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NORMAN, Okla. | Sam was Samsonlike.
Sam Bradford overcame two interceptions and threw for a career-best 395 yards and five touchdowns and No. 4 Oklahoma overpowered Cincinnati 52-26 on Saturday.
Freshman Ryan Broyles had a breakout game with 141 receiving yards, Jermaine Gresham caught two touchdown passes and the Sooners extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 20 games.
Broyles had a 27-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter and extended a key second-half drive with a leaping 43-yard catch to allow the Sooners, 2-0, to start pulling away with 24 consecutive points.
For Bradford, who led the nation in quarterback rating last season, it was the third time he tied the school record for TD passes held by 2003 Heisman Trophy winner Jason White and 2000 Heisman runner-up Josh Heupel. His only other two-interception game came in an upset loss last season at Colorado.
Cincinnati’s Mardy Gilyard returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown to break one of the longest runback droughts in college football. The last score by the Bearcats, 1-1, on a kickoff return came in 1995, and only two schools have gone longer than Cincinnati’s 145 games without one.
Gilyard finished with a school-record 365 all-purpose yards, including 119 yards receiving on seven first-half catches.
Cincinnati’s turnover-happy defense kept it close for a while, clamping down after allowing the Sooners to get off to a 14-0 start.
•AT NEBRASKA 35, SAN JOSE STATE 12: Niles Paul ran back a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, allowing the Cornhuskers, 2-0, to break open a close game. The Spartans made it 14-12 with a field goal early in the fourth. On the kickoff, Paul made a move left and went up the sideline untouched. Roy Helu Jr. scored on a 14-yard run and Marlon Lucky from 5 yards out to put the game out of reach and send the Spartans to their 12th straight nonconference road loss.
•TEXAS A&M 28, AT NEW MEXICO 22: Jerrod Johnson replaced the injured Stephen McGee and threw three touchdown passes as Texas A&M gave coach Mike Sherman his first win with the Aggies. Texas A&M, 1-1, making its first trip to Albuquerque, survived New Mexico’s swarming defensive scheme and bounced back from an embarrassing season-opening loss, 18-14 to Arkansas State.
•AT COLORADO 31, EASTERN WASHINGTON 24: For the second time in just over two years, the Buffaloes got all they could handle from a Big Sky Conference team. Cornerback Cha’pelle Brown picked off a pass and returned it 27 yards to break a 24-24 tie with less than two minutes left.
•AT BAYLOR 51, NW STATE 6: Robert Griffin passed for three touchdowns and rushed for another in his first career start, and coach Art Briles earned his first win at Baylor as the Bears snapped a nine-game skid.
•AT OKLAHOMA STATE 56, HOUSTON 37: Dez Bryant had 236 yards receiving and scored four touchdowns and Kendall Hunter rushed for 210 yards and two touchdowns.
•AT IOWA STATE 48, KENT STATE 28: Austen Arnaud and Phillip Bates each threw a touchdown pass to R.J. Sumrall and Iowa State turned a blocked punt and two fumble recoveries into 21 points.
•NO. 10 TEXAS AT TEXAS-EL PASO: Late
| The Associated Press
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