NORMAN (AP) — For a kid who grew up practically in the shadows of Owen Field, Ryan Broyles’ chance to play for Oklahoma seemed to be a long time coming.

It turned out to be well worth the wait.

Broyles set an Oklahoma freshman record with 141 receiving yards, Jermaine Gresham caught two of Sam Bradford’s five touchdown passes and the fourth-ranked Sooners extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 20 games with a 52-26 victory against Cincinnati on Saturday.

Broyles went to Norman High School but kept flip-flopping between whether to play for the Sooners or their in-state rival, Oklahoma State. His decision didn’t come until signing day, and even then he hadn’t cleared the final roadblock to play in crimson and cream.

He was arrested for stealing gas from a Norman gas station the day before Oklahoma’s season opener last year, eventually pleading no contest, and took a redshirt behind a loaded group of receivers.

Then his debut was delayed another week when he was suspended for last week’s season opener against Chattanooga.

“Just growing up in Norman and seeing how big everything is around here, and now finally getting a chance to play, it’s a great feeling,” Broyles said.

Broyles had a 27-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter and extended a key second-half drive with a leaping 43-yard catch to allow the Sooners (2-0) to start pulling away with 24 consecutive points. His receiving total was the most by any Sooners player in his debut and surpassed Tinker Owens’ record of 132 receiving yards by a freshman.

“I just don’t let it get to my head really. This is the first game I’ve been out there, so I think I have a lot to prove,” Broyles said.

Oklahoma’s home winning streak, which started after TCU snapped the Sooners’ 19-game stretch in the 2005 opener, is the third-longest in school history and the first that long since a 20-game stretch that lasted from 1976 to 1980.

Bradford overcame only the second multiple-interception game of his career to throw for a career-best 395 yards and five touchdowns, the third time he’s reached that mark and also tying the school record held by 2003 Heisman Trophy winner Jason White and 2000 Heisman runner-up Josh Heupel.

He was glad to have Broyles on the field on a crucial third-and-9 play with the Sooners leading only 28-20 in the third quarter. Bradford lofted a lob deep down the right sideline, and Broyles jumped to take it away from two defenders for a 43-yard catch.

“I want to thank him for that, for bailing me out, because if that was incomplete I was going to get an earful coming to the sideline,” said Bradford, whose only other two-interception game was in last season’s upset loss at Colorado. “That’s just a great play.”

Four plays later, Bradford extended the drive again with a successful sneak on fourth-and-inches, and DeMarco Murray finished the drive by going untouched up the middle for an 11-yard TD run.

Then things started falling apart for Cincinnati (1-1), which was bidding for its first win against a top five opponent.