Oklahoma Bashes Oklahoma State 58-23 In Bedlam

The college football playoff committee has only eight days remaining before naming their top four teams in 2015, but Oklahoma made that decision significantly easier after their performance Saturday night.

No. 4 Oklahoma, in the clubhouse at 11-1 with the outright Big 12 title secured thanks to a convincing win at Oklahoma State in the Bedlam showdown, appears to have its playoff position locked up as well. “I knew we had some running backs”, Riley said. “I’m happy we came out with the win”. It doesn’t matter – the Big 12 will get its share of good bowl matchups.

Kansas State (5-6, 2-6 Big 12) can get its sixth win for bowl eligibility in the regular-season finale at home against West Virginia (7-4, 4-4).

Oklahoma has won seven straight since its hard-to-explain loss to Texas in Dallas, averaging 52 points. The Buckeyes can only watch and hope next week as their loss to Michigan State kept them out of the Big Ten title game.

Baylor’s bid for a third consecutive Big 12 title is over.

Mayfield may not be the favorite to win the award, but he should at least get invited to NY.

Mayfield showed no effects from a concussion he suffered a week earlier, throwing for 180 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 77 yards and a touchdown as Oklahoma blew out No. 11 Oklahoma State 58-23 in front of 58,231 at Boone Pickens Stadium. Seemingly every pass he caught was on a slant route, including his four-yard catch to respond to Oklahoma State’s getting on the board first with a field goal.

Bob Stoops didn’t have to say a word.

Joe Mixon ran for 136 yards and two touchdowns and Samaje Perine had 131 yards and two scores.

Like its loss to Baylor, Oklahoma State (10-2, 7-2) struggled to stop and to establish the run.

The Cowboys were without starting quarterback Mason Rudolph so J.W. Walsh started in his place as the Sooners once again played a tough opponent without their starting quarterback after beating Baylor, TCU with their backups.

Broadcast reports indicated that Rudolph had a broken bone in his foot. There were two one-play touchdown drives in the first quarter and two 10-play drives in the second half.

The major problem was the defense, not anything Walsh and company did. If Oklahoma advances to the playoff, then the Big 12 would use its new tiebreaker rules to determine the Sugar Bowl representative. Oklahoma is now 13-1 (.928) all-time against the Cowboys when both teams are ranked (7-1 under Stoops).

Oklahoma can be this year’s Ohio State. “Oklahoma has performed…at a high level since (the Texas loss), so they’ve overcome that loss with their play on the field and the success they’ve had and the wins they’ve accumulated”.