Official recap
Sparked by the magic of Turner Gill, Nebraska scored on its first three possessions to take a 17-0 lead, then went on the blitz Oklahoma State, 54-7, before a regional television audience.
Gill directed touchdown drives the first two times Nebraska had the ball, and accounted for both scores himself on four- and nine-yard runs. Playing little more than a half, he completed eight-of-10 passes for 89 yards and one TD, and rushed for 42 more yards and the two scores. When he and the Husker offense were done, they had shredded a Cowboy defense, which came into the contest ranked first in the nation, for 546 yards of total offense.
The defense, meanwhile, gave up just 41 yards on the ground, but yielded 221 in the air and suffered the "indignity" of giving up a TD in the third quarter—ending a string of 22 TD-less quarters.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
SERIES HISTORY
SEASON STATS | NU ROSTER
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Nebraska 54
Oklahoma State 7
Nov. 7, 1981
Stillwater, OKNebraska 17 0 28 9 — 54
Oklahoma State 0 0 7 0 — 7
NEB — Turner Gill 4 run (Kevin Seibel kick)
NEB — Gill 9 run (Seibel kick)
NEB — FG Eddie Neil 27
NEB — Mitch Krenk 9 pass from Gill (Seibel kick)
NEB — Roger Craig 69 run (Seibel kick)
OSU — Ron Ingram 8 pass from Rusty Hilger
(Larry Roach kick)
NEB — Mike Rozier 93 kickoff return (Seibel kick)
NEB — Todd Brown 32 pass from Mark Mauer
(Seibel kick)
NEB — Safety. Ike Jackson tackled in end zone
NEB — Bruce Mathison 18 run (Seibel kick)
A—48,500
NU OSU
First downs 30 17
Rushes-yards 73-425 37-41
Passing yards 121 221
Return yards 82 32
Passes 9-14-1 15-34-6
Punts 2-36.0 4-39.5
Fumbles-lost 3-2 1-1
Penalties-yards 6-77 5-34
Time of possession 34:25 25:35
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing
Nebraska, Craig 12-121, Rozier 19-102, Gill 13-42, Tim Brungardt 7-37, Anthony Steels 2-25, Mathison 3-25, Phil Bates 7-24, Tom Rathman 4-20.
Oklahoma State. Shawn Jones 13-55. Ernest Anderson 6-17.
Passing
Nebraska, Gill 8-10-1-89, Mauer 1-4-0-32.
Oklahoma State, Hilger 9-19-3-137, John Doerner 5-12-2-75.
Receiving
Nebraska, Krenk 4-53, Brown 2-50.
Oklahoma State, Ingram 4-84, Dirk Davis 3-43, Terry Young 2-22, Mark Cromer 1-23, John Chesley 1-20.
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