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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Texas and Oklahoma fall in last week of Big 12
ETHAN PADWAY
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All season the Wildcats relied on their defense to win games. After a 26-yard touchdown run by sophomore running back John Hubert gave the Wildcats a seven-point lead with 3:29 left, the Wildcats would once again count on a defensive stop to give them a victory. The defense came through, forcing a fumble on fourth and two as the Wildcats won their 10th game of the season. Junior quarterback Collin Klein threw for 158 yards and one touchdown on the day, but he completed only seven of his 15 passes, with the bulk of his yards coming on a 68-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter.
BAYLOR 48 TEXAS 24
The Longhorn offense could not keep up with the Baylor onslaught led by junior quarterback Robert Griffin III and senior running back Terrance Ganaway. Griffin threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns and Ganaway ran for 152 yards and two more scores. Longhorn sophomore quarterback Case McCoy entered the game without having thrown an interception all season, but he came out and threw four on the day. The Longhorns finished the game with six turnovers, compared to just one for the Bears, as they went on to lose their fifth game in Big 12 play.
OKLAHOMA STATE 44. OKLAHOMA 10
For the first time since 2002, Oklahoma State defeated in-state rival Oklahoma. The victory also gave the Cowboys their first Big 12 championship since the conference formed in 1996. The Cowboys jumped out to a 24-0 lead before freshman kicker Michael Hunnicutt put the Sooners on the board with a 48-yard field goal. Sophomore running back Joseph Randle ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns, sophomore running back Jeremy Smith added 119 yards and two more touchdowns as the Cowboys made their case to be included in the BCS championship game.
Oklahoma State makes its case to play in BCS championship
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
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STILLWATER, Okla. — Mike Gundy didn't feel comfortable campaigning for No. 3 Oklahoma State to play for the national title until his Cowboys had at least won a conference crown.
His team made a better case than anything he could have ever said.
Joseph Randle ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns, Ricetti Jones returned a fumble for a score and No. 3 Oklahoma State throttled No. 13 Oklahoma 44-10 Saturday night to win the Big 12 championship and make its case to play for the BCS national title.
"I don't think there's any question Oklahoma State should play in the big game," Gundy said.
The Cowboys (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) snapped an eight-game losing streak in the Bedlam rivalry and won their first outright conference title since 1948 in the three-team Missouri Valley.
Oklahoma State's defense, badmouthed much of the season while giving up big yardage but leading the nation in takeaways, forced the Sooners (9-3, 6-3) into five turnovers — four of them by quarterback Landry Jones.
Fans started chanting "L-S-U!" midway through the fourth quarter
with the victory well in hand, then stormed the field and tore down the goal posts when it was over.
The top-ranked Tigers could be next up for the Pokes, but only with a boost in the BCS standings due out Sundav night.
"If that's the way it works out, absolutely. We took care of what we could take care of," quarterback Brandon Weeden said. "We had to worry about us and control what we could control, and if we were able to do that, we were conference champs."
While the top-ranked Tigers won the SEC championship Saturday to lock up a spot in the BCS title game,
No. 2 Alabama sat at home idle after finishing second in its division. Oklahoma State, meanwhile, proved itself the best team in its state and its conference. But it's up to the voters, who had the Cowboys fifth in the coaches' poll and Harris poll, to decide whether Oklahoma State will play for the highest stakes.
Gundy proclaimed earlier this week that he considered the Crimean Tide to be the second-best team in the nation "right now" — but that's what he thought his team needed to hear at the time.
"I have to make that decision and I wasn't raised that way. I'm not comfortable standing up and
beating our chests and saying that we needed to play somebody when we hadn't even won this game," Gundv said.
"That was what we were telling the team in here every day. ... I said, 'Look, I'm not going to go stand up and say we need to go play somebody else until you guys beat Oklahoma."
Afterward, he proclaimed on the field that "there's no question Oklahoma State should be No. 2 right now.
"The honest answer is we didn't deserve it. We do now," Gundy said. "And if we'd have won this game 17-14, I don't know if I'd have said
it. When you win by 34 points, we deserve the right."
The Cowboys won over at least one voter: Sooners coach Bob Stoops said hed put them at No.2 on his ballot.
"I'm sure they're going to have some great opportunities from here," Stoops said. "I don't know what will happen."
For most of the 107 years of the Bedlam rivalry, the Sooners had the better team and more on the line. But each of the past two years, Oklahoma came in with a lower ranking and still found a way to derail a couple of the best teams in Oklahoma State history.
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