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Sooners vs. Doak Walker, again
Published: 12/31/2009 1:21 PM
Last Modified: 12/31/2009 1:25 PM

Oklahoma is facing a chunky Doak Walker Award winner in an El Paso Bowl game.
2009?
Yes, but it also happened in 1993.
OU was matched against Texas Tech and Doak Walker Award recipient Bam Morris in the 1993 Sun Bowl (it went by a corporate name, the John Hancock Bowl, that season).
Sooner defensive players got so tired of hearing about and reading about Morris in days leading up to the game that they got motivated to shut him down. OU became the second team that season to hold the 240-pound bruiser below 100 rushing yards. Morris netted “only” 95 yards on 27 carries and OU rolled to a 31-point victory.
“Bam, they gave him the Doak Walker Award for being the best running back in the nation and everything else,” Sooner defender John Anderson said. “But you can’t play in an inferior conference the whole season
and then come out and beat a team like Oklahoma.”
Morris accumulated just 65 yards until Tech’s final drive.
Said linebacker Mike Coats, “We wanted to prove to the nation that we could shut him down.”
Question: The next Sun Bowl just kicked off. Are the current Sooners so tired of hearing about 2009 Doak Walker Award winner Toby Gerhart, a 235-pound battering ram, that they will be motivated to put the clamps on him?
Stay tuned to see if the Sooners can turn back the clock to ‘93.


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