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Houston Can't Keep Pace With No. 4 Oklahoma

NORMAN, Okla. -- Even one of the best nights ever for an Oklahoma player wasn't good enough for Jalen Hurts.
The new Sooners quarterback passed for three touchdowns and ran for three more, and No. 4 Oklahoma beat Houston 49-31 on Sunday night.

It was Hurts' first game for the Sooners since he transferred from Alabama. He put on a show as his predecessor, 2018 Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray, watched. He posted 508 total yards, the fifth-most in school history.

Hurts was not impressed. And at a school that has produced back-to-back Heisman-winning quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield and Murray, nitpicking has become the norm at that position.