Red-hot Queensland's long-awaited Super 14 resurgence hit top gear on Sunday night with a record 50-10 smashing of the Western Force.

Australia's form halves pairing of Will Genia and Quade Cooper fed off the powerful performance of their pack to guide the Reds to their biggest victory in 15 seasons of Super rugby.

A Suncorp Stadium crowd of 20,016 lapped up every moment of the one-sided affair, especially the first half as playmaker Cooper had the ball on a string.

Queensland cut loose to run in seven tries to one against the hapless and injury-riddled Force who are now four matches without a win.

The perennial battlers, who last enjoyed a finals finish in 2001, are now one point outside the top four after a 3-2 start under new coach Ewen McKenzie.

"I'm happy, the start's been good," McKenzie deadpanned. "No one except maybe the group itself predicted where we would be right now.

"We've got a great opportunity to keep going. We're not fighting for credibility at the end of the season, we've got a great opportunity to push forward."

Queensland's biggest win, eclipsing the 37-point margins registered in beating the Blues (50-13) in 1996 and the Sharks (40-3) in 1997, was the first time they have scored back-to-back victories in four years.

Showing how bad things have been in the past decade, their round five rise to sixth on the table is their best start to a season since 1999.

"The important thing today is coming off the Chiefs (23-18 upset) we managed to turn some of the public opinion, it would have been disappointing if we hadn't got the result and then disappeared with the bye week and the three games away (in South Africa) and left the fans disappointed," McKenzie said.

Queensland's heroes gained a rare standing ovation as they ran off at halftime leading 36-3.

They crossed for five tries, including double to centres Anthony Faingaa and Digby Ioane, three of which were superbly laid on by Cooper who chipped, passed and ran with precision.

It was a half of rugby not seen from Queensland since the side included names such as Eales, Horan, Little, Wilson, Kefu, Latham and Tune.

The Force lineout disintegrated, losing eight of their nine throws in the first half, but even when rookie WA-product Ryan Tyrell was replaced by Pek Cowan at hooker they still failed.

The visitors did their best to turn things around as the rain came down in the second half but a well-worked blind-side try to winger Nick Cummins for a 36-10 deficit was as close as they got.

Rangy flanker Scott Higginbotham crossed for a second half double, including a 35m intercept try, palming Force skipper Nathan Sharpe off on the way, to end a nightmare match for Force fullback Dane Haylett-Petty who threw the miscued pass.

Kiwi recruit David Hill struggled to make any sort of impact at five-eighth and finished his debut early with a yellow-carded in the 70th minute.

The Force now have a daunting assignment ahead of them against NSW on Saturday night back at home.

"Six day turnaround for us and this game can't come soon enough for us," Sharpe said.

"There's no doubt everyone's shitty at themselves, and that's a good thing after a performance like that so we'll regroup and get stuck in again."

The only downside for the Reds was a medial ligament knee injury to workhorse flanker Daniel Braid but McKenzie was hopeful he could return to start the three-match tour of South Africa.

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