NORMAN, Okla. — Iowa State was shut out by No. 6 Oklahoma 52-0 on Saturday night at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

With the loss, Iowa State falls to 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in the Big 12. The Sooners stayed undefeated, improving to 6-0, 2-0 in conference.

The Cyclones couldn’t get anything going offensively, and at the same time could not stop the Sooners defensively at any point in the game.

ISU coach Paul Rhoads gave credit to the Sooners and their ability to make the right plays when they needed to.

“They’re great players,” Rhoads said. “They played fast, they executed well, maintained blocks. You didn’t see our guys getting off blocks and making plays. Much better execution by their football team.”

Oklahoma redshirt sophomore quarterback Landry Jones gashed the ISU defense for 334 yards and three touchdowns on 30-of-34 passing with no interceptions.

Most of Jones’ yards went to junior wide receiver Ryan Broyles, who finished the game with 182 yards on 15 catches and a touchdown. Broyles had 165 yards at halftime.

“Sometimes it was like a turtle guarding a rabbit,” said ISU junior defensive back Ter’Ran Benton. “The next thing you know he was open. He has good hands and he caught everything that was thrown to him.”

The Cyclones gave up 672 yards of total offense to the Sooners, who gained 325 on the ground in addition to Jones’ 334.

Benton said the tempo of the Oklahoma offense, combined with its physicality, overwhelmed the defense at times.

“It’s not like we couldn’t keep up with them,” Benton said. “What makes them really fast is that they’re physical with their speed. We practiced the tempo, but it was totally different when we got out there.”

Oklahoma stifled Iowa State’s running game all night, and the Cyclones were only able to gain 1.8 yards per carry on average for a total of 59 rushing yards on the game.

Senior running back Alexander Robinson led Iowa State with 39 yards on seven carries, followed by quarterbacks Austen Arnaud with 16 yards and Jerome Tiller with 5 yards on the ground.

Arnaud started the game for the Cyclones, but was pulled from the game in the second half in favor of Tiller, who went 3-of-9 passing for 22 yards and was sacked three times.

Arnaud went 12-of-18 for 102 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions and was sacked once.

Rhoads said he was planning to play Tiller going into the game.

“We would have played Jerome tonight regardless, and at that particular time, it was time to make a change and see what he could do with that football team,” Rhoads said.

Up next for Iowa State is a trip next week to Austin to face the Texas Longhorns, who took down No. 5 Nebraska on Saturday. Running back Jeff Woody said the team knows what it has to do going ahead.

“We get back to work,” Woody said. “We didn’t have the best week of practice. It’s something we have to change going into this week against Texas.”