Arkansas 30, Tulsa 23

11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM | Football

Nov. 1, 2008

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  • Tulsa game captains were David Johnson and Moton Hopkins.

  • Tulsa suffered its first loss of the season and falls to 8-1 overall.

  • Moton Hopkins started his 32nd consecutive game at defensive end, and offensive guard Justin Morsey started his 33rd straight contest.

  • This is just the third game this season that the opposition has scored first. The other two were also touchdowns by UTEP and UAB.

  • Tulsa's first completion of the game was to tight end Jake Collums. It is the first time since the second game of the season against North Texas that a tight end has caught a pass. It was Collums that caught the pass in that game as well.

  • When Arkansas took a 17-0 lead in the first quarter, it was the biggest deficit of the season for the Hurricane. The previous largest deficit was 11 points when Tulsa trailed SMU 14-3 in the second quarter in Dallas.

  • Tulsa's first score of the game came at the 0:47 mark of the first quarter, which is the longest this year that it took the Hurricane to score. The previous was 3:34 of the first quarter against SMU when Tulsa scored on a Jarod Tracy field goal.

  • Damaris Johnson had an 81-yard kickoff return, making it the third straight game that he has returned a kickoff for 70 or more yards. He had a 94-yard TD return vs. UTEP and a 70-yarder last week against UCF.

  • Tulsa trailed at halftime for the fourth time this season, including 22-21 at UAB, 17-13 at SMU and 19-14 vs. UCF last week.

  • Tulsa has now scored 20+ points in the first half in seven of nine games this year. SMU and UCF are the only games in which Tulsa did not have at least 20 first-half points.

  • Damaris Johnson had his third straight game of over 100 yards on kickoff returns, and his fourth of the season. He had 159 yards vs. UCA, 211 yards vs. UTEP and 134 yards vs. UCF.

  • Tulsa trailed at the end of three quarters for only the second time this year. The other game was a 31-24 SMU lead on October 11th.

  • Charles Clay went over 100-yard receiving for just the first time this season, but the fourth time in his two-year career.

  • Tulsa had scored in every quarter this year until the fourth quarter of today's game, having its nation-leading streak stopped at 35 quarters with a score.

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    Players Mentioned

    Charles Clay

    Fullback
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    Moton Hopkins

    Defensive End
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    Damaris Johnson

    Wide Receiver
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    David Johnson

    Quarterback
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    Justin Morsey

    Offensive Center
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    Jarod Tracy

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