Game grades from the Sooners win over Oklahoma State

We don’t need anyone to tell us that it’s a game we have to play our hearts out in. “No one knows they’re going to win it in January or at the start of September, but I knew we had a good football team – better than what we thought”. “I don’t see how they could leave us out”.

J.W. Walsh passed for 325 yards and two scores, and James Washington caught seven passes for 169 yards for the Cowboys (10-2, 7-2, No. 11 CFP).

“You just figure if you’re third and you go to a championship game away from home to the No. 9 team in the country and win by 30-some points, whatever it was, you would only move up, possibly, but you sure wouldn’t move back”.

Mayfield was knocked out of the previous game because of a concussion, but he was fearless against the Cowboys, rushing for 77 yards and a touchdown. A top-10 matchup, this game had a lot riding on it, especially for the Sooners who could clinch a playoff berth with the win on top of the Big 12 title.

“He can only play one way”, Stoops said. “I feel like there was just a whole mentality switch”, said Sterling Shepard. Miketavius Jones made a nice effort to keep Ross out of the end zone on his big return, but that’s the only nice thing we can say about that play. “I lose track of how many touchdowns he accounted for tonight, but he was special again tonight”. Oklahoma also broke up seven more passes. Rudolph entered the game for one possession in the second quarter, and he threw three incomplete passes, including an interception that Jordan Thomas returned 32 yards for a touchdown.

“Everybody that’s played them has probably had their highest missed tackle total out of everybody they played”, Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer said. Campbell figures to be in the running for several of them.

The Wildcats are also a potential bowl team with a losing record, though the chances for Texas (4-7, 3-5) doing the same now seem unlikely even with an upset victory at No. 12 Baylor (9-2, 6-2). With three wins over current top 20 teams, and five wins against teams that were ranked at the time of the game, Oklahoma has bragging rights no other playoff contender does.

That’s quite the comparison for Oklahoma to hang its hat on, and it’s one the Sooners made themselves.

The Sooners rushed for 344 yards in winning its first outright Big 12 championship since 2010.

Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon (25) leaves behind Oklahoma State’s Tre Flowers (31) and Seth Jacobs (10) as Mixon scores a touchdown in the second quarter during the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015. Quarterback Baker Mayfield threw for a modest 211 yards and ran for minus-five yards on 18 carries (including sacks).

He’s the fourth running back under Stoops to surpass 3,000 career yards and the 10th in program history.

Snyder said if the Wildcats are in position for a bowl bid, whether 6-6 or 5-7, they would take the same approach as always, with the players getting an opportunity to help decide what to do. We controlled the run.