Oklahoma Sooners QB Baker Mayfield Passes Concussion Tests

But a furious rally by the Horned Frogs fell just short.

“I just had a hard decision between staying on my receiver and coming to get the quarterback”, Parker said. Oklahoma’s front line responded by limiting the Horned Frogs to 161 yards on 36 carries.

Without Trevone Boykin or Josh Doctson, you knew going into this contest that TCU would try to run the ball. The Spartans only need to win Saturday to lock up the Big Ten East and play in the conference title game. The walk-on has completed nearly 70 percent of his passes, anc thrown for 33 touchdowns against only five interceptions. That would be the only lead the Frogs had all night, as the Sooners would score 23 unanswered in the half, taking a 23-7 lead over TCU into halftime.

Both teams had to use multiple quarterbacks-Baker Mayfield left with concussion concerns, while Foster Sawyer struggled and was benched-and the Sooners had the game seemingly locked up early in the fourth quarter.

TOP PLAY: Oklahoma sophomore running back Samaje Perine left the game early in the third quarter hobbling and favoring his left leg. But after getting his left ankle heavily taped, he returned – and then iced the victory with a 72-yard run. Knight wasn’t any better, going 5-of-16 passing for 76 yards. Shell ran for touchdowns from eight and 26 yards out in the first quarter, and Skyler Howard ran for a nine-yard touchdown and threw a two-yard touchdown pass to Cody Clay. But you have to hand it to the senior QB, who came in facing a seemingly insurmountable deficit against one of the best, if not the best, defenses in the Big XII and made smart plays to move his team down the field. Rather than tying it up at 30 apiece with an extra point however, the Frogs went for two and failed to convert, sealing the win for the Sooners. And that the game – college football, everybody – morphed from uneasy to uh-oh on a couple of big plays. He said he hasn’t had a headache since Saturday and that he is not anxious about any repeat occurrences. Patterson’s decision to go for two at the end was debatable – it certainly appeared TCU had Oklahoma on the ropes, and would have taken momentum into overtime – but understandable.

“There’s certainly room for optimism, but we do have a protocol we have to go through – some serial testing and progressions of activity, and we’re in the midst of that now”, Anderson said. “There is not one person on our sideline who wanted to go for one”.

“It’s what we do – we fight”, Green said. “We came here to win”. “It killed me”, he said. He said he also had a concussion in high school five years ago, but “I had all the symptoms then, dizzy and all the vision stuff, but this one wasn’t like that”.