Quarterback Dillon Gabriel had his best game of the season on Saturday night, as the No. 14 Sooners rolled past a fiesty Iowa State club that gave the OU defense a tussle enroute to a more formidable opponent in next week’s contest at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

The Sooners won 50-20. Iowa State kept the game close in the first half. Oklahoma’s defense shut them out in the second.

Gabriel had 366 yards passing, three touchdowns in the air and two with his legs. He completed 67 percent of his passes. It was a fine tuning of quarterback play necessary before the Sooners cross the Red River to play its next opponent, the No. 3 Texas Longhorns, who are having their best season in decades.

Both Oklahoma and Texas enter the annual Red River Rivalry undefeated. Ticket prices for the October 7 game at the stadium plopped in the middle of the Texas State Fair Midway are hovering above $400 a piece.

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