AMES, Iowa (Ticker) -- Top-ranked Oklahoma opens Big 12 Conference play against an opponent it has dominated for decades. The Sooners return from their bye week to play at Iowa State, which has beaten them a grand total of once in the last 41 years. Since 1962, the Sooners are 35-1-1 against the Cyclones, whose only win during that span was a 33-31 victory in Norman in 1990. The teams also played to a 7-7 tie at Oklahoma in 1981. Oklahoma (4-0) leads the all-time series, 64-5-2, winning 18 in a row in Ames. Iowa State has not won at home in the series since 1960. The Sooners drubbed the Cyclones, 49-3, last season following a two-year hiatus in the series. Oklahoma allowed just 60 total yards and five first downs. In their last contest, the Sooners routed UCLA, 59-24, on September 20, a game in which Antonio Perkins set two NCAA records with three touchdowns and 277 yards on punt returns. Perkins became the first Division I-A player to score on three punt returns in one game, recording touchdowns of 74, 84 and 65 yards. Oklahoma is 6-0 after bye weeks under coach Bob Stoops. Iowa State's loss to Oklahoma last season started the Cyclones on a downward spiral that has continued this year as they have dropped seven of their last nine. After opening this year with wins over Northern Iowa and Ohio, the Cyclones (2-2, 0-0) have suffered back-to-back losses to Iowa and Northern Illinois. Austin Flynn, the nation's top-rated freshman quarterback, completed 16-of-33 passes for 182 yards with two interceptions in last week's 24-16 loss to Northern Iowa. Michael Wagner rushed for 97 yards on 18 carries.

Top-Ranked Sooners Overpower Cyclones, 53-7 Ames, Iowa (AP) -- Top-ranked Oklahoma looked sharp and overpowering in its tuneup for Texas. Jason White tied a school record with five touchdown passes while throwing for a career-high 393 yards, Mark Bradley returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and Oklahoma played its usual dominating defense in beating Iowa State 53-7 Saturday night. The Sooners (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) piled up 613 yards in their third straight game with more than 50 points and now can turn full attention to their annual showdown with Texas (No. 13 ESPN/USA Today, No. 13 Associated Press) in Dallas next Saturday. Iowa State (2-3, 0-1) played stout defense early and kept Oklahoma out of the end zone on its first three possession. But the Cyclones couldn't get any pressure on White and eventually were done in by the Sooners' speed. There was no better example than White's short flip to Will Peoples on a screen pass. Peoples simply outran the defense to complete a 45-yard scoring play that made it 29-0 early in the second half. White also threw scoring passes of 24 and 12 yards to Mark Clayton, 15 yards to Jejuan Rankins and 39 yards to Bradley. White finished 26-of-34 with completions to 10 receivers and no interceptions. White had the fourth best single-game yardage total in school history and the five TD passes matched the OU record held by Josh Heupel. Heupel twice threw five TD passes in a game in 1999. White's previous best for yardage was 343 against Baylor in 2001. He left the game after his second touchdown pass to Clayton, which came with 12:18 left. And then there was that Oklahoma defense, ranked fifth nationally going in. Iowa State's first 14 plays produced only 19 yards and the Cyclones managed just 234 yards for the game. The swarming Sooners harassed Iowa State's redshirt freshman quarterback, Austin Flynn, from the outset. Flynn was 6-of-17 for 88 yards, was intercepted twice and sacked six times. Iowa State avoided being shut out for the first time in 136 games when JaMaine Billups returned an interception off reserve Paul Thompson 77 yards for a touchdown with 10:48 left. The Cyclones' celebration was short lived. Bradley fielded the kickoff at the goal line, sprinted up the middle, cut toward the right sideline at midfield and easily outran the pursuit to make it 46-7. Oklahoma's outstanding punt returner and starting cornerback, Antonio Perkins, was helped off the field with what appeared to be an injury to his right leg after being tackled with 8:20 left. The extent of the injury wasn't immediately known. Iowa State tried everything it could to get something going against the Sooners, including a fake punt and a halfback pass. Running back Michael Wagner's 39-yard completion to Lance Young was Iowa State's longest gain of the night. Punter Tony Yelk completed a pass to linebacker Nik Moser that would have gone for a first down, but an illegal-procedure penalty nullified the play and the Cyclones had to kick it away. Oklahoma promptly zipped 79 yards in eight plays to take a 9-0 lead on White's pass to Rankins, who caught the ball at the 5, broke two tackles and squirted into the end zone. A fumble led to the next OU score. Defensive tackle Tommie Harris raced upfield to knock the ball loose from receiver Jack Whitver, who was fighting for extra yards, and Derrick Stout recovered for the Sooners at the ISU 39. On the next play, Bradley got behind Ellis Hobbs and Marc Timmons and hauled in White's perfectly thrown pass in the end zone. Oklahoma made it 22-0 after forcing a punt late in the first half and driving to the Iowa State 24. White slipped as he dropped back to pass but regained his balance and threw a straight-line strike to Clayton in the end zone with 28 seconds left in the half.

