Big 12 rankings: Sooners are No. 1

“There are no backups here”, Johnson said. “People ask me, and I don’t know that it even matters what I say, just from a standpoint of the people in that room on that committee know how I feel about my team”, Gundy said Monday. “He hasn’t had a lot”. Baylor moved him back to quarterback before the Oklahoma State game knowing Stidham was banged up.

Johnson, a sophomore, hadn’t played before Saturday. “I have to give credit to my teammates, they told me to stay ready and [believed in me]”. Stidham threw a 59-yard touchdown pass to Cannon to make it 14-0 with 11:56 left in the first quarter. Bob Stoops will be looking for a statement as Saturday’s game will be their last opportunity to impress CFP voters.

If you constantly play with fire, you’ll eventually get burned. Johnson found Jay Lee for a 39-yard touchdown and then topped that by hooking up with KD Cannon for a 71-yard score.

“My confidence went way up”, Johnson said. He completed 5 of 10 passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns, while adding 42 yards and a TD on the ground. Running back Devin Chafin ran in from the 1-yard line for a touchdown to put the Bears back in front 21-14.

Third-teamer Johnson spelled Stidham and helped lead the Bears to the win.

The Cowboys started 10-0 this season and 6-4 ATS but lost at home to Baylor last week 45-35. He’s just a great, great teammate. “You’d like to find that everywhere you look around, but it’s not always there”.

Briles is in his first full year as the Bears’ offensive coordinator after previously serving as receivers coach.

“Honestly, he’s not very good”, Briles said. “We battled back and got a couple of stops on defense, (but) couldn’t get anything going on offense”. He hobbled behind his giddy teammates up the concrete ramp that leads from the field to Baylor’s locker room. With a majority of the teams in the conference having a heavy second-half of the season schedule, the next few weeks will shape whether or not any of the team’s get into the College Football Playoffs. However, a loss to Baylor could knock them out as well. Peterson had an impressive game last season against 2015 top 10 pick Kevin White from West Virginia as he held him to only 3 catches for 27 yards. “Everything he did was not surprising to us”.

Of course, a win not only gives OSU a chance to win the Big 12, it prevents Oklahoma from clinching the title, as well as a possible spot in the Playoff. It didn’t work out, but we shouldn’t be mad about it. “Really, we wanted to do a good job of finishing this year strong, which we’ve done up until this point”. Baylor is now No. 10 in the CFP rankings, which are to be updated on Tuesday.

It was big enough on its own.

Ohio State fell from No. 2 to No. 8 after MI State kicker Michael Geiger booted a game-winning field goal in the final seconds to snap the Buckeyes’ 23-game winning streak.

Baylor, meanwhile, seems too exhausted with juggling injuries to campaign.

Johnson said he’s comfortable in his new role and views this week as “an opportunity to get more in-sync” with the Bears’ starting receivers.

“This is as meaningful a road win as we’ve had with the situation we’re in right now”, Briles said.

The Big 12 football race has crystalized.