South Carolina

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final
South Carolina	7	21	7	7	42
Oklahoma	0	10	0	15	25

Scoring detail: Q1 — South Carolina: LaNorris Sellers 15-yd TD run (Malik Orsan PAT). Q2 — Oklahoma: Kip Lewis 30-yd interception return TD (Tate Sandell PAT); South Carolina: Christian Clark 1-yd TD run (Orsan PAT); Sellers to DJ Black, 84-yd TD (Orsan PAT); Oklahoma: Sandell 52-yd field goal; South Carolina: Sellers to Nyck Harbor, 8-yd TD (Orsan PAT). Q3 — South Carolina: Sellers 11-yd TD run (Orsan PAT). Q4 — Oklahoma: John Mateer to Ivan Carreon, 34-yd TD (two-point try failed); South Carolina: Sellers to Mazeo Bennett Jr., 79-yd TD (Orsan PAT); Oklahoma: Sandell 34-yd field goal; Mateer to Carreon, 10-yd TD (two-point try failed).

Category	South Carolina	Oklahoma
First downs (pass / rush / penalty)	22 (8 / 12 / 2)	24 (10 / 8 / 6)
Total plays	71	74
Total yards	521	359
Yards per play	7.3	4.9
Passing (comp / att)	21 / 27	26 / 43
Net passing yards	309	244
Rushing (att / yards)	44 / 212	31 / 115
Sacks by defense	3	1
Sacks allowed (count / yards)	1 / 5	3 / 9
Third-down conversions	8 / 14	7 / 17
Fourth-down conversions	1 / 2	0 / 1
Red-zone scores / chances	4 / 4	2 / 3
Turnovers (INT / fumbles lost)	3 (3 / 0)	0 (0 / 0)
Penalties (count / yards)	9 / 90	9 / 74
Time of possession	32:14	27:46
Punts	3	6

Team stats via the Sportradar box score, cross-checked against the University of Oklahoma recap: 521–359 total yardage, Mateer 26-of-43 for 244 yards, and Oklahoma’s three interceptions with no turnovers of its own.

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Kicking: South Carolina — Malik Orsan 6/6 PATs, no field-goal attempts; Mason Love punted 3 times for 142 yards. Oklahoma — Tate Sandell 2/2 field goals (52 and 34 yards), 1/1 PAT, with both fourth-quarter two-point tries failing; Jacob Ulrich punted 6 times for 274 yards.

• Sellers was the best player on the field by a mile. The South Carolina quarterback accounted for five touchdowns and 397 total yards — 19-of-24 for 301 yards and three touchdowns passing, 13 carries for 96 yards and two scores rushing — including touchdown strikes of 84 yards to DJ Black and 79 yards to Mazeo Bennett Jr. He did it despite throwing two interceptions, one of them a pick-six.
• Oklahoma’s offense vanished for three quarters. The Sooners managed 71 yards in the first half and 118 through three quarters, punted six times, and did not score an offensive touchdown until the first snap of the fourth quarter. Mateer’s 244 passing yards and both touchdowns are fourth-quarter production against a game already decided.
• Winning turnovers 3–0 was not enough. Oklahoma intercepted Sellers twice and backup Cutter Woods once, scored on Lewis’ 30-yard return, committed no turnovers — and still lost by 17. Per Oklahoma’s official recap, it was OU’s first loss with a plus-3 turnover margin since 2006.
• South Carolina’s defense owned the line early. Three sacks of Mateer, three-and-outs forced throughout the first three quarters, and a final stand at the 1-yard line in the last minute: the Gamecocks held Oklahoma to 115 rushing yards and 2-of-3 in the red zone while their own offense went 4-for-4 in the red zone and 8-of-14 on third down.
• The kicking edge never came into play. The preview’s clearest South Carolina advantage was Orsan over the slumping Sandell; instead Sandell was perfect (2-for-2, including a 52-yarder) and Orsan was never asked to kick a field goal in a game South Carolina controlled throughout.

1. Sportradar box score: South Carolina vs Oklahoma, Oct. 31, 2026Quarter scoring, full team comparison, complete player stat lines, all scoring plays, and reported game conditions (Overcast, 65°F, wind SSE 8 mph).
2. University of Oklahoma: Sooners Fall to South CarolinaOfficial recap: 42–25 final, 521–359 yardage, Lewis pick-six, Carreon’s two touchdowns, Mateer 26-of-43 for 244 yards, postgame records (SC 5–3, 3–3 SEC; OU 4–4, 2–3 SEC), and the plus-3 turnover-margin loss note.
3. The Oklahoman: OU football overwhelmed in blowout loss to South CarolinaQuarter-by-quarter score table (7–0, 28–10, 35–10, 42–25) and play-by-play confirmation of every scoring play.
4. Greenville Online: South Carolina, LaNorris Sellers shred Oklahoma defense42–25 final; Sellers 19-of-24 for 301 yards, three passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns; 521 yards as South Carolina’s best SEC offensive day since 2024.
5. USA Today: Oklahoma dominated by South Carolina, 42–25Independent confirmation of the final; South Carolina’s 521 yards and 42 points as the most allowed by Oklahoma since joining the SEC.
6. On3: South Carolina defense spooks Sooners in 42–25 Halloween victoryDefensive context: 71 Oklahoma first-half yards, three first-half three-and-outs forced, and South Carolina’s three interceptions thrown (two by Sellers, one by Woods).

Caveats

• Weather: the gamebar uses the reported game conditions (Overcast, 65°F, wind 8 mph). The Open-Meteo archive for Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (35.2059, -97.4423, America/Chicago) showed overcast skies (weather code 3), 66.8°F and 6.1 mph wind at the 3:00 PM CT kickoff hour — consistent with the reported figure, so the reported figure stands.
• Attendance was not published in any source reviewed and is omitted rather than estimated.
• Rocky Beers receptions: Oklahoma’s official recap credited Beers with five catches for 51 yards; the Sportradar box score lists four catches for 51 yards, and that line reconciles exactly with Mateer’s verified totals (26 completions, 244 yards). The box-score figure is used.
• Mateer completions: one Greenville Online recap line wrote 25-of-43; the official Oklahoma recap and the box score both say 26-of-43 for 244 yards and two touchdowns, and 26 is used.
• Ranks: neither team was ranked in the AP Top 25 entering Week 9, so no rank prefix is shown; the hero lines show postgame records.
• Entering records: both teams entered 4–3 — South Carolina 2–3 in the SEC, Oklahoma 2–2 — per the preview page and confirmed by the postgame records above.