They still have a lot of talent as well though and they weren’t ranked 10 in the nation for nothing.
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Baylor (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) averages 64.2 points per game, tops in the nation, and TCU (6-0, 3-0) is third at 51 points per game.
Oklahoma travels Saturday to Kansas State, where coach Bill Snyder has made his living playing that kind of football with those kinds of quarterbacks. The Bears have now scored 321 points this season, the most for a team through five games since major classifications began in 1937, according to the Elias Sports Bureau research.
This was an ugly game in the first half to be sure, particularly on the part of West Virginia.
You want offense? Look no further.
Trevone Boykin – yeah, that guy’s pretty good. But the drive stalled, and Cantele’s 37-yard field goal knotted the game 45-all with 1:52 left.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Heisman Trophy candidate Leonard Fournette raced 87 yards for a touchdown on the second play of the second half, shredding the Gamecocks’ defense for 158 yards on 20 carries in three quarters, to lift the Tigers to victory.
The Mountaineers lost a tough one this past week in overtime. In a 55-52 TCU win, the two teams accounted for 1,357 total yards and an absolutely dramatic finish.
The good news for TCU is that Sam B. Richardson doesn’t run that much, and the Cyclones pass the ball 57% of the time, for which Richardson has 8 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.
I was very disappointed by the Wildcat special team’s defense on kickoff returns. TCU, Baylor and Oklahoma State are all still undefeated, but last week’s No. 1, OU, fell off track in a loss to Texas.
At home last season, West Virginia handed Baylor its only regular-season loss, which cost the Bears a chance at the College Football Playoff.
TCU coach Gary Patterson had warned his players all week not to take them lightly, and was concerned when he noticed them joking and laughing through practice. The frogs were down 35-17 at half-time and the upset was brewing. But then comes the four-game stretch that will define its season: at Kansas State, Oklahoma, at Oklahoma State, and a trip to TCU on November 11 that could decide the Big 12 title. And after the Horned Frogs got a field goal from Jaden Oberkrom, Kansas State struck for two more touchdowns: Jones sprinted 28 yards up the middle for the first, and after Elijah Lee picked off Boykin, Hubener sneaked in from a yard out for a 35-17 halftime lead. Heath was obviously the odd man out, but Kansas State developed a unique and efficient technique to solve this issue.
One of his runs, a 69-yard sprint with 6:07 left, gave TCU the lead.
“With your rank, going into these away games, you’re going to have sell out crowds, they’re going to be fired up to play”, said Doctson, the Horned Frogs’ star receiver. He turned in a awesome performance to be perfectly honest. But the Cyclones failed their first big test, losing 66-31 to Texas Tech while giving up 776 total yards. Big-time offensive firepower was on display, particularly in the second half.
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The Big 12 already admitted a mistake from the chain crew in last week’s Kansas State-Oklahoma State game. They were extremely deliberate and controlled the game just as they planned. Steve Spurrier seems to have run out of answers at age 70, but Snyder just keeps going strong. Thanks to a few Boykin wizardry, eventually the score was tied 45-45 with under two minutes to play, and that’s when Doctson got involved, too.
