Oklahoma Sooners’ Baker Mayfield Named Big 12 Football Offensive Player Of The

OKLAHOMA STATE 35, IOWA STATE 31 The backup J. W. Walsh, usually the Cowboys’ running quarterback, threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Carr with 3 minutes 6 seconds left, allowing No. 5 Oklahoma State (10-0, 7-0 Big 12) to edge host Iowa State (3-7, 2-5).

Either can clinch the Big 12 title by winning their last two regular season games.

To their credit, though, the Cowboys keep finding a way, winning four conference games by a touchdown or less, including Saturday’s 35-31 decision at Iowa State.

Also working in Oklahoma’s favor is that unlike its fellow Big 12 contenders, the Sooners went on the road and notched a nice out-of-conference victory at Tennessee, now 6-4.

The Baylor Bears suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of the Oklahoma Sooners in a game that felt lethargic all night.

Clemson, Ohio State and Alabama remained in the top three spots and in that order. “Ever since then, we’ve just been grinding it out”. It would be Oklahoma’s first since sharing a title with Kansas State in 2012, and end its longest league championship drought in coach Bob Stoops’ 17 seasons.

Fans protecting themselves from the rain watch as Oklahoma fullback Dimitri Flowers (36) catches a pass for a touchdown in front of Baylor linebacker Taylor Young (1) in the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Waco, Texas.

WACO, Texas-Eric Striker paused for a moment Saturday night.

Big 12 Special Teams Player of the WeekMorgan Burns, K-State, KR, Sr, Wichita, Kan.

Though TCU hasn’t confirmed the exact severity of the injury, head coach Gary Patterson is hopeful quarterback Trevone Boykin will be able to play against the Sooners after leaving Saturday’s game against Kansas with an apparent ankle injury.

Those Big 12 developments have to help Notre Dame. A new tiebreaker procedure was put in place after Baylor and TCU were declared co-champs last season – and both one-loss teams got left out of the playoff. After leading the Sooners to the big win over Baylor, he ranks second in the country in passing efficiency (183.9), is second in passing yards per attempt (10.0), third in completion percentage (70.2) and fifth in passing touchdowns (31). “That was really the first thing that coach Stoops told us in the locker room after the Texas game”, Oklahoma junior quarterback Baker Mayfield said.

On the final play of the third quarter, Mixon took a handoff and ran to his right.

NAVY 55, S.M.U. 14 Keenan Reynolds broke the N.C.A.A. record for career rushing touchdowns, increasing his total to 81 with four scores, as No. 22 Navy (8-1, 6-0 American Athletic) routed Southern Methodist (1-9, 0-6) in Annapolis, Md.

Mayfield made up for his pick by guiding Oklahoma on a 71-yard touchdown drive at the end of the second quarter. A 12-0 Oklahoma State has a solid chance of jumping them, and a strong 11-1 Oklahoma has somewhat of a chance.

“And whatever comes after that we’ll focus on that”. Mayfield also ran for another score.

In a rarity, the Big 12 defensive player award went to a guy on a losing team. “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”. And No. 24 Washington State (7-3) is in for the first since October 29, 2006. He did not mention that an offensive line that was mostly new this season has jelled or that defenders such as senior end Charles Tapper (six sacks in Oklahoma’s past three games) have hit their stride, but that overall improvement was heavily implied.

Temple lost 44-23 at South Florida. Georgia has won eight of 10 over Auburn – the best 10-game stretch in the series by either team since 1944-53 – and the Bulldogs lead the series for the first time since 1986.

No. 24 Houston overcame the loss of starting quarterback Greg Ward Jr. and a 34-14 fourth-quarter deficit to stun 21st-ranked Memphis in Houston.