Florida State Seminoles @ Oklahoma Sooners Football Recap

The Florida State Seminoles entered Norman, Oklahoma, looking to solidify their claim of a new era of Seminole dominance in college football. But the Oklahoma Sooners, who had won 31 straight games at Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium, had different plans for the day.

On a 95-degree day, the Noles kicked off to the Sooners and watched as the favored home team drove down the field without any appreciable resistance to score on its first possession. Seminole fans weren't worried, though. The defense they have is young and inexperienced, plus Heisman hopeful Christian Ponder was yet to step on the field at that early stage of the contest.

After that early score for the Sooners, Ponder justified his team's confidence by leading the Noles downfield to answer with a touchdown of their own. Like most analysts believed would happen, the game began as a shoot-out. Two dominant offenses would make the game a high-scoring affair. Or so fans thought.

On the next Sooner possession, OU quarterback Landry Jones led the Sooners by completing passes of 22 and 18 yards on a nine-play drive in just under four minutes for the next Oklahoma touchdown. The Sooners led 14–7 and had gained a degree of momentum they wouldn't lose for the rest of the game.

Ponder stepped on the field once again for the Noles, seeking to answer the second OU score, yet an incomplete pass and a sack for a 12-yard loss - right after a meager two-yard rush by Jermaine Thomas - left the Noles with their first three-and-out of the game. Five plays and 49 seconds later, Jones had completed a 36-yard TD pass to Cameron Kenney to put the Sooners up 20–7 after the missed extra point. From that point on, the Sooners took over the game and exposed an inexperienced and rebuilding Seminole team. Ponder's offense scored just three more points (a Dustin Hopkins 52-yard field goal) before back-up quarterback E.J. Manuel was brought in.

 

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