Oklahoma up to 3rd in AP poll

The Sooners shot up to No. 3 in the last College Football Playoff ranking, and now they are in the same spot in the AP poll.

Follow the road to the 2015 College Football Playoff at The Football Four, our home to rate and debate the nation’s best. The Wildcats could also be a potential bowl team with a losing record, as could Texas (4-7, 3-5) if the Longhorns win their finale at No. 12 Baylor (9-2, 6-2).

– The game against SC. A loss by Alabama in the SEC Championship leaves the committee with a hard decision as both teams (and possible Stanford) would loom as two-loss contenders.

Presumably, Johnson will play his last game for Texas against the team he broke out against as freshman. 2 LSU, 30-16, in its previous two games against FBS opponents. The Tide will face Florida in the championship game next Saturday.

In a matter of hours Saturday night, college football’s landscape underwent some significant shifts.

No. 2 Alabama 29, Auburn 13: AUBURN, Ala.

Clemson, meanwhile, will have a chance to make a statement about the caliber of its team.

Deshaun Watson has the Clemson Tigers rolling into the ACC Championship Game.

62 Passing yards by Baylor in last week’s loss to TCU, fewest in any game by the Bears since the 2002 season under former coach Kevin Steele.

North Carolina was No. 14 in the Playoff rankings last week.

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

Saturday, it was Oklahoma State’s J.W. Walsh, who started in place of Mason Rudolph after Rudolph suffered a foot injury a week earlier against Baylor.

Oklahoma’s impressive 58-23 victory over Oklahoma State resonated with national pollsters in the Sooners’ final regular-season game of the season.

So here is how the Big 12’s big four teams fared in November: Oklahoma 4-0, Oklahoma State 2-2, Baylor 2-2, TCU 2-2.

Finishing out the game left a bit to be desired as the Sooners only manage to score twice more, but to consider Mixon getting the go ahead of Perine with the gas off yet both finished with over 130 yards and two scores should be a scary thought for even the most lauded of defenses.

Baker Mayfield, the star quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners (who couldn’t get Kingsbury to give him a scholarship at Tech, even after being named the Offensive Freshman of the Year in the Big 12 – I just can’t get past that) came back from a concussion to play like a man with no fear, rushing for 77 yards against an Oklahoma State defense that had proven to be punishing to rushers all season.

In 2011, Oklahoma was preseason No. 1 and steadily slipped as the season went along. No. 2 will play No. 3 in Dallas.

“They pretty much outcoached us”, Cowboys defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah said. It was the second-highest point total for Oklahoma in any half of a Bedlam game, trailing just the 45 points the Sooners scored in the first half of the 1970 game.