NORMAN – No. 4/6 Oklahoma could make a case that they have the best quarterback/receiver corps combination in the nation.

After trouncing Texas Tech 55-16 Saturday in Norman, ESPN.com has OU’s Jalen Hurts as the top rated quarterback in the nation. Sooner wide receiver Charleston Rambo is leading the nation in yardage per catch, averaging 28.7 yards (373 total yards this season) and CeeDee Lamb is hot on his trail at No. 6 nation, averaging 25.9 yards per catch (414 yards this season).

(Alabama could make a case for the best tandem, too. Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is No. 3 in the ESPN ranking while receiver DaVonta Smith is fifth in the nation in total receiving yards. Smith has 537 receiving yards).

Against the Red Raiders, Hurts has a passing efficiency rating of 249. It’s the fourth time in four games that his rating has been higher than 245. Since 1996, no NCCA Division 1 player has had that high of a rating more than twice in one season.

“He is seeing the field pretty well,” OU coach Lincoln Riley said of Hurts, a graduate transfer from Alabama. “He is understanding how we want to attack people. And he has been able to process it well early. He is a little more confident today and I think a little bit more steady. Then made a couple of the off strip plays like he has been able to do.”

“The man playing with a chip on his shoulder- oh my fault, a boulder,” Lamb said. “He’s doing a great job doing everything that he wanted to do and that he feel like he needs to do. Just proving a point.”

Hurts completed 17 of 24 pass attempts for a career-high 415 yards and three scores. He had his first interception of the season, but the ball hit the receiver in the hands and bounced up for the pick. Hurts ran for 70 yards against Tech.

“Like I say all the time, it comes down to execution,” Hurts said. “Today, when we executed well, good things happened. I mean, we had errors or bad communication wherever it was, when it didn’t throw the way it was supposed to, it didn’t. I think we’ve got to realize that every wound is self-inflicted. That’s something that we control.”

In four games, Hurts has 12 passing touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns.

“I think he’s really improved as a passer,” Texas Tech coach Matt Wells said of Hurts. “He’s patient. Seems like he’s going through his progressions. Not afraid to dump it down. Not afraid to throw it away. Seems to have a really good sense of the pocket when it’s collapsing. Then he’s athletic, to really make you pay if you’re not rushing the upfield shoulder. That happened to us at least twice that I can remember, when we’re not rushing the upfield shoulder and the guy can make you pay coming out of the pocket. He has kind of a keen sense of awareness in the pocket.”

For the first time in decades, two OU receivers gained over 100 yards in a game. Rambo had 122 yards in the first quarter alone. His 74-yard touchdown catch was the longest pass play of the year for Oklahoma.

Lamb added a career-high 185 yards in receptions with three TDs on seven catches. He broke loose from a defender and scored on a 71-yard catch in the second quarter.

“They are just good receivers and anybody in the Big 12 is hard to cover and makes plays,” Red Raider defensive back Doug Coleman said of Lamb and Rambo.

Riley said Lamb was effective in not only catching the ball but breaking loose from tackles.

“Honestly it was not like he was just running wide open,” Riley said of Lamb. “He beat a guy on a fade ball down there in the end zone to get some separation but the other ones he got open and we made some really nice throws and he made competitive catches and got out of tackles.

“Guys like CeeDee, people always say, ‘well if you get him one on one, you just throw it up and he will catch it’. But there is also the matter of getting them on the ground. With the way that we can run the ball, we are usually able to get those guys in one-on-one situations so it is not always looking for the catch. Our guys know, ‘if I can make one guy miss or one guy break a tackle, I may score’ and he was a great example of that. You could tell he caught those two balls today expecting to score.”

Lamb worked on breaking tackles after a catch.

“Most definitely,” Lamb said “I feel like last year, I think it was my first touchdown, I feel like I would’ve got tackled simply because he went for my legs. Just building off last year, like I said, just getting in the weight room, it really helped my confidence a lot. Experience, just trusting myself, trusting my talent, trusting my ability. Then again, it’s also coach Wylie, just getting me stronger.”

The OU/Kansas game kicks off at 11 a.m. and will be televised on ABC. The game starts not too much later than the annual Late Night in Phog celebration in the Allen Fieldhouse by the Jayhawk basketball team.

Kansas beat Indiana State (24-17) and Boston College (48-24) but was upset by Coastal Carolina (7-12). They lost their Big 12 opener last Saturday to TCU, 14-51.

Kansas coach Les Miles, who was fired in 2016 even though he had won a national championship at LSU (20070, was a former head coach at Oklahoma State (where he was 28-21).