2018 Week 16

Oklahoma entered the game looking to put forth a better performance than what happened in the first meeting between these two, but it wasn't meant to be. It was all Chippewas, all game, as CMU crushed Oklahoma 71-21 to win their third consecutive Big 12 Championship and also lock up their fourth consecutive trip to the National Championship.

The Chippewas held a commanding 43-14 lead at halftime and were eventually ahead 64-14 before Oklahoma scored their only TD of the 2nd half. "It was another game of us just clicking on all cylinders", said Carlson. "We scored a lot of TD's on long plays and explosion plays. We saw some areas we didn't take advantage of in our first meeting when we watched the film, but we did a good job of capitalizing on them today. It certainly helps that Aaron played probably his best game of his career today. We weren't trying to run up the score, but sometimes things are just going your way. Coach Taylor and I are still good friends and he knows we weren't running it up."

QB Aaron Smith certainly locked up the Heisman Trophy as he set school records for passing yards and passing TD's in a game. As well as breaking the single season passing TD record at CMU with 52. Smith finished the game with 509 yards passing on 25 completions and 7 TD's. Smith didn't use his legs much today rushing for 39 yards and 1 TD. RB Larry McPherson finished with 104 yards and 1 TD on 6 carries. It was a field day for the receiving corp as Jake Harris, Mike Lee and John Parker all had over 100 yards receiving. Parker and Nick Holley each had 2 TD's, while Harris, Lee and Duncan each caught 1 TD pass.

The Chippewas improves to 13-0 (10-0) and will face #1 Alabama for the National Championship next month.