Samaje Perine has the Oklahoma Sooners off and running this year toward the college football playoff. A ranking outside the top four would be a shock, however. The Sooners immediately went to work on the recruiting trail preaching their dominance with a social media blitz that touted their success and also all of their Big 12 championship swag.
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The Big Ten’s representative in the College Football Playoff will likely be determined by this weekend’s title game, played on Saturday at 7:00. The Tide will face Florida in the championship game next Saturday.
Towles will earn a political science degree next month and have one season of eligibility remaining.
The same “yeah, but [bad loss]” qualifier also had to be made for Ohio State past year, after the Buckeyes inexplicably lost to Virginia Tech at the beginning of the season. The win gave OU its third over a ranked team in as many games.
Deshaun Watson has the Clemson Tigers rolling into the ACC Championship Game. Oklahoma State defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah ranks third nationally with 11 sacks. TCU would be eliminated because it has the worst scoring differential in the head-to-head meetings, a minus-13 based on a 49-29 loss to Oklahoma State (minus-20) and a 28-21 victory over Baylor (plus-7).
Johnson, who completed just 7 of 24 attempts in his first career start at the college level, acknowledged the adverse weather conditions contributed to his struggles. The loss jumbled the hopes of all Big 12 teams in the CFP picture, especially since the panel has chosen not to throw any considerable love to the conference. No matter what Oklahoma does next week here in Bedlam, it’s just another game unless the Sooners get help down the road.
With Iowa and Michigan State at Nos. But what if the Spartans lose to the Hawkeyes in the Big Ten Championship?
The new rankings will be released Tuesday night. The Tar Heels haven’t lost since the opening week of the season and will push Clemson.
Mayfield showed no effects from a concussion he suffered a week earlier, throwing for 180 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 77 yards and a touchdown as Oklahoma blew out No. 11 Oklahoma State 58-23 in front of 58,231 at Boone Pickens Stadium. Michigan State’s only loss this season came to a fledgling Nebraska team, although it narrowly squeaked out wins over Michigan and Ohio State.
But Oklahoma won two of the three games in convincing fashion, with only the win over TCU at home going down to the wire.
Alabama and Clemson will both be in with wins Saturday. Then, and only then, does an 11-1 Buckeyes squad has an outside shot of unseating these favorites if the loss in the title game is humiliating.
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Even if Baylor had won the night after Thanksgiving, the Sooners – the only team to win three consecutive Big 12 titles – would have still clinched their ninth Big 12 title with their overwhelming victory at Oklahoma State on Saturday night.
