No. 3 Oklahoma, by any reasonable assessment, should have clinched a berth in the College Football Playoff along with the Big 12 championship it earned with Saturday night’s 58-23 rout of No. 11 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.
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En route to Oklahoma’s fourth touchdown of the game, Mixon almost broke another long run after getting a Mayfield pass in the backfield – just one of a couple such occasions.
“But we’ve had a great year”.
Less than a year ago, Stoops was left dumbfounded and helpless as Clemson embarrassed his team by five touchdowns in a disappointing bowl game.
With their season over, the Sooners must wait to see whether or not they’re included in the field.
The win gives Oklahoma the outright Big 12 championship and seems to set the Sooners up to play in the College Football Playoff. 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. Before a snap had been taken, Baylor and TCU were considered to be the darlings of the Big 12 after their shootout on the Brazos the year before.
OU wasn’t taking any chances in Bedlam, jumping out to a 34-10 lead in the second quarter and rolling from there.
When they weren’t running it, the Sooners found success throwing the ball, especially to Sterling Shepard who had 10 catches for 87 yards and a touchdown.
“I knew we had a good football team, better than what people thought”, Stoops said. Clemson, Alabama and Iowa now are the other three teams that fill out the top four teams as of Week 14, but with all three of those teams involved in conference championship games next weekend, there could still be changes in the four Playoff teams before next Sunday, when the official Playoff rankings are released for the final time this season.
“We could have played him more, but I was not real comfortable”, Gundy said. Then the Buckeyes rolled through the rest of the regular season undefeated and dominated Wisconsin 59-0 in the Big Ten Championship Game to make the Playoff.
Richt is 145-51 at Georgia and has two Southeastern Conference titles but failed to win the weak East Division three years in a row. There were two one-play touchdown drives in the first quarter and two 10-play drives in the second half.
Walsh threw for 325 yards and a pair of touchdowns but couldn’t do enough to answer the Sooners’ offensive firepower. “They outcoached us and outplayed us”.
Samaje Perine had 131 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the win over Oklahoma State.
Oklahoma scored 30 points in the second quarter. Mississippi State also dropped out after losing to Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl at home.
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Nov 28, 2015; Stillwater, OK, USA; Oklahoma Sooners cornerback Jordan Thomas (7) returns a second quarter interception against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium.
