Oklahoma State is No. 14. Even though the University and the city are still reeling from the Homecoming Parade tragedy, they have come together as they’ve so often had to do.
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That means the four other power conferences – Big Ten, ACC, SEC and Big 12 – have clear paths to the four-team College Football Playoff if things go as expected, or close to as expected. But despite the potential of all of those players, on the road, in Stillwater, against a top 15 team, I am betting that the outcome of the game today has the most to do with the performance of these two players.
Rudolph connected with Jeff Carr on a screen pass for a 12-yard score that put the Cowboys up 21-9 early in the second quarter. “Just really proud of the guys for being able to run (Boykin) down a few and make a few plays”. There is no Heisman Trophy candidate, no big star; just a balanced and explosive offense.
Rudolph was 16-for-24 for 352 yards and 5 touchdowns in the Cowboys’ 49-29 win over TCU. Baylor gets to face Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and TCU in November. It starts Saturday as the #8 TCU Horned Frogs travel to the #14 Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Cowboys started 9-0 that year and used another tragedy, when women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna were among four killed in a plane crash in Perry County, Ark., while they were on a recruiting trip, as motivation.
Sorry, Plaxico Burress, who erupted on Twitter after the game, posting obscenities at the NCAA, but this is on your alma mater.
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The same, believe it or not, holds true for MI State.
He became the first K-State linebacker with two picks in a game since Bryan Hickman against Oklahoma State in 2002.
TCU’s Trevone Boykin passed for 445 yards and ran for 73 yards and two touchdowns. The Jayhaws are coming off a 59-20 loss to Texas on the road last week. He has caught at least three passes in every game, and last week’s effort against Oklahoma was his second 100-yard game in three weeks.
Iowa should be as high as No. 6 in Tuesday’s new playoff rankings and Kirk Ferentz’s team legitimately controls its own destiny to make the Final Four. Washington caught three scores longer than 45 yards on Saturday and finished with 184 yards on just five catches.
Junior running back Charles Jones is in the midst of the best four-game stretch of his career as he has 291 of his season total 378 yards over the last four contests.
Christian McCaffrey, who grew up in nearby Denver, where his father, Ed, starred for the Broncos in the 1990s, had 220 all-purpose yards, and threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to tight end Austin Hooper. “We are going to fight and we are going to find a way to win”.
As ESPN outlined before the Cowboys handily beat TCU, the Pokes have a favorable schedule against the conference’s top teams.
The 30-16 margin of victory over LSU doesn’t accurately illustrate how dominant this win was. There was no rally this week, as the defense gave up 374 rushing yards and forced Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds to throw the ball just five times.
Notre Dame never trailed and rolled up 435 total yards in its first game since being ranked fifth in the initial CFP poll.
With his 32nd win, Hogan surpassed Andrew Luck as the school’s winningest quarterback. The Seminoles had won three straight against the Tigers, and then went on to win the Atlantic Division and the conference title game. Win those games and Navy will head to the AAC championship.
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Saturday was easy, because everyone got nice time and production, but two regulars were out (Fred Van Vleet and Conner Frankamp), even counting on Rauno Nurger and Brett Barney to redshirt, that still leaves 13 scholarship players vying for time–someone not expecting to is going to be shorted minutes.
