Nov 15, 2025, 07:14 PM ET<\/p>\n
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kip Lewis<\/a> had seven tackles, including two sacks, and No. 11 Oklahoma<\/a> stunned No. 4 Alabama<\/a> 23-21 on Saturday to send shockwaves through the Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n The Sooners (7-2, 4-2 SEC) had three takeaways, scoring 17 points off those turnovers, and got a key stop late to end Alabama’s winning streaks of eight games overall and 17 at home. The Crimson Tide (8-2, 6-1) had a chance down the stretch, but Ty Simpson’s fourth-down pass to Ryan Williams<\/a> fell incomplete.<\/p>\n The Sooners ran out the clock from there, setting off a raucous celebration by their visiting fans. Oklahoma — a 6\u00bd-point underdog, according to ESPN BET — managed just 212 yards of offense but had an interception and recovered two fumbles.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Alabama still controls its destiny in the SEC championship game race and the College Football Playoff and can secure a spot by beating rival Auburn in the Iron Bowl in two weeks.<\/p>\n Oklahoma held Alabama to 57 yards over its last four drives, which proved to be the difference and should be enough to get the Sooners into position for a playoff spot in the next CFP rankings.<\/p>\n Quarterback John Mateer<\/a> managed 161 total yards, including 138 passing, and scored on the ground to lead Oklahoma’s offense. Simpson threw for 326 yards, with a touchdown to tight end Josh Cuevas<\/a> and an interception. Daniel Hill<\/a> scored twice for the Tide.<\/p>\n Alabama’s plus-10 turnover margin entering Saturday was fourth-best nationally and best in the SEC. But that didn’t matter to Oklahoma, which also had three takeaways in a victory at Tennessee last week.<\/p>\n Oklahoma has six takeaways in two weeks after getting just four in its previous seven games. And the Sooners have scored 37 points off those turnovers.<\/p>\n Despite dominating in nearly every category, a series of errors by Alabama proved decisive. In addition to the turnovers, Alabama missed a 36-yard field goal and allowed a 46-yard punt return that set up Oklahoma’s first score.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 15, 2025, 07:14 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kip Lewis had seven tackles, including two sacks, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-294211","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\/294211","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=294211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}