Oklahoma State extends road streak, ends Missouri’s home streak

How ‘bout them Cowboys?!

No, not the NFL kind from Dallas. We’re talking about the Big 12 Conference kind from Stillwater, Okla.

The Oklahoma State Cowboys, ranked sixth, ran their road winning streak to nine and ended Missouri’s home winning streak at 10 with a 45-24 win at Columbia, Mo. on Saturday.

These Cowboys are 7-0 for only the third time in school history, 4-0 in the Big 12 Conference, and on track for one of the most bedlam in all its Bedlam rivalry games with No. 3 Oklahoma. That game will be played Dec. 3.

Oklahoma State’s win over Missouri was to blueprint, right down to the Cowboys giving up a lot of yardage. Missouri had 463 yards.

But here’s something else that has become routine: Oklahoma State’s defense, while bending plenty, came up with another handful of turnovers.

In the second half alone, Missouri quarterback James Franklin lost a fumble and had three passes intercepted. The Cowboys have forced 22 turnovers in their last five games.

And, of course, Oklahoma State seems to always light up the scoreboard. Even with both starting wide receivers injured, the Cowboys had 533 yards, including 138 yards rushing in 14 carries by Joseph Randle, who scored on runs of 16, 59 and 12 yards, and also caught a 13-yard touchdown pass.

Quarterback Brandon Weeden completed 19 of 25 passes for 214 yards — in the first quarter. The incompletions? All drops.

“We may score 40 in the first half if we just catch the dang ball,” Coach Mike Gundy said.

Gundy had reason to be a little grumpy. Receiver Hubert Anyiam will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a broken bone in his left foot. Justin Blackmon, the other starter, sustained an injury to his right shoulder and was held out of the second half as a precaution.

On the Case

It didn’t take Case Keenum long to get the 130 yards he needed to replace Hawaii’s Timmy Chang as major-college football’s career leader in total offense.

He established the record on a 30-yard pass to Justin Johnson with 3 minutes 56 seconds left in the first quarter of Houston’s 63-28 win over Marshall.

Keenum finished with 376 yards passing and six touchdowns, completing 24 of 28. His career total in offense is now 17,173 yards. Chang had 16,910 from 2000-04.

Streakers

Stanford has the longest winning streak in major college football — 15 games after a 65-21 win over Washington — and the Cardinal has also dominated Las Vegas.

Stanford has beaten the spread in all seven of its victories this season. The Cardinal was a 20-point favorite over Washington.

No waddling

No Darron Thomas, no LaMichael James, no problem.

Even without its quarterback and the nation’s per-game rushing leader, Oregon wasted no time in its 45-2 rout of Colorado. The five scoring drives by the Ducks offense were 1 minute 36 seconds, 2:11, :50, 1:46 and 1:29 in duration.

Of Oregon’s 43 touchdown drives this season, 22 have lasted 1:39 or less.

Giveaways

North Carolina turned the ball over six times in a 59-38 loss to Clemson — more turnovers than a lot of Dean Smith and Roy Williams-coached Tar Heels basketball teams have committed in a game.

Clemson defensive end Kourtnei Brown was a main recipient, scoring on interception and fumble returns to become the first Tigers defensive lineman in 57 years with two touchdowns in a game.

By the numbers

Top-ranked Louisiana State has gone 341 snaps over 59 possessions without a turnover. … Mississippi scored more points, 17, in the first half of its 29-24 loss to Arkansas than it had in any of its three previous Southeastern Conference games.

mike.hiserman@latimes.com

Times wire services contributed to this report.