{"id":1707,"date":"2010-10-19T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:45:54","slug":"first-10-bcs-standings-put-ou-and-landry-jones-in-prime-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/first-10-bcs-standings-put-ou-and-landry-jones-in-prime-position\/","title":{"rendered":"First 2010 BCS Standings put OU (and Landry Jones) in Prime Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jones Surpasses Performances of past Heisman Winners Bradford and White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following two weeks of\u00a0top-ranked teams being knocked off (See Alabama and Ohio State) their lofty perches, the Oklahoma Sooners blasted their way to the top spot of the initial 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCS football poll<\/a> by blowing out conference rival Iowa State 52-0 on Saturday in Norman, OK, \u00a0behind\u00a0two individual record-setting performances, including one by former <strong>NSR prospect Landry Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Landry had\u00a0the\u00a0kind of\u00a0day throwing the football which most signal callers can only dream\u00a0about when\u00a0he completed a remarkable 88.2 percent of his passes going 30 of 34\u00a0with\u00a0two TD&#8217;s and no interceptions.\u00a0\u00a0When you think about it, that is an enormous\u00a0accomplishment.\u00a0 Over the past\u00a0seven years the\u00a0Sooners\u00a0have produced two Heisman Trophy winners who were quarterbacks, Sam Bradford\u00a0in 2008 and\u00a0Jason White in 2003, yet neither was able to put together a single day of\u00a0passing\u00a0accuracy like Jones did against the Cyclones on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DeMarco Murray ran for 112 yards and two touchdowns to surpass 1969 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens&#8217; record of 57 touchdowns in his OU career\u00a0while making his own bid\u00a0for the\u00a0most valued post season honor in college football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones Surpasses Performances of past Heisman Winners Bradford and White Following two weeks of\u00a0top-ranked teams being knocked off (See Alabama and Ohio State) their lofty perches, the Oklahoma Sooners blasted their way to the top spot of the initial 2010 BCS football poll by blowing out conference rival Iowa State 52-0 on Saturday in Norman, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/first-10-bcs-standings-put-ou-and-landry-jones-in-prime-position\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14524,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/14524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}