The bowl season did not go well for the Big Ten’s heavyweights.
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Baylor’s emotionally gutting loss to TCU last Friday on a dreary, rain-soaked night in Fort Worth cost the Bears a chance to make the four-team College Football Playoff.
Oklahoma State quarterback J.W. Walsh throws a pass over Oklahoma… For Perine, it means a 1,300-yard yard season after a slow start that reached a crescendo with a 10-carry, 36-yard day in the loss to Texas. One, Jay Norvell, shared a locker room with him when the two played together at Iowa back in 1982. With their football resume complete for the regular season, the Sooners (11-1) are about to live the reality Petty sang about in 1985: “The waiting is the hardest part”.
Baker Mayfield, the Oklahoma Sooners star quarterback, is dating Baillee Burmaster, who happens to be a senior on the Oklahoma State soccer team. The tandem’s emergence doesn’t get enough credit for what Oklahoma has done over its last seven games. Oklahoma State’s defense is no pushover with that front four.
The celebration on the field was a wild scene.
All that awaits the Sooners and Cowboys now is the news of where the two will go bowling. It turned into a free-for-all once the victory became official. At one point, Shepard and Mayfield even jumped into the seats to celebrate with fans. We made a few plays on offense, but when we turn the ball over, it obviously hurts us. Perine had touchdown runs of 68 and 25 yards, and Mixon added a 66-yard scoring run in the half. He limped to the locker room after the on-field celebration.
The Sooners have stayed relatively healthy all season compared to their conference counterparts like Baylor and TCU that struggled to keep their moment and claim to that title.
“I haven’t looked that far ahead”, Coleman said. “We’ll see what his journey ends up but I’m sure it’s gonna be successful”. Zack Sanchez had one of his worst days in crimson and cream.
The pleasure comes in knowing the Sooners are off this week.
“Two very similar teams, there’s no question”, West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said. The players need to rest. Yet, college football rarely is that easy to sort through, meaning that an upset by either Florida or North Carolina in their respective championship game would hamper or eliminate their opponent’s playoff selection.
“Especially this late in the season”.
Coleman unsure about National Football League plans: Baylor superstar wide receiver Corey Coleman is a redshirt junior, meaning he could declare for next year’s National Football League draft.
The 12-0 Hawkeyes also remain at fourth place in the Coaches Poll, in which they received one first place vote.
Even Mayfield padded his Heisman stats with a couple of long runs including a 27-yard scamper, ending with a touchdown on over 70 yards as well – his third game in the past four with such a stat line.
Every other team, including the Cowboys, lost its starter for at least a full game during the stretch.
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“He can only play one way”, Stoops said.
