Sam Bradford rifled a 37-yard touchdown pass to Juaquin Iglesias with 6:23 left in the third quarter.
At that point, the Oklahoma Sooners set a record for the most points ever scored against Texas A&M at Kyle Field. They went on to claim a 66-28 victory.
"I'm not looking for that," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "That's just not something we were concerned about. I don't take any pride on having my name on something like that. We're just trying to win and to play well down the stretch."
The Sooners were within 19 points of the old record by halftime when they held a 38-14 lead. The Sooners topped the Kyle Field record set by Texas, when the Longhorns scored 57 in 1977.
Sam Bradford didn't throw a pass on the opening drive, a four-play, 90-yard march, but the Sooners' quarterback ended up hitting 22 of 33 attempts for 320 yards and four touchdown passes on his 21st birthday. To celebrate, his team scored 21 points in the first quarter.
The Sooners rushed for 142 yards and passed for 96 in the opening period, gaining 11 first downs.
"We left some points out there and left some plays out there, but if you can score 38 points in a half, you've got to be happy," said Bradford, who didn't play in the fourth quarter. "We knew this was a loud stadium, but we knew that if we came in and jumped on them early that they would quiet down and we felt like we did that today."
Stoops believed that OU's opening drive might have taken something out of the Aggies.
"You would think it would," Stoops said. "I know it always charges us up when we get something going like that, run and pass. When you're able to run like that, it makes some of the other things easier."
Chris Brown added 117 yards rushing and three touchdowns on 13 carries, running virtually untouched on all of them.
The Sooners averaged 8.6 yards per rushing attempt. Overall, they rolled up 653 yards of offense.
"It really didn't surprise me," Brown said. "The guys up front did a great job. We knew coming in that we could do some good things against these guys."
DeMarco Murray rushed seven times for 126 yards and had a receiving touchdown.
"We got into a rhythm and everything was clicking" Bradford said. "I think we were pretty balanced with the run and the pass in that first quarter and it was hard for that defense to figure out which one they wanted to [defend].
The win marked the Sooners' third straight game of scoring 50 or more points. It was the second game this season where Oklahoma rolled up over 600 yards of total offense, even though the Sooners called off the dogs in the fourth period.
"There are still sportsmanship issues that you do your best to handle," Stoops said. "We played hard and let it go through three quarters and then you've got 66. You have to choose sportsmanship over whatever they are, BCS points or whatever. To me, that is still the right way to play it."
It's not as though Stoops was unaware of other games involving BCS contenders. He was told on the sideline that Iowa had upset Penn State.
"I'm just excited for the Hawkeyes, my alma mater," said Stoops. "[Administrative coordinator] Matt McMillan walked down and told me once they had kicked a field goal and we were pretty well ahead. He didn't figure it would distract me a whole lot."
Stoops praised the overall effort of his Sooners, who scored their second defensive touchdown of the season when sophomore quarterback Dominique Franks grabbed a fumbled pitch and ran 39 yards for the final Sooner touchdown.
"Coming in here is never easy, or hasn't been" Stoops said. "To put it all together and play as soundly as we did, I'm just pleased."
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