Said Beaty: “From our standpoint…”
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“No matter what they said about the Big 12 we felt like we were different”. Matt Dimon and Charles Walker have been out for a few games and Matt Romar injured his knee last week and is out for Saturday.
After losing at Texas, and before going to Oklahoma on November 12, Baylor is home Saturday against TCU. Westbrook also scored at least two touchdowns in each of those games.
The Kansas players, meanwhile, described the hard mental process of dealing with such a defeat shortly after its conclusion. Junior linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo suffered from dehydration and will sit out against the Jayhawks.
“It was more of just trying to focusing on the basics, looking at the film and realizing that I’m trying to do too much, learning from it and getting the ball out of my hands”, he said.
The Jayhawks responded to the touchdown with a balanced running and passing drive of 16 plays, covering 69 yards and capped by a 23-yard field goal to put Kansas on the board, 7-3. LaQuvionte Gonzalez led in receiving with 106 yards and a touchdown in six catches while Steven Sims Jr. had 90 yards in nine receptions. His workload has dramatically increased since Perine’s injury.
The Maxwell Award goes to college football’s player of the year, and OU joined Alabama as the only schools with more than one semifinalist on the list.
Mayfield has been even more impressive in OU’s five conference games, leading the league in passing TDs (20; Mahomes ranks second with 14), completion percentage (.743; Mahomes is next at.659) and pass efficiency rating (212.8; Baylor’s Seth Russell ranks second at 157.2). We told him he needed to come back and play D-tackle or D-end. “But there’s a chance if we have maybe a long drive or maybe you have a long drive and have a quick three-and-out where we’re right back out there, I think you could see it”.
The past four weeks has been the “Dede Westbrook Show” with Mixon occasionally being the guest star after having a slow start to the season. “It isn’t just my brother and I”, he said.
Dating back to the October 1 game at TCU, Westbrook has 35 catches for 776 yards and 10 touchdowns.
The Oklahoma Sooners look to build on their solid five-game winning streak and remain in the college football playoff conversation.
Oklahoma ranks 127th out of 128 FBS team in pass defense allowing an average of 342.6 yards per game.
This marks the second straight year Mayfield has been named a semifinalist for the award.
KU’s only win this year came against Rhode Island, a 1-7 FCS team, in the season opener.
Monday morning on the Big 12 coaches’ media teleconference, a reporter asked Kansas coach David Beaty if seeing the OU defense give up so many yards and points gave him examples of areas where the Sooners might be vulnerable.
Options narrowed for OU-Baylor game: The Nov. 12 OU-Baylor won’t have a kickoff time until next week. They have a new swagger about them and are playing with the confidence of a team ready to retain their Big 12 crown.
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Kickoff from Morgantown is slated for either the 2:30 p.m., or 6 p.m., time slot. ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 or Fox Sports 1 will televise the game.
