Oklahoma Baptist clinched its first winning season since 1940 with its most-lopsided win of the season Saturday, drubbing Texas College 62-0 at The Hurt.
OBU had 655 yards total offense on 66 plays while holding the Steers to 207 yards total offense, including negative two yards on 29 rushes.
After racking up more than 200 yards in penalties last week, the Bison cut that number to 35 Saturday.
"That's just a matter of focus," said OBU Coach Chris Jensen. "We corrected that this week and, overall, just had a really good game today."
The Bison ran for 391 yards on 39 carries with four different backs getting at least one rush of 25 or more yards.
Jordan Barnes led the Bison with 129 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries while Dawson Myers scored three times on nine carries, gaining 117 yards.
Barnes had runs of 55 and 26 yards, Cale Grauer had a 45-yard run, Myers had rushes of 28, 21 and 18 yards, Jake Ellis had a 30-yard run and Stephan Turner had an 18-yard run.
The Bison set the tone early. After forcing a TX punt, the Bison marched 93 yards on six plays, including Barnes' 55-yard tote to set up a five-yard scoring run by Myers with 9:35 left in the first quarter.
Eugene Estes helped the Bison to a 14-0 lead on the next play from scrimmage, intercepting a pass and running it back 25 yards for a touchdown.
A bad punt snap gave the Bison the ball on the TC 34 and OBU scored on one play – a Blake Woodard pass to Turner for the 2-0 lead with 6:17 left in the first quarter.
OBU completed the 27-point opening frame with a 26-yard scoring run by Myers to cap a four-play, 95-yard drive. That drive also included Turner's 18-yard run and a 43-yard pass from Woodard to Nyko Symonds, who finished the game with 101 receiving yards.
A pair of second-quarter turnovers took the Bison's foot off the accelerator temporarily and OBU settled for a single touchdown – a seven-yard run by Woodard to and an 11-play, 65-yard drive.
OBU scored on a quick five-play drive to open the second half, with Woodard completing two passes for 31 yards before Barnes scored from 11 yards out.
The Bison defense stopped the Steers on fourth down from the OBU 31 and the offense was in the end zone four plays later on Grauer's 45-yard scoring run for a 48-0 lead.
Myers had a 28-yard run and Grauer a keeper for 13 to help set up a 21-yard Myers scoring run in the fourth quarter to stack the lead to 55-0.
Ellis had his 30-yard run in the final scoring drive, which he capped on a fourth and goal from the one.
Woodard passed for 224 of OBU's 264 yards through the air on the day, completing 14 of 21 attempts, while Grauer got the other 40 on 4 of 6 passing. Turner had 76 yards on five catches to follow Symonds' six-reception performance.
Zack Bishop led OBU with seven tackles, including 1.5 sacks and two tackles for loss. Gage Wimer had 1.5 sacks and three tackles for losses of 15 yards. Christian Edmonds had 1.5 sacks. Tyler Day and Christian Doty had one sack each and Kimes Gilbert and Clint Wilson were in on a half sack each.
With the win, OBU improved to 6-3 on the season heading into its bye week. It is the first winning season since the 1940 team went 8-3.
Symonds, with his six catches on the day, broke his own school record of 37 and now has 40 on the season.
OBU returns to action Nov. 8 at home against Bacone in the final home game of the season. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
The Bison close out the season at Wayland Baptist Nov. 15.
