By Bruce Campbell, Staff Writer

NORMAN — Sam Bradford won’t go down as a one-game wonder.

If there were any questions Bradford’s 21-of-23 passing performance for 363 yards and three touchdowns against North Texas last Saturday was a fluke, they were dissolved Saturday in Oklahoma’s 51-13 rout of Miami.

The redshirt freshman hit 19-of-25 passes for 205 yards and five touchdowns. The 51 points were the most allowed by the Miami defense since a 66-13 loss at Syracuse Nov. 28, 1998.

The performance was no surprise to receiver Malcolm Kelly, who caught four passes for 102 yards and three touchdowns.

“He’s not going to beat himself,’’ Kelly said. “He throws a real catchable ball. We have been working with him a lot. If he puts it somewhere within our reach, nine times out of 10 our receivers are going to catch the ball.’’

Kelly never had any doubts about Bradford’s potential.

“We thought we were a championship caliber club from Day 1,’’ Kelly said.

Miami coach Randy Shannon created some controversy Monday when he said much of Bradford’s yardage against North Texas came on short passes.

“I didn’t hear about that,’’ Kelly said. “All I can say is they can say whatever they want to say. We’re not going to talk during the week.

“We try to stay away from that as much as we can. Talking means nothing if we don’t do it on the field. Coach (Bob) Stoops makes sure we keep our mouths shut and let our playing do our talking.’’

Stoops said Bradford’s performance was a team effort.

“The offensive line in front of him was also great,’’ he said. “They allowed him the time to find the open guys and hit them.’’

Miami appeared to be making a game out of it when the Hurricanes cut the OU lead to 21-13 after a 45-yard field goal by Francesco Zamponga with 10:37 left in the third period. Miami would not have a first down the rest of the game.

The Sooners answered with 30 points on five straight scoring drives.

On OU’s first touchdown drive, seven different players touched the ball on the first eight plays. Stoops said that wasn’t scripted.

Shannon was frustrated after the game. He said for Miami to win, it had to prevent the big plays and keep the crowd out of the game.

That strategy ran into problems when OU took momentum early. The Hurricanes couldn’t keep up the momentum after cutting the lead to 21-13.

Shannon said OU didn’t do anything surprising.

“No, that’s the thing that’s upsetting,’’ Shannon said.

It was the first time the two teams played since the Hurricanes beat OU 20-14 for the national championship in the 1988 Orange Bowl.

Over a three-year period from 1985-87, OU was 33-0 against outside opponents and 0-3 against Miami.

Stoops said the only time the rivalry was mentioned was Monday.

The feeling of older OU fans wanting revenge wasn’t shared by the current Sooners.

“The rest of the week those guys were rolling their eyes because most of them weren’t even born yet,’’ Stoops said.

“That didn’t matter. It might make a good story, but that was a long time ago.’’