The yards allowed by the Sooners (383 total yards) to a young UCLA offense with a true freshman quarterback making his first career start were misrepresentative of how well the OU defensive unit played as a whole for three-quarters of the game.
Entering the fourth quarter, Bruins had been held to 213 total yards of offense and just seven points. UCLA scored 14 of its 21 points in the game on 170 yards of offense in the final period, when the game was already well in hand for Oklahoma, with the Sooners up 42-7.
The Sooner front seven was stellar in stifling the UCLA rushing attack.