A 45-35 loss to Baylor on Saturday night probably cost the team a shot at the College Football Playoff.
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“Obviously, there was disappointment”. “There’s a lot that they know they can play for”. Oklahoma State, meanwhile, remained overshadowed by in-state rival Oklahoma.
“I think that we need to give the offensive staff and coach Yurcich some credit”, Gundy said. We’ll try to stay focused on the task at hand.
Several factors will also help ensure that the Cowboys do not have a mental letdown.
Nabbing the first game of the Bedlam series for Oklahoma would be another feather in his hat in a race that has all but been decided after previous favorites such as Leonard Fournette, Ezekiel Elliott, and Trevone Boykin have been knocked down in perception.
While the Cowboys squandered a big opportunity at home last week, the Sooners squeezed out a one-point victory against a banged-up TCU team in Norman. He was the very first walk-on freshman to earn a starting QB spot at a Power 5 conference school at Texas Tech, but was denied a scholarship by the Red Raiders even after winning Big 12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year in 2013. While some teams struggle with rotating signal callers, whether it be stalling momentum or chemistry issues, Mason Rudolph and J.W. Walsh have complimented each other nicely this year.
“It’s going to be a challenge, but as a secondary, we’ve talked about their receivers a little bit”, Parker said.
The Tide have been criticized by me in the past for catching some enormous breaks in their schedule and living off the SEC hype (and yes, even then I knew they were still good). Walsh acknowledged that the pregame ceremony will be an emotional experience, but he was ready to embrace the moment. “They’re unselfish. They’re team players, and they put the team first”. For the fifth time in eight years, the Bedlam game could determine the Big 12 title.
“Bedlam takes care of anything that would have happened, ” Gundy said of any potential letdown following Saturday’s loss. “I will say there are teams from this league good enough to get in there, compete and win”.
“I think coaches politicking for leverage are just wasting their time”, he said.
“We wouldn’t be anything without our defensive line, and they’ve been playing lights out every game, especially in these big games”, safety Steven Parker, whose batted pass saved last week’s 30-29 win over TCU, said. During Oklahoma’s media session Tuesday, quarterback Baker Mayfield and center Ty Darlington discussed, among other items, what the rivalry means to them and this year’s team. Stoops said he will be checking with doctors and trainers on what Mayfield needs to do to play. “If he has a setback in any way with the protocol and the testing that our doctors and trainers do, he will not”.
Mayfield is 226-329 for 3209 yards, 33 touchdowns and nine interceptions on the year, averaging 9.8 yards per attempt.
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Players hear him scream it at least two or three times a practice, players, so it’s hard to forget. “We already we live for this kind of game and this atmosphere and the receivers we’re going to face”.
