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On This Date In 2002: Pokes Beat OU, 38-28
November 30, 2014 | Cowboy Football
STILLWATER - The goal posts came down in Stillwater on this day in 2002, after Oklahoma State beat No. 3 Oklahoma for the second straight season, this time by a 38-28 margin.
The Sooners entered with a 10-1 record and had aspirations of playing in the national championship game entering the contest, but the Cowboys were the far superior team that day, rolling to touchdowns on four of their first five possessions and amassing 506 yards of offense in the contest. OSU held a commanding 35-6 lead in the third quarter before OU could muster any kind of sustained production.
Cowboy quarterback Josh Fields threw for 357 yards and four touchdowns and receiver Rashaun Woods dominated the OU secondary, catching 12 passes for a then-school record 226 yards.
"We thought we could score of every possession. We had a lot of fun out there today," Fields said after the game.
The win marked the second straight for OSU over its Bedlam rival, as the Pokes stunned the fourth-ranked Sooners in Norman the previous season. With the previous year's result and OU's desire to exact revenge on the Cowboys at the center of the storyline entering the 2002 contest, OU tight end Trent Smith offered this quote to The Oklahoman newspaper:
"If OSU wins, it's Christmas all year for them. A freakin' Orange Christmas. I don't like it when OSU gets to have Christmas all year and I don't."
Perhaps it wasn't Christmas after the game in Stillwater, but the celebration was on in a sold-out Lewis Field as Cowboy fans tore down the goal posts following a dominating win over the favored Sooners.
