Sooner tight ends only caught one pass all night, but it was then, when Thompson found Jermaine Gresham for 35 yards out of his own end zone that everything started to change.

“That kind of got us going,” Thompson said.

Thompson would go on to hit Juaquin Iglesias once, Kelly two more times and true freshman Adron Tennell once during the drive as he marched the Sooners down the field.

The last one was a 3-yard fade pattern that Kelly caught over his right shoulder while somehow getting a foot down before going out of bounds.

In the 99-yard drive, Thompson completed 6 of 8 passes for 95 yards.

Seven days earlier, in Stillwater, Thompson had only thrown for 77 yards. He bested that total in the space of one drive and just 3:21 on the clock.

Thanks to the Sooner defense, it was the game’s final touchdown.

It was the icing on the Big 12 championship cake.

Clay Horning366-3526cfhorning@normantranscript.com