Expect Sooners to jump at least four teams in Tuesday’s playoff rankings

The Oklahoma Sooners’ 44-34 win at Baylor earned them AutoNation National Team of the Week honors for the week of November 14.

“You go into the No. 6 team and into their backyard on a night like tonight and play this way, we’re one of those teams that has a chance”, Stoops said.

It feels more like a year ago at this point… but that’s part of the picture, you see: Bob Stoops has once again enabled a humiliating loss to Texas to become both an aberrational event and a positive turning point for his team.

Baker Mayfield completed 24 of 34 passes for 270 yards and three touchdowns, and ran for another 76 yards and a score to lead the way for Oklahoma (9-1) in the road win.

Oklahoma moved to 9-1 on the year and crashed the College Football Playoff discussion with a team just outside of the top four. The biggest one of all came in the fourth quarter, when he eluded several tacklers in the backfield and hit Dimitri Flowers on the run for a game-clinching touchdown.

Not only that, the Sooners helped their CFP chances immensely, especially with no fewer than three teams ranked ahead of them losing on Saturday. The two-time defending Big 12 champion Bears will certainly drop further in the playoff rankings before playing at Number 5 Oklahoma State next Saturday.

The Oklahoma defense forced Baylor to go three-and-out on two straight possessions in the second quarter. He passed for 352 yards and five touchdowns in the 49-29 win over TCU that got the nation’s attention. We’re going to bounce back from this. Yet, after so much success, he arrived at a point where the success he sustained for a very long time could not replenish itself. We could have put the dagger in them right then.

“That pick was before halftime, when Blanchard jumped a route for an interception that led the second of Devin Chafin’s three touchdown runs”.

Baylor was favored over Oklahoma, but Mayfield ended its ideal season with one big play after another.

The Hawkeyes can secure their spot in the Big Ten championship game with either a victory in their home finale over Purdue or if No. 18 Northwestern wins at No. 25 Wisconsin.

Oklahoma State’s unorthodox rise includes defying the adage: “If you have two starting quarterbacks, you don’t have one”. With no conference championship game, that leaves the door open for a non-AQ league like the American Athletic Conference to swoop in thanks to an undefeated Houston and a conference championship game. Oklahoma State (10-0)W, at Iowa State, 35-31: It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but it’s a win, Oklahoma State is 10-0, and nothing else matters. He had gone two years without winning the Big 12, something he had never done in 16 seasons in Norman. Heck, Baylor’s offense, even without Seth Russell, stands to do well against Oklahoma State, who has allowed 26 points or more in every conference game not named Kansas. And in the fourth quarter you could tell we hadn’t been there before. It hurts and you’ve got to take it personal and I think we all took it personal today. “We’re getting the ball hopefully around midfield there with a chance to go down and take the lead”.

Eventually, Stidham relayed that news that he was still sore with deep back bruises but an MRI taken Sunday was negative.

“A lot of coaches missed on him”, Stoops said to the media gathered at McLane Stadium. Among other things, Burns returned Texas Tech’s first kick 93 yards for a score.

Oklahoma’s fifth consecutive victory was 44-34 over previously undefeated Baylor, which until Saturday night had an FBS-best 20-game home winning streak that included the first 10 games in its riverside campus stadium.