OU notebook

By John Helsley | Published: November 9, 2006

Dallas voters OK Cotton Bowl improvements
Tuesday’s election results in Dallas may impact the future of the OU-Texas series, with the passage of several bond propositions. Voters approved more than $1.35 billion worth of projects, including a major renovation of the Cotton Bowl.

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Among the targeted stadium improvements: seats, scoreboard, bathrooms, concessions, locker rooms and expanding capacity to more than 92,000.

There’s even a study to investigate the feasibility of doming the stadium, which may be necessary to keep the annual Cotton Bowl Classic game in the 76-year-old facility.

Pounding the rock: Since losing Adrian Peterson to a broken collarbone in Game 6, the Sooners haven’t backed off their running game, they’ve pounded it.

OU is coming off its two best rushing games to date, going for 231 against Missouri and 224 against Texas A&M. The previous high was 207 at Oregon in the third game of the season.

Allen Patrick, Peterson’s replacement, has extended OU’s streak of 100-yard games to 15. Patrick’s three games as the starter have produced outings of 110, 157 and 173 yards.

The Sooners had 169 yards by halftime at A&M, before slowing down in a second half that saw a Patrick 78-yard touchdown run wiped out by penalty.

Patrick regularly ran behind left guard George Robinson and left tackle Chris Messner.

“I’m not going to say it was the best game I’ve ever played, but for a half, it was like we could do no wrong,” Messner said.

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