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Numbers behind how OU shut down the nation's leading rusher and beat Missouri

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A defensive-dominant 17-6 win over No. 22 Missouri now leaves the 8th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners just one win shy from landing a spot in what at the beginning of the month seemed like an improbable path to the College Football Playoff.

For the third-straight game in what college football experts like to call Championship November, the Sooners beat a top-25 opponent, with two of those coming on the road at two of the most difficult places to play in all of college football at then-No. 14 Tennessee and then-No. 4 Alabama.

Oklahoma held Missouri's offense, ranked No.