Oklahoma Starts Toughest Stretch Against Baylor

If that was perceived as a shot at the offensive superiority exerted by its best teams, Oklahoma State supplied a nice response by stunning TCU 49-29 in the first battle of league unbeatens.

Win out, and a Big 12 championship banner will be earned.

Numbers and statistics are a huge part of college football.

Wilson-Guest, who now lives in Broken Arrow, admits he gets emotional when recalling that month in 2000 which served as a springboard to a national championship.

“This point of the season, you have to emphasize having energy, having focus, having intensity”, Darlington said.

The Crimson Tide are coming off what is easily the most impressive win they have had this year. At the same time we remember they took care of us the past two years.

Oklahoma’s players – as expected – aren’t looking past Saturday’s 7 p.m. game against Baylor. “Any game plan, being able to control the run is where it all starts for us”, Mike Stoops said.Sanchez grabbed a handful of pieces of bubble gum before the game and promised to reward them to his teammates if they made especially big plays during Saturday’s game. “I really believed the BCS playoff committee had Memphis too high in the rankings at No. 13”. It’s an undefeated team. The Bears host Oklahoma on Saturday, travel to Oklahoma State on November 21 and then have a short week to travel to TCU on November 27. “The next one doesn’t matter without the first one, and we can’t look past or look ahead to anything”.

BEAR FACTS: Baylor’s regular season finale against Texas on December 5 at McLane Stadium has been set for 11 a.m…Briles said safety Chance Waz (neck strain) could be ready for Oklahoma but isn’t sure about the status of defensive tackle Byron Bonds (knee strain)…Baylor running backs coach Jeff Lebby won’t coach the first half of the Oklahoma game after he broke a NCAA rule for being on the Tulsa sideline when it played at Oklahoma on September 19.

“We wouldn’t even see the whole schedule”, McCoy said. This was a complete performance against another very good team. Everything was geared around that one-week-at-a-time mentality. “I wasn’t playing at all, but you just felt bad for everybody because they put in all this hard work, and they prepared as best they could for the game, but it was just a weird atmosphere”.

Stoops was pried – once again – during his Monday press conference on the importance of the upcoming three games. He didn’t take the bait, choosing to concentrate on the Bears.

“My landscape, we’re in it right here”, Briles said. “That’s how it’s been every week”.

OSU doesn’t have the best defense in the country, but it’s a respectable 42nd, according to S&P+, which is just fine for the offensive-minded Big 12.

The veteran coach did admit he doesn’t mind the back-to-back-to-back games against quality competition. “If we win out, that says enough”. Making his first career start against Kansas State – which is never an easy place to play – Stidham played with the poise of a seasoned signal caller. “Now, if we’re maybe not getting guys back, you wish you had another week, possibly, but that isn’t the case”.

To get where they want to go, OU will need to begin with a win over Baylor. It would be an opportunity to also extract a little revenge after two lopsided losses to the Bears.

The Cyclones, who just lost at Oklahoma 52-16 for their fourth defeat in five games, are an inferior opponent, but the Cowboys know they can’t afford to overlook them.

Does Burcham have any advice for this year’s team? “Stranger things have happened”.

“They have to have that chip on their shoulder”. They have something to prove to the country. Oklahoma State had to go and ruin the party.