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Great Sooner win over Baylor, but was the Playoff Committee watching at all?

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I guess there are some stories floating around that Art Briles may have said something less than flattering to Bob Stoops during their post game hand shake. So called “insiders” have said that is the case, but will not elaborate.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Arrogant prick. At his post game press conference he couldn’t bring himself to congratulate the Sooners. Closest he got to any praise for OU was saying that OU was a “good team but we made too many mistakes and they got out of here with a win.” Translation: “I don’t want to give OU any credit, we lost the game, OU didn’t win it.”

You know, sometimes that is the case. But not this time Art, and you know it. The Sooners came out with a chip on their shoulder and after Baylor’s first drive, punched the Bears in the mouth.

Whenever Baylor threatened to take the lead, the Sooners answered. And boy are the excuses coming out now. “Well, that was our back up quarterback.” That’s a very different story than what I heard before the game. All I heard from Baylor fans and Briles himself was that Stidham was ready. He isn’t your normal freshman back up. He enrolled in January and knows the offense. The offense won’t skip a beat. He’s better than Russell…and on and on. Whatever.

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The play of the season that defines these Baker Mayfield-led Sooners

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With just 4:58 left in the fourth quarter the game had come down to one play. A third and goal from the seven yard line. Oklahoma was leading 37-34.

Score a touchdown and the Sooners would likely put this slugfest of a game over. End this drive with a field goal would put Oklahoma up by just six — an uncomfortable place, given the rapidity with which the Baylor Bears had scored.

I texted friends: “This is a game winning or game losing play right here.”

Baker Mayfield, who had been brilliant all night and exceptionally lucky all night (two fumbles providently bounced back in his hands to save disaster), dropped back to pass. He was looking for Sterling Shephard running a corner route. Covered. Mark Andrews was running another route. Covered. Mayfield started to run for it — but no, the opening closed. The Baylor pass rush was closing in. And Mayfield scrambled.

It looked like one of those run-a-thousand-yards scrambles that would end in an incomplete pass, or a sack or something worse.

Then fullback Dimitri Flowers — who had been blocking in pass protection — didn’t have anyone to block as the Bear defenders were “bearing” down on Mayfield. Flowers slipped into the end zone and started waiving his hands.

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Offense and defense share the limelight in aggressive 44-34 winning performance

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On a night where it looked like an Ali-Frazier brawl, the Sooners matched Baylor punch for punch. And in the end it was that Sooners’ defensive aggressiveness and some Baker Mayfield juking and jiving that knocked the Baylor Bears from the unbeaten ranks.

Oklahoma defeated Baylor 44-34 in Waco.

The Sooners defense shut down Baylor on four consecutive possessions — an unheard of feat this year in the Big 12 against the No. 1 scoring offense in the country.

Even when the Bears offense clicked — with easy drives for TDs to open the game and the second half, the Sooners offense answered, then provided the final answer with a fourth-quarter drive that capped the win over No. 4 Baylor.

After Baylor began the third quarter with a game-tying drive, Baker Mayfield hit Sterling Shepard from 7 yards out — Shepard’s second TD catch of the game — to retake the lead 27-20.

OU stretched the lead to 14 with a to-the-house 55-yard scoring run by Samaje Perine. But the Bears came back to narrow the margin to a one-score game on a 5-yard pass from quarterback Jarrett Stidham to LaQuan McGowan. And it was game on.

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