It is a part of the game that the Sooners must clean up, or it will could cost them dearly moving ahead in the schedule. Before he cut loose with a few memorable dance steps when informed he would be OU’s starting quarterback after sitting out last season under NCAA transfer rules.
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Strong is two years into a five-year guaranteed contract worth more than $5 million per year.
Like Mayfield, Mayes is from Lake Travis, Texas, just outside of Austin.
“He’s a gamer”, Doyle said, smiling.
“He grew up an Oklahoma fan”. The Longhorns need him to clog collapse the pocket around Mayfield and be strong in run defense to slow down Samaje Perine. And he made that happen.
A lot of this growth has to do with Baker Mayfield running the show, no question. “But he saw an opportunity and took it”.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the University of Texas Longhorns will beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Cotton Bowl Saturday at the Red River Shootout and has made the proper wager to back up his claim.
Don’t think Charlie Strong pictured his time at Texas going this way. The Longhorns were never the same after their loss to Alabama in the 2009 national championship game and declined with every additional year Brown was allowed to stay.
He’s watched Mayfield play both football and baseball with a chip on his shoulder for years. It was two years ago, on Thanksgiving Day in Austin.
The Sooners come into the 2015 Red River Showdown in the Cotton Bowl ranked No. 10 in this week’s Associated Press poll (No. 9 in the USA Today/Amway Coaches Poll). But he stressed nothing is guaranteed despite OU’s status as a 17-point favorite. Texas will try to get a better showing from their offensive line against the Oklahoma.
“The Texas thing’s a little bit different for me”, Mayfield said. It’s a rivalry game.
Texas fans are wondering if any of this is going to come true.
Oklahoma is 4-0 on the season, 1-0 in the Big 12, 3-1 against the spread and 2-2 with the over/under total. He has balanced 13 touchdown passes against three interceptions, with scoring strikes of 71, 28 and 17 yards in last week’s 44-24 victory over then-No.
During the Stoops era, Oklahoma boasts four wins of at least 35 points over Texas. “We’ll have to play well against him”, Stoops said. “Baker’s just a little more enthusiastic when he runs into the end zone to congratulate somebody”. But the coaches speaking to Evans and Thamel – perhaps including ones at Big 12 rivals Oklahoma State and TCU, who would seem to have far more to gain from noting the conference’s dormant superpower is still poorly-coached than from praising the man in charge of it – seem mostly laudatory of the job Strong has done, with the reporters even writing “many coaches still can’t believe Strong was able to will the Longhorns to a 6-7 record last season”.
The lone Longhorn win this season came against a Rice team that holds a 2-3 record, but looking at the four Texas’ losses paints a better picture of it season. That is because the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns are powerhouses in college football.
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West Virginia 35, No. 21 Oklahoma State 31 (Saturday, 6 p.m., ESPN2): Mountaineers thin the ranks of undefeated Big 12 teams by taking down a Top 25 foe in front of the home crowd.
