Oklahoma vs. Tennessee: Score, Highlights and Twitter Reaction

In a stunning comeback victory, the Oklahoma Sooners scored four touchdowns in the fourth quarter and two overtime periods to knock off the Tennessee Volunteers, 31-24, for a huge road win in the season's second week.

Sterling Shepard scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 18-yard pass from Baker Mayfield in the second overtime. Oklahoma's defense ended the game when Zack Sanchez intercepted a pass from Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs.

ESPN's Skip Bayless got up on his Tim Tebow horse to praise Mayfield's effort down the stretch Saturday:

The tone and style of this game shifted dramatically after Tennessee took a 17-0 lead. The Volunteers compiled 167 yards in the first 18 minutes and looked like they were going to cruise to an easy victory. After that, though, they picked up only 87 yards of offense.

Oklahoma stormed back in the fourth quarter, setting up a chance to tie the game in the final two minutes thanks in part to a controversial pass-interference call against Tennessee cornerback Malik Foreman, who shoved Oklahoma receiver Colton Jumper out of the end zone. 

However, Mayfield threw the ball well past the out-of-bounds line, and had Jumper been able to snag it out of the air, he wouldn't have been able to come down in bounds. 

Mayfield tossed his second touchdown pass of the game with 40 seconds left in regulation, a terrific fade to Shepard that evened the score at 17. 

After that touchdown pass, Lost Lettermen provided some insight into what Mayfield's mental state was like:

The pass also prompted an apt comparison by ESPN's Danny Kanell:

It's a fair assessment because the final stat line doesn't do justice to what Mayfield accomplished. He finished 19-of-39 with 187 passing yards, four total touchdowns (three passing) and two interceptions. All of his touchdowns came in the last nine minutes of regulation and overtime. 

But as ESPN's Dari Nowkhah noted, Mayfield's offensive line was getting him destroyed by a fast, powerful Tennessee defense:

Making the win more impressive for the Sooners, it came in spite of a dreadful performance for three quarters. They had three points going into the fourth quarter and could get nothing going. 

Fox Sports' Clay Travis questioned Tennessee's ability to finish late in the game:

Winning close games has been a problem for the Volunteers, which went 2-3 in games decided by 10 points or fewer last season and are off to a bad start in 2015.

Head coach Butch Jones has built a strong foundation, but there's an alarming trend developing when teams find ways to stay in games they shouldn't. There's no doubt that the Tennessee football program is headed in the right direction, highlighted by 247Sports' fourth-ranked recruiting class in 2015.

Speaking to Bleacher Report's Barrett Sallee about remaking the Volunteers, Jones admitted it's not a fancy or glamorous process:

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I was looking out my window my first year and watched people outside lay the bricks of the walkway. Every great structure or organization has a foundation, and people are the foundation. I was watching them lay the bricks, and the diligence that it took to lay the bricks, and if one brick was out of place or missing, they weren't going to have a solid foundation and it wouldn't look right.

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The problem is that Jones' foundation needs that finishing touch. Getting off to a fast start in the first half has usually resulted in wins for Jones during his Tennessee tenure, per Patrick Brown of the Free Times Press:

Yet when the offense forgets how to move the ball, opponents are eventually going to wear down the defense as Oklahoma did Saturday. Oklahoma picked on Foreman in the meltdown as he fell down while covering Shepard on the final touchdown catch.

The Sooners dominated the time of possession in the fourth quarter, as Brown noted:

Keeping its defense on the field for that long late in a game meant that Tennessee was flirting with disaster, which eventually came.

Dobbs was terrible, completing 13 of his 31 attempts for 125 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He had just 12 rushing yards on 14 carries.

Running back Jalen Hurd tried to carry the Volunteers on his back with 106 rushing yards and one touchdown on 24 carries. The rest of the team had 23 rushing yards on 21 carries. 

Oklahoma's offense didn't get anything going on the ground, either, with a total of 161 rushing yards on 48 carries.

Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops adjusted late in the game, rolling Mayfield out of the pocket to create time, which led to the Sooners' first touchdown: a Samaje Perine reception. 

The focus will be on Tennessee for not closing the game out, but this is a huge win for Oklahoma. The Sooners have fallen behind Baylor and TCU in Big 12 prominence and needed to prove they could hang with a quality SEC program.

Stoops' team passed its first major test of the season and will now be able to keep building confidence before having to deal with Baylor and TCU in November.