No. 10 Baylor knows there’s no time to dwell on 1st loss

Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield led No. 12 Oklahoma to a 44-34 win at previously undefeated and No. 6 Baylor by throwing for 270 yards and three touchdowns and running for 76 yards and another score.

Lanning also completed 11 of 22 passes for 162 yards, including a 24-yarder to Allen Lazard for a touchdown in the first half, when Iowa State scored three touchdowns and kicked a field goal on its first four possessions. The latest resurrection at Iowa State was notable for players’ bemusement that anyone would expect a different outcome.

If the Sooners and Oklahoma State both win Saturday night, their Bedlam game on Thanksgiving weekend would be for the Big 12 title.

The fourth-ranked Cowboys hope that isn’t the case this time around, but they’d love to see their home dominance over the No. 10 Bears continue Saturday night in a game with major College Football Playoff implications. LSU’s loss at Arkansas shut the door on the possibility of the SEC putting two teams in the playoff, and with Stanford and Utah falling, the Pac-12 bowed out of the playoff picture entirely. However, quarterback Kyle Postma led the Cougars to a stunning comeback, putting up 21 consecutive points, the last on a 7-yard touchdown run from Postma with 1:27 remaining in the game that gave the Cougars a one-point lead. “We weren’t playing to the tempo that we wanted to early in the season, especially in that Texas game”.

He hadn’t given it a thought, he said. Stidham has five passing touchdowns in his last two games.

“It hasn’t set in”, Pinkel said. “Along with that, I think that his discipline to train the way he has and lighten up a little bit and gain power and gain speed to go with it, probably has something to do with it as well”. He was diagnosed with lymphoma this year. “Just a few things haven’t gone our way here and there and then we’ve made some mistakes and other teams have capitalized”. Let’s call them Plans A, B, C and D.

Pinkel’s resignation was a stunning conclusion to a week of furor on the Missouri campus. “They make big plays”.

Pinkel declined to discuss his health before today’s news conference, which will be open to the public. He did not address his prognosis or whether more treatments are planned.

“I will say this, I feel pretty good right now, and there are a lot of people who have cancer a lot worse than I have”, Pinkel said. “My prayers go out to them”. Oklahoma State is coming off a hard-fought victory in Ames, Iowa, by a score of 35-31.

Oklahoma’s Sterling Shepard is one of 10 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award, given to college football’s top receiver.

“We are going to get him to the game”, Rhoads said, “warm him up and have him prepared and how much he plays we’ll see come Saturday”. And was it a big one.

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are now the favorites, not Baylor or TCU, and the once-beaten Sooners actually have a better shot than the unbeaten Cowboys, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers.

Time will tell. Regardless of what happens Saturday, it is clear Big 12 teams still need losses by frontrunners ahead of them in Tuesday’s rankings to place a playoff team in the 2015 title mix.

The Cowboys climbed into the top four of the AP poll this week but seemed lucky to escape Iowa State with a win Saturday.

“We use the word opportunity”, coach Art Briles said, when asked about the challenge of playing the undefeated Cowboys after the tough home loss to the Sooners.