{"id":266362,"date":"2025-11-02T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:55:09","slug":"john-mateer-leads-oklahoma-to-33-27-upset-of-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266362\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mateer leads Oklahoma to 33-27 upset of Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — John Mateer<\/a> threw for 159 yards and ran for 80 yards and a clinching touchdown with less than two minutes to play to lead No. 18 Oklahoma<\/a> to a 33-27 win<\/a> over No. 14 Tennessee<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Sooners (7-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) capitalized on three turnovers by the Volunteers (6-3, 3-3) to score 13 points.<\/p>\n

R Mason Thomas<\/a> returned a fumble 71 yards for a score, and Tate Sandell<\/a> hit two field goals after interceptions. Sandell had four field goals in the game — including two from 55 yards and one from 51.<\/p>\n

Joey Aguilar<\/a> threw for 393 yards and a pair of touchdowns to Braylon Staley<\/a>, who caught five passes in all for 75 yards.<\/p>\n

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Though Tennessee dominated the first-half offensive stats (255-99), the Vols’ mistakes allowed Oklahoma to lead 16-10.<\/p>\n

Mike Matthews<\/a> caught a 15-yard TD pass from Aguilar with 1:56 to play to cut the difference to 26-24. After the Sooners recovered the onside kick, Xavier Robinson<\/a> ran 43 yards and intentionally went down at the 1-yard line. Mateer’s 1-yard run iced the victory.<\/p>\n

Injuries in the defensive backfield caught up with the Volunteers. The disappointing loss in front of a frenzied crowd ended the Vols’ hopes to repeat as a CFP qualifier. The Vols will have an extra week to recover before trying to finish the season on a positive note. Oklahoma also has an open date before the Sooners play at Alabama on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — John Mateer threw for 159 yards and ran for 80 yards and a clinching touchdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-266362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}