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Despite giving up 56 points, Oklahoma's defense made critical play to beat West Virginia

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This is jolting, we know, so brace yourselves. After No. 6 Oklahoma’s 59-56 victory against No. 12 West Virginia, Kyler Murray was asked about the defense.

“They came up big tonight,” he said.

And amazingly – this is hard to type, because we saw what everyone saw – the Sooners’ star quarterback was right.

A Big 12 shootout lived up (or down) to every nightmarish fantasy about what the high-powered offenses would do to the defenses – especially, Oklahoma’s defense – except for two very important plays.