OU to test Tulsa’s no-huddle offense

? Tulsa’s no-huddle offense clicked to deliver a statement win over Brigham Young last weekend, but the fast-paced scheme will be put to the test Friday against Oklahoma.

“A lot of people think we tricked BYU, we didn’t trick BYU,” coach Todd Graham said Monday, two days after the Golden Hurricane (2-0) won a wild 55-47 game here. “The pace at which we do things is very important, it’s our philosophy of what we’re trying to accomplish.

“We’re trying to get the ball to our best people and we’ve got a system in place that we’ve spent some time installing,” he said.

In that system, brought from Arkansas by offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, quarterback Paul Smith passed for a career-best 454 yards Saturday and five touchdowns.

“It’s not about some magical scheme,” Graham said. “We have a really, really, really good quarterback that makes really good decisions and can really, really throw the ball well, and what you’ve seen is a dramatic improvement in the guys he’s throwing it to.”