BIG 12 Sooners hold off rival

For the first time in 40 games, neither team came in ranked.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Adrian Peterson ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns and Oklahoma held off Nebraska's comeback bid to win 31-24 Saturday, giving the Cornhuskers back-to-back home losses in the same season for the first time since 1968.
Peterson, coming off an ankle injury that limited him for a month, scored a 36-yard touchdown on his first carry. He added a 2-yard TD run in the second quarter as Oklahoma broke out to a 24-3 lead.
Nebraska put together two straight TD drives in the second half to pull within a touchdown before the Sooners escaped with their first win in Lincoln since 1987.
Slipping
The Huskers, who lost 34-31 to Texas Tech here on Oct. 8, dropped consecutive home games for the first time since losing three in a row 37 years ago.
Oklahoma (5-3, 4-1 Big 12) won its third straight and extended its regular-season winning streak over North Division opponents to 12. The Sooners haven't lost to a North team since a 20-10 defeat at Nebraska in 2001.
Nebraska (5-3, 2-3) has now lost three of its last four after a 4-0 start.
For the first time in 40 Oklahoma-Nebraska games, neither team came in ranked. But that didn't diminish the drama as Nebraska tried to rally from a three-touchdown deficit in the third quarter.
Peterson's touchdown runs gave OU a 14-0 lead, and it was 21-3 after Chijioke Onyenegecha returned an interception 63 yards late in the half.
Garrett Hartley's 50-yard field goal pushed the lead to 24-3 early in the third quarter.
Finally moved
Then Nebraska's offense, which allowed nine sacks and was held to 16 yards rushing, finally started to move.
Zac Taylor finished a 16-play, 80-yard touchdown drive with a 3-yard pass to Terrence Nunn. After OU holder Cody Freeby mishandled a snap on a 52-yard field goal attempt, the Huskers were set up at the OU 48. Six plays later, Taylor threw a 25-yard TD pass to Nate Swift to pull Nebraska to 24-17.
The Sooners opened a two-touchdown lead again on Kejuan Jones' 17-yard run after Hartley ran 6 yards for a first down on a fake field goal.
But the Huskers came right back, scoring on Cory Ross' 18-yard I-back pass to Swift with 5:56 left.
Nebraska got the ball back with no timeouts and 2:37 left, but Taylor could generate nothing under heavy Oklahoma pressure, and the Sooners ran out the clock.
The passers
OU's Rhett Bomar completed 14 of 28 passes for 157 yards, with Malcolm Kelly catching eight for 86 yards.
Taylor was 25-of-45 with two interceptions, for 249 yards and two TDs.
Ross had 21 yards on 10 carries.
Nebraska, which opened the game working against a 26- mph wind gusting to 32, generated only 19 yards while going three plays and out on its first five possessions.
The Sooners didn't allow a first down until Taylor threw a 14-yard pass to Swift with 11:11 left in the second quarter.