Interim coach Bob Stoops returns to Oklahoma Sunners to win Alamo Cup

SAN ANTONIO – Bob Stoops and Oklahoma have won back together as in the old days.

Kennedy Brooks Ran 142 yards and three touchdowns, Caleb Williams The 14th-ranked Suners beat 15th-ranked Oregon 47-32 in the first half of Wednesday night’s Alamo Bowl match.

The victory marked the brief and happy reunion of the coach and school he led to a national championship and 10 Big 12 titles from 1999 to 2016. Stoops was called up from the golf course to retire to train for the bowl game after a sudden exit. Lincoln Relay for Southern California.

“I left it and came back,” Stoops said. “It was fun. Above all, the young people, the guys who were on the project, hugged me and I appreciate everyone working hard to get involved.”

Stoops carrier success number. 191 and raised his bowl record to 10-9. Getting the latest hit can be the easy part of all of this.

After Riley Bolt West turned it upside down, the work of sustaining the project as a whole was also important. Under the incoming coach of his former Oklahoma assistant Brent Venables, who has spent the past nine seasons in Clemson, Stoops had to build a permanent bridge to the new era.

“They get a guy who is interested, a guy who loves the game,” Stoops said. “A winner.”

The coach who once nicknamed Big Game Pop also became Big Huck Pop when his son and sonars embraced the receiver. Drake Stoops After the second quarter Touchdown catch. Drake walked in Oklahoma in 2018 after Bob retired.

Oklahoma (11-2) Brooks and Williams cut the Oregon defense to take a 30-3 lead. Brooks scored 127 yards, 16 and 29 yards in just 10 carries in the first half, and set another 40-yard run for Williams’ first touchdown pass to Drake Stoops.

Williams’ 55-yard TD pass Marvin Mims He hit the junior receiver right behind two Ducks defenders who came two steps late. Brooks then stabbed in the final score of the half.

The Suns were so dominant at the time that they looked like old teams of bulldozing running backs, defense and some of the stoop of quarterbacks who won the Heisman Trophy.

But Oregon (10-4) did not come out and made it out in the second half. The Ducks hit three touchdowns in the third quarter, coming in the long throw with two quarterbacks Anthony Brown, To get within 44-25 at the start of the fourth. Brown finished 306 yards Travis die Rushed 153 yards and a touchdown to Oregon.

After Mario Cristobal’s departure for Miami, Oregon was led by assistant coach Brian McLendon, who was promoted to interim head coach for the Cup. Oregon have hired Georgia’s defensive coordinator Dan Lanning, who will capture the ducks after the college football playoffs.

“It hurts,” McLendon said. “We played in the second half. It’s not a consolation prize.”

The sudden departure of the relay and the fact that many players were bolting or changing before the NFL caused the show’s fan base to panic. Venables was in the game and was around the team during bowl practice. He needs to be careful about where the Suners go next season.

Wenables’ biggest job is to create a future with Williams, not sure if he plans to be with the Sooners next year.

Williams did not resolve the issue after the game. He called the last few weeks a “roller coaster” and said he was going on vacation with his family.

“Oklahoma picked the right guy to come here,” Williams said of Wenables.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.