Tanner Roof’s offenses are full of things meant to play with the mind.

Whether it’s a ton of different formations, abundant pre-snap motion or other forms of trickery, there’s a good chance Oklahoma Christian School is going to deploy it.

But Reagan Roof also knew his younger brother had a couple of core tricks he liked to use in a game.

He preached them to his Kingfisher defensive players last week and then, on the Saints’ first offensive drive last Friday night, they tried one.

Quarterback Warner Nield barked a hard count behind center and then relaxed as he looked to his sideline, seemingly to get the offensive play from his coach.

But what he was truly waiting for was a surprise snap, meant to catch the KHS defense off guard.

Nield handled the snap and sent a long pass down the sideline to a receiver running a fly route.

Only that receiver had Kingfisher’s Carter Stephenson running with him stride-for-stride.

Stephenson - and much of the rest of the Jacket defense - was ready for the play.

The senior picked off the pass and the first of several Saints threats was extinguished.

In fact, almost all of OCS’s offensive ploys were handled as the Jackets dominated the much-anticipated “Brother Bowl” 49-14.

Kingfisher is now 5-0 on the season and improved to 2-0 in District 3A-1.

The Jackets did it by holding an offense that averaged more than 50 points a game without a touchdown and by racking up nearly 600 yards of its own.

“I’m just glad it’s over with,” Reagan Roof said. “I’m really happy we got the win, but like I said last week, I hate that it was at his expense.”

The first-ever showdown between the brothers as head coaches garnered much media attention throughout the week. Both brothers - and even Reagan’s son, sophomore quarterback River Roof - took part in multiple media interviews during the week.

“It probably turned out to be a bigger deal than even I thought it would be,” said Kingfisher’s Roof. “That part of it? It was fun.”

The game itself proved fun for the elder Roof as well.

On the opening play of the game, it felt as if Stephenson set the physical tone.

He made a 25-yard return and saw two Saints bounce off of him as he went out of bounds.

Two plays into the game, Drew Snider broke loose for a 54-yard touchdown run.

The route was on, but it just didn’t fully take form until the third quarter.

The Jackets took a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter on a Brett Calamateo 1-yard run.

That capped a 32-yard drive after the Saints’ punter shanked a kick off the side of his foot.

The lead was eventually chopped in half when midway through the second quarter, a Kingfisher drive stalled and the Saints blocked Calamateo’s punt.

Van Gulledge scooped it up and returned it 32 yards for a touchdown.

It took two more possessions, but the Jackets did garner some momentum going into the half.

With 25 seconds left, Roof the quarterback hit Collin Farrar down the seam for a 31-yard touchdown.

The Jackets then struck on their first possession of the second half when Calamateo and Stephenson connected for a 57-yard touchdown.

That put KHS up 28-7, but they weren’t fully in control yet.

That’s because Lex Ripley took the ensuing kickoff 77 yards for a score, keeping the Saints within striking distance.

But they never would strike.

Kingfisher scored twice more before the end of the quarter and again in the fourth to complete the dominant showing.

KHS quickly drove 80 yards on its next drive with a bulk of it coming on a 65yard pass from Calamateo to Stephenson.

That helped set up Snider’s 3-yard touchdown run.

The next drive saw Calamateo find Steel Snodgrass for a 43-yard pass on a 3rd-and-19 play to keep it moving. Calamateo finished it off with a 1-yard score.

Up just 28-14 at one point in the third, the Jackets saw it swell to 42-14 by the end of the quarter.

Calamateo did his part by going 6 of 9 through the air for 217 yards and a TD.

Roof was 5 of 10 for 100 yards.

The Jackets also had 271 rushing yards and averaged 5.6 yards per attempt.

Snider broke the century mark for the third time this season as he finished with 142 yards on 20 attempts.

Calamateo added another 82 yards on 15 carries.

The Jackets also saw freshman Dexton Townsend score his first career TD, a 9-yarder in the fourth quarter.

“We thought we could run it on them,” Roof said. “We wanted to do that to keep the ball out of their hands. And we thought they had a few holes in the secondary where we could throw it.”

Still - even Roof was surprised by the overall output.

“I didn’t expect to be able to put up almost 600 yards of total offense,” he said. “Everything we put in that week, it was just one of those nights when almost all of them hit.”

Stephenson’s three catches covered 128 yards while Farrar also had three receptions for 77 yards.

But it was the defense that stole the show.

Stephenson got it going early with his pick.

“I’d warned them of two or three different things that are kind of staples in his bag of tricks,” Roof said. “We saw a couple of them and were able to defend them because the guys recognized them.

“That was one of them.” Because of the Saints’ multiple formations and the plethora of movement, Jacket coaches kept lecturing throughout the week about being in the right place.

“We had to be focused on all those formations and routes we’d see,” Roof said. “And we absolutely had to be disciplined to do our job and be where we were supposed to be.”

In other words? “Don’t fall for all the eye candy,” he said.

What would help, Roof said, was the ability to stop the run with only a threeman front, which would allow for an extra man in the secondary.

“That was a key going in,” he said. “And we ended up doing a really good job of it.”

OCS had minus-6 net rushing yards on the night.

The Jackets sacked Nield four times and had seven total tackles for loss.

Brayson Pinkston was in on 2 ½ of those sacks and had five total tackles.

Snider and Jayzen Surveyor led the team with six tackles apiece.

Nield threw for 145 yards, but got 58 of them on a single play in the fourth quarter.

That appeared destined for a touchdown, but Chase Boarts ran down Ripley before he could score.

The Jacket defense then forced a turnover on downs.

Now it’s on to the next contest for the Jackets and while the fanfare surrounding the game will die down this week, the competition level will not as KHS makes the trip south to take on Plainview.

The Indians are 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the district.

They were downed 5726 at Mount St. Mary last week. The Rockets are the only team other than KHS without a loss in district games after just two weeks.

Plainview has wins over Lone Grove, Davis and Purcell.

The other loss was to an unbeaten Holdenville.

Roof said the two hiccups on the record don’t take away from the quality of foe.

“They’ll be the best team we’ve played so far,” he said.