ARLINGTON, Texas — Redshirt junior quarterback Kyler Murray led Oklahoma (12-1, 9-1 Big 12) to a 39-27 win in the Big 12 Championship Saturday afternoon.
Murray has another impressive performance Saturday in AT&T Stadium, throwing for 379 yards and three touchdowns in the win over Texas (9-4, 7-3 Big 12).
Here's what he had to say after the win:
On the defense's performance in the championship game
"It's something we talked about last night at our meeting behind closed doors, but we felt like we played together on all sides of the ball. That's a good team up there in West Virginia, but I feel like we found ourselves. Defense came up big last week and this week. When we weren't scoring, they got stops, and that's how football is supposed to be played. I think it was a great team win today, tonight, this morning, yeah."
On the game-clinching touchdown pass to Grant Calcaterra
"Yeah, it's a route I've thrown a million times. I can't tell you how many times I've thrown that route since I got to this school. Something we work on every day, one-on-ones, routes on air, and with this guy, I trust him, I trust anybody in the receiving room we got. They all out-blitzed us, and I was taking my chance when I saw the match-up, and Grant made a great catch."
On the offense not being as efficient as usual but still getting it done
"We threw the ball well. If they're going to sack the box, we got guys on the outside, we can throw the ball. I thought we played well when we needed to, as far as running the ball. That one drive where we wasted a lot of clock — it's not easy when everybody knows you're going to run the ball, and we still did it. Hats off to the linemen and the guys in the backfield that ran the ball well."
On if he thinks he did enough to win the Heisman
"I mean, I don't know. I just try to go out and play my game. Was worried about this game and this game only, all of that stuff will take care of itself. It was a great game today and I'm just glad we won."
On the depth in the receiving room
"I said it all year, we've got a great receiving room. Everybody sees the flash of Marquise and CeeDee, but they're not the only guys in that room. We all know what we have. These guys go to work every day and come to practice every day and work hard, work on their craft and you saw when the time came, we needed everybody today, and they stepped up."
