Tulsa-Oklahoma State Post-Game Notes
9/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
Sept. 18, 2010
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Tulsa Post-Game Notes vs. Oklahoma State
• Tulsa won the toss, deferred. OSU received the kickoff.
• Senior linebacker Tanner Antle continued Tulsa's longest streak as a starter. He started his 27th career game against OSU.
• For the second straight week, Tulsa's opponent scored on its first possession. Last week, Bowling Green scored a TD, this week OSU had a field goal.
• OSU's 49-yard field goal on its' first possession was the longest in two attempts so far this season against Tulsa. The previous long was 38 yards by East Carolina.
• OSU scored on their first two possessions. That's the first time in three games this year that has happened against the Hurricane.
• OSU's 20 points in the first quarter are the most this year in the first quarter against the Hurricane. East Carolina had 10 first-half points in the season opener. It is also the most against Tulsa since UTEP scored 28 points on October 18, 2008.
• Tulsa trailed 20-0 in the first quarter. The last time Tulsa was down by 20 points was last year against East Carolina when the Hurricane trailed 20-0 in the second quarter on November 15, 2009.
• The previous largest first-quarter deficit for the Hurricane was 17 points (17-0) against Arkansas on November 1, 2008.
• Tulsa failed to score in the first quarter for the first time this season. The last time Tulsa did not score in the first quarter was in the 10th game last season against East Carolina, as Tulsa trailed 3-0 in the game after one quarter.
• Shavodrick Beaver saw his first action at quarterback this season against OSU, gaining 8 yards on his first play.
• Trae Johnson's third reception of the game at 11:33 went for eight yards, gave him 24 yards in the game and put him over 2,000 career receiving yards. He thus became the third current Tulsa player with 2,000 career receiving yards, joining Charles Clay and Damaris Johnson.
• OSU's 41 first-half points was the most against the Hurricane since Houston scored 42 first-half points on November 15, 2008.
• OSU's 81-yard pass play for a touchdown was the longest against the Hurricane since Game 11 of the 2009 season (Nov. 21) as Southern Miss' Martevious Young threw 95 yards to DeAundre Brown.
• OSU scored their most points in the series, surpassing their 56 points in a 56-35 victory on October 1, 1988.
• The eight touchdown passes by OSU is the most for a Tulsa opponent in school history, and the most since Houston had six TD passes on November 15, 2008. OSU quarterback Brandon Weedon's six TD passes tied an opponent record of six TD passes by Houston's Case Keenum on Nov. 15, 2008.
• Tulsa went over 400 total yards for the third time in three games this year, and for the 35th time under Todd Graham as the Hurricane head coach.
• Red-shirt freshman Trey Watts scored his first career touchdown on a two-yard run in the fourth quarter.
• OSU's 722 yards was the most against Tulsa since Houston gained an opponent record of 762 yards in 1968.
• Marco Nelson's 81-yard interception return for a touchdown was the first INT returned for a TD since Sept. 20, 2008 when Roy Roberts had a 41-yard INT return for a touchdown. The 81-yard return is the fourth-longest in school history and the longest since a 97-yard return by Jeff Jordan against Memphis in 1963.
• It marked the second straight game in his second consecutive start that Marco Nelson intercepted a pass.
• OSU's 65 points is the most given up by the Hurricane since allowing 70 points against Houston on Nov. 15, 2008.
• Michael Such's 74-yard punt in the fourth quarter was the longest since he punted for 83 yards against Memphis on Nov. 27, 2009.
