

Gabriel is 13 of 20 for 247 yards and two touchdowns.

Second quarter: Gentry Williams gets in on the INT fest

Gentry Williams intercepts the pass to set OU up at Iowa State's 43-yard line with 2:06 left until halftime.

Second quarter: Zach Schmit extends Sooners' lead

After missing a field goal earlier, Zach Schmit hit a 46-yarder to put OU up 33-20 on Iowa State with 3:32 remaining before half.

Second quarter: Peyton Bowen blocks punt, leads to safety

Peyton Bowen came up with a huge special teams play, but Trace Ford couldn’t make it an even bigger one.

After OU held Iowa State’s offense after four consecutive scoring drives for the Cyclones, Bowen broke through and was all over Iowa State punter Tyler Perkins, easily blocking the punt from the Cyclones’ 20.

The ball bounded back near the goal line, where Ford tried to scoop it up.

But instead of recovering it for the touchdown — or at least setting up the Sooners at the doorstep of the goal line — Ford couldn’t keep hold of it, rolling and flipping the ball out of the back of the end zone for a safety to put the Sooners up 30-20.

OU quickly drove into Iowa State territory after the free kick gave the Sooners the ball.

Second quarter: Dillon Gabriel legs out another TD

Jalil Farooq asserted himself on OU’s fourth drive against Iowa State.

Farooq’s 48-yard reception — on a play where he was interfered with — set up Dillon Gabriel’s second touchdown run of the game to put the Sooners up 28-20 on Iowa State.

Farooq added an 8-yard reception to start the drive.

He leads OU with three catches for 67 yards.

Farooq’s long catch put the Sooners at the 1, but a penalty pushed OU back and Gabriel needed to carry it in from six yards out for his second score of the day.

Second quarter: Cyclones cut lead to 21-20

Iowa State pulled within a point, 21-20, of OU with 9:06 to go in the second quarter on Chase Contreraz’s 48-yard field goal.

The Sooners’ defense has shown plenty of cracks against the Cyclones and that continued on the drive. As Abu Sama III broke off a 17-yard run on the second play of the drive to start a stretch of four consecutive gains of 10 or more yards by Iowa State.

But the Sooners came up with stops on second and third down after the Cyclones got to the OU 30, holding the Cyclones to a field goal.

Iowa State is outgaining the Sooners 264-217.

Second quarter: Sooners miss shot at extending lead

Texas transfer Brennen Thompson’s speed was one of the talks of the offseason among OU’s wide receiver corps.

But Thompson hadn’t played a factor through the Sooners’ first four games.

But early in the second quarter Saturday against Iowa State, Dillon Gabriel took a deep shot and Thompson was there to grab it.

The pass was underthrown, but Thompson was able to adjust, putting on the brakes as two Iowa State defenders kept moving downfield, as Thompson hauled in the 54-yard pass to put the Sooners at the Iowa State 21 and in prime scoring position.

The drive stalled from there, though, with a 3-yard gain by Gavin Sawchuk and a pair of incomplete passes forcing the Sooners to try a 36-yard field goal — that was missed by Zach Schmit wide left.

OU leads 21-17 early in the second.

Second quarter: Jayden Higgins scores on busted play

Iowa State struck again from deep.

On the first play of the second quarter, Cyclones’ receiver Jayden Higgins found a seam in OU’s defense and ran for a 67-yard touchdown reception from freshman quarterback Rocco Becht.

The score pulled Iowa State to withing four, 21-17.

Higgins’ reception was the fourth play of 20 yards or more the Sooners’ defense has given up.

First quarter: Nic Anderson TD extends OU's lead

Nic Anderson just keeps catching touchdown passes for OU.

In the final minute of the first quarter, Anderson was wide open in the end zone, where he caught Dillon Gabriel’s 39-yard touchdown pass to put the Sooners up 21-10.

The touchdown catch was Anderson’s fifth in the last three weeks.

Gabriel has completed 6 of 7 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown.

One number to watch — Iowa State has not allowed a 300-yard passer since late in the 2021 season.

First quarter: Sooners 14, Cyclones 10

OU didn’t let it happen again.

After being beaten for a touchdown on third-and-long earlier in the first quarter, the Sooners came up with a stop on third and 15 from the Sooners’ 17, forcing an incompletion as Cyclones’ freshman quarterback Rocco Becht overthrew a receiver in the flat to force Iowa State to settle for a 35-yard field goal to cut OU’s lead to 14-10 with 2:14 remaining in the first quarter.

First quarter: Dillon Gabriel puts Sooners back up

OU’s running back rotation appears to have taken on a different look Saturday.

Marcus Major handled the majority of the snaps at the position on the first drive, with four carries for 27 yards while Gavin Sawchuk, who did not have a carry last week at Cincinnati, had one carry.

But the biggest gains on the ground came from Major, first on an 18-yard gain to move the ball into Iowa State territory and then gaining two yards on fourth-and-1 to continue the drive.

Right after Major’s fourth-down carry, Dillon Gabriel dropped back to pass, but finding his receivers covered, Gabriel drifted to his right and found plenty of room to run, picking up 16 yards to the Cyclones’ 1. On the next play, Gabriel carried it in for the rushing touchdown to put the Sooners up 14-7.

It was Gabriel’s third rushing touchdown of the season.

First quarter: Rocco Becht, Cyclones tie it up

The Sooners’ defense has been one of the nation’s best on third down this season.

After having success on their first third-down try — returning an interception for a touchdown — the second third-down try for Iowa State’s offense was a disaster for OU.

Jaylin Noel caught Rocco Becht’s pass in front of safety Key Lawrence and Lawrence had no chance to recover, as Noel took it in for a 51-yard touchdown on third-and-18 to tie the game 7-7.

First quarter: Billy Bowman INT return for TD gives OU 7-0 lead

OU got the scoring started quickly Saturday against Iowa State.

On the third play from scrimmage, the Sooners’ Billy Bowman picked off Cyclones’ quarterback Rocco Becht and worked his way across the field, running along the sidelines and finishing off the interception return for a touchdown.

It was OU’s second touchdown return for a touchdown this season, following linebacker Danny Stutsman’s 30-yard return for a score two weeks ago against Tulsa.

The interception was the Sooners’ ninth interception of the season.

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Pregame: Sooners' injury updates

OU left guard Savion Byrd and safety Reggie Pearson, both of whom missed last week’s win over Cincinnati, are dressed out and expected to play Saturday night when 14th-ranked OU hosts Iowa State (6 p.m., FS1).

The Sooners will be without backup cornerback Kani Walker and backup tight end Kade McIntyre. Justin Harrington, who started the first two games at cheetah and was hurt early in the win over SMU, remains out. Harrington has also been removed from the Sooners’ depth chart.

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