Kansas State at Oklahoma

Saturday, October 23, 1954

No. 1 Oklahoma beat Kansas State 21–⁠0. It was their 39th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 26–⁠9–⁠4.

AwayKansas State7–⁠3 in 1954
0
Home1Oklahoma10–⁠0 in 1954
21

FinalHigh 70°F, low 53°F, 0.09 in. of rainAttendance 46,356

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 24, 1954, page 59

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    NORMAN, Okla, Oct. 23.--- Oklahoma failed to show the spark that made it the Nations No. ! football team, but the Sooners still were good enough to toy with Kansas State today and come up with q 21–⁠0 Big Seven Conferences decision. The victory was Oklahoma s 14th straight and its 42nd consecutive game without q loss in the conference. But the $4,000 fans watching the game were visibly bored by the lusterless performance. The Sooners were rated 40 points or better than the Wild cats after $50 romp over KAN saS last week, Coach Bud Wilkinson kept his first two teams In the game most Of they way but they were not up to par, fumbling ON their first running play Of the game.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Oklahoma 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Oklahoma leads 76–⁠22–⁠4 in 102 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2022Kansas State 41, Oklahoma 34
2021Oklahoma 37, Kansas State 31
2020Kansas State 38, Oklahoma 35
2019Kansas State 48, Oklahoma 41
2018Oklahoma 51, Kansas State 14
2017Oklahoma 42, Kansas State 35

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