Neither player was on the field Saturday night in Lubbock, but fans of both teams will not soon forget the record-setting shootout those two quarterbacks were engaged in at Texas Tech’s Jones AT&T Stadium two seasons ago. Behind Mayfield, Oklahoma outlasted Mahomes and the Red Raiders 66-59. Aside from 125 points, the two offenses accounted for an NCAA-record 1,708 yards of total offense.
It was one of those games in which, literally, the team that possessed the ball last would win the game. Flashing forward two years, the game Saturday night, won by the Sooners 51-46, featured much of the same style of play and action, although with a different cast of participants.