Score by Quarters    1  2  3  4 Score
-----------------   -- -- -- -- -----
Oklahoma Sooners.... 3 19 10 21 - 53  Record: (5-0,1-0)
Iowa State.......... 0  0  0  7 -  7  Record: (2-3,0-1)

Scoring Summary:
1st 08:27 OU - DiCarlo, Trey 32 yd field goal, 8-47 3:47, OU 3 - IS 0
2nd 09:53 OU - Rankins, Jejuan 15 yd pass from White, Jason (DiCarlo, Trey kick failed), 8-79 4:05, OU 9 - IS 0
04:33 OU - Bradley, Mark 39 yd pass from White, Jason (DiCarlo, Trey kick), 1-39 0:08, OU 16 - IS 0
00:28 OU - Clayton, Mark 24 yd pass from White, Jason (White, Jason pass failed), 6-63 2:35, OU 22 - IS 0
3rd 10:50 OU - Peoples, Will 45 yd pass from White, Jason (DiCarlo, Trey kick), 4-67 0:51, OU 29 - IS 0
03:18 OU - DiCarlo, Trey 22 yd field goal, 13-78 6:02, OU 32 - IS 0
4th 12:18 OU - Clayton, Mark 12 yd pass from White, Jason (DiCarlo, Trey kick), 8-71 3:50, OU 39 - IS 0
10:48 IS - Billups,Jamain 77 yd interception return (Benike,Adam kick), , OU 39 - IS 7
10:34 OU - Bradley, Mark 100 yd kickoff return (DiCarlo, Trey kick), , OU 46 - IS 7
01:10 OU - Hickson, Donta 5 yd run (DiCarlo, Trey kick), 15-91 7:10, OU 53 - IS 7

				OU 	ISU
FIRST DOWNS................... 	35 	10
RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 	41-199 	31-88
PASSING YDS (NET)............. 	414 	146
Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 	39-29-1 26-10-2
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 	80-613 	57-234
Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 	0-0 	0-0
Punt Returns-Yards............ 	3--1 	2-9
Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 	2-113 	8-117
Interception Returns-Yards.... 	2-2 	1-77
Punts (Number-Avg)............ 	4-44.0 	8-41.5
Fumbles-Lost.................. 	2-0 	2-1
Penalties-Yards............... 	8-56 	5-53
Possession Time............... 	36:54 	23:06
Third-Down Conversions........ 	6 of 12 1 of 13
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 	0 of 0 	0 of 2
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 	5-6 	0-0
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 	6-40 	0-0

RUSHING: Oklahoma Sooners-Works, Renaldo 19-95; Jones, Kejuan 11-64;
Hickson, Donta 5-22; Thompson, Paul 4-16; Clayton, Mark 1-3; TEAM 1-minus 1.
Iowa State-Flynn,Austin 19-49; Wagner,Michael 8-26; Hicks,Stevie 3-16;
Danielsen,Lane 1-minus 3.

PASSING: Oklahoma Sooners-White, Jason 26-34-0-384; Thompson, Paul
3-5-1-30. Iowa State-Flynn,Austin 6-17-2-88; Love,Cris 3-8-0-19;
Wagner,Michael 1-1-0-39.

RECEIVING: 
Oklahoma Sooners-Clayton, Mark 7-93; Peoples, Will 5-80;
Rankins, Jejuan 3-45; Wilson, Travis 3-42; Bradley, Mark 2-48; Works,
Renaldo 2-32; Jones, Brandon 2-15; Jones, Kejuan 1-21; Hickson, Donta 1-12;
Donley, Lance 1-11; Townsend, Dan 1-9; Runnels, J.D. 1-6. Iowa State-Young,
Lance 2-48; Danielsen,Lane 2-45; Whitver,Jack 2-29;Banks-Bursey,D 2-13; Miller,
Todd 1-6; Montgomery,Jam 1-5.

INTERCEPTIONS: Oklahoma Sooners-Pool, Brodney 2-2. Iowa
State-Billups,Jamain 1-77.

FUMBLES: Oklahoma Sooners-Perkins, Antoni 1-0; Peoples, Will 1-0.
Iowa State-Whitver,Jack 1-1; Flynn,Austin 1-0.

SACKS (UA-A): Oklahoma Sooners-Dvoracek, Dusty 2-0; Birdine, Larry
1-0; Harris, Tommie 1-0; Nicholson, Dont 1-0; Chambers, Wayne 1-0. Iowa
State-None.

TACKLES (UA-A): Oklahoma Sooners-Nicholson, Dont 5-2; Chambers, Wayne
4-0; Allen, Gayron 4-0; Strait, Derrick 3-1; Cody, Dan 2-2; Jackson, Jonath
1-3; Harris, Tommie 3-0; Birdine, Larry 3-0; Perkins, Antoni 3-0; Everage,
Brando 3-0; Dvoracek, Dusty 2-1; Lehman, Teddy 0-3; Pool, Brodney 2-0;
Bradley, Mark 2-0; Carter, Jason 2-0; Shelby, Brandon 1-0; Runnels, J.D.
1-0; Bassey, Eric 1-0; Klein, Kory 1-0; Baker, Lewis 1-0; Dennison, Russe
1-0. Iowa State-Billups,Jamain 8-3; Moser,Nik 6-2; Brown,Brandon 6-2;
Anderson,Erik 6-1; Curvey,Brent 5-2; Timmons,Marc 4-3; Viers,Boyd 3-2;
Hobbs,Ellis 2-3; Johnson,Cephus 3-1; Danielsen,Lane 3-0; Leaders,Nick 2-1;
Woodley,Joe 0-3; Clewis,Harold 2-0; Smith,Johnny 1-1; Klaffke,Beau 0-2;
Shelton,Casey 1-0; Flower,Dominiq 1-0; Linder,Nick 1-0; Jones,Christop 1-0;
Smith,Korey 1-0; Baum,Ryan 1-0; Whitaker,Chris 0-1; Berryman,Jason 0-1.

Attendance: 49,670

Updated: 10/6/03