Instead, the Horned Frogs went for the victory by attempting the 2-point conversion but were turned away by Parker’s late play.
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“I haven’t had a headache since Saturday, so I feel like I’m progressing”, he said. His long-term health is considerably more important, though, than any football game, even one with everything on the line like will be the case in Stillwater this weekend.
“We weren’t aggressive enough”, Riley said.
Leaving Nixon wide open in the end zone, Parker charged the quarterback.
It was easy to kind of discredit a lot of what he’d done in previous weeks because it came against the likes of Kansas and Iowa State, but these last two weeks have shown Tapper’s stellar play has been no fluke.
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield is expected to play this week after a hit to the head Saturday, coach Bob Stoops said Monday. Oklahoma State had it tied at 14 in the first quarter with the first of two touchdown catches from both James Washington and Jalen McCleskey, but Baylor cranked out 24 straight points to pull ahead and stay there.
So, suffice it to say, as soon as Porter came down with the ball (in itself a small miracle), I knew that we were going to go for two. “When you can not be at your best and win, it’s always a positive against a ranked team”.
Mayfield was 9-of-20 for 127 yards and a pair of touchdowns before being checked out. The TCU Horned Frogs ground game is averaging 224.7 yards per contest, and Aaron Green leads the way with 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns. “We fight back no matter who’s on the field”. We just felt like we were going to make one to win the game. That’s what we’ve been taught to do.
A ferocious comeback effort fell just short for the Frogs, who trailed by 17 points entering the fourth quarter. Mayfield finished the quarter, but didn’t play in the second half after acknowledging he had a headache.
TCU HC Gary Patterson said “you have to take ballgames [on the road]” while discussing his decision to attempt a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 30-29 loss to Oklahoma.
“I hated having to sit out for those seniors who have put in the work in such a big game like that, our last home game”, Mayfield said. To everyone’s surprise, Trevor Knight was in at quarterback on the opening drive to replace Mayfield, who was ruled out of the game by the OU team doctors during halftime for precautionary reasons. “We weren’t very consistent at all”.
“I just hate I had to watch the rest of that game from the sideline”.
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Perine proved he was OK on a 72-yard touchdown run, putting OU up 30-13 with 7:55 left in the third. But redshirt freshman Foster Sawyer, making his first career start after coming on in relief after Boykin suffered an ankle sprain a week earlier against Kansas, got off to a hot start with the help of receiver Kolby Listenbee.
