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Posted at 1:27 p.m., Saturday, September 6, 2008

CFB: Broyles breaks out as No. 4 Sooners beat Cincinnati

By JEFF LATZKE
AP Sports Writer

NORMAN, Okla. — Sam Bradford overcame two interceptions and threw for a career-best 395 yards and five touchdowns and No. 4 Oklahoma overpowered Cincinnati 52-26 today.

Freshman Ryan Broyles had a breakout game with 141 receiving yards, Jermaine Gresham caught two touchdown passes and the Sooners extended the nation's longest home winning streak to 20 games.

Broyles had a 27-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter and extended a key second-half drive with a leaping 43-yard catch to allow the Sooners (2-0) to start pulling away with 24 consecutive points.

Cincinnati's Mardy Gilyard returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown to break one of the longest runback droughts in college football. The last score by the Bearcats (1-1) on a kickoff return came in 1995, and only two schools have gone longer than Cincinnati's 145 games without one.

Gilyard finished with a school-record 365 all purpose yards, including 119 yards receiving on seven first-half catches.