Defending BCS champion Alabama ended its season with consecutive lo ses, in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday.Alabama entered the game as a 16.5-point favorite.The Sooners scored three consecutive touchdowns in the second quarter of Thursday's Sugar Bowl Carson Wentz Jersey to take a 31-17 halftime lead. They held off the Tide in the second half, sealing the victory when Geneo Gri som returned a fumble for a touchdown.MORE: Alabama was knocked out of a po sible BCS title shot return in its final regular-season game, the now-legendary Iron Bowl that saw Auburn's Chris Davis return a mi sed field goal attempt for a game-winning touchdown.Alabama took an early lead on T.J. Yeldon's one-yard run and responded to an Oklahoma TD with the field goal. DeAndrew White's 67-yard TD reception from AJ McCarron made it 17-14 for the Tide's last lead of the half.Jalen Saunders had touchdown catches of 8 and 43 yards from Trevor Knight, and Sterling Shepard scored on a 13-yard run to provide the 31-17 halftime score.Alabama provided opportunities on turnovers, and Oklahoma took advantage. The Sooners followed three Tide giveaways with touchdowns in building their early lead.MORE: | | | Friday: Cotton Bowl, Wendell Smallwood Jersey | Orange Bowl, | Those touchdowns: Tide quarterback AJ McCarron threw an interception, and Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight hits receiver wide Lacoltan Bester on the Sooners' first play for a 45-yard pa s play. Yeldon fumbled inside the Sooner 10-yard line, and Knight threw a deep pa s to Jalen Saunders along the right sideline for the score. Zack Sanchez picks off a McCarron pa s, setting up Shepard's 13-yard TD on the Sooners' first play.Alabama was on the cusp of punching its SEC championship game ticket before giving up 13 points in the final 32 seconds and losing 34-28 at Auburn on Nov. 30 on Davis' 100-yard return of Adam Griffith's mi sed 57-yard field goal attempt.The game was the college finale for McCarron, who Philadelphia Eagles Jersey threw for 20 touchdowns and just two interceptions after September in winning the Maxwell Award and finishing as the Heisman Trophy runner-up."I think AJ McCarron is the best player in the country, I really do," Sooners coach Bob Stoops said Dec. 8. "If I had a vote, that's who I'd vote for. On and on, just fundamental, sound, great players, force great schemes. ... I appreciate good football, and (the Crimson Tide) play it, and they play it the right way."Knight pa sed for 348 yards and four touchdowns. His completion percentage entering the Corey Clement Jersey game was 52.2. He had completed 47 pa ses all season, and had 32 against Alabama to set a Sugar Bowl record.The victory was a sweet one for Mike Quick Jersey Stoops, who last offseason called talk about the Southeastern Conference being the best league in college football "propaganda."His team vanquished an Alabama squad that had been ranked No. 1 much of the past three seasons, winning the previous two national titles.McCarron pa sed for 387 yards and two TDs, but his two interceptions set up Oklahoma TDs, and his fumble, returned by Gri som for a touchdown in the final minute, sealed 'Bama's first two-game skid since its Sugar Bowl lo s to Utah in January 2009.The Sugar Bowl's 80th edition marked the first in which both quarterbacks pa sed for 300-plus yards.Both schools finished 11-2.CONTRIBUTING: A sociated Pre s