Oklahoma tops Baylor in OT for Big 12 championship
ARLINGTON, Texas — No. 6 Oklahoma has done all it can, winning a fifth Big 12 title in a row with another close win over No. 8 Baylor.
Now the Sooners wait to see if they are going to get in back in the College Football Playoff. That is up to the selection committee.
“I hope they see the Big 12 champions. They’ve got a job to do, I get that,“coach Lincoln Riley said after Oklahoma’s 3023 overtime win Saturday.
“We’ve had a job to do as a team, which was continuing to improve through the year, trust the things that we could and ultimately win the Big 12 championship,“he said. “We’ve done that.”
Rhamondre Stevenson had a 5yard touchdown run in overtime, and then true freshman Jacob Zeno — whose two long passes in the fourth quarter helped tie the game — was under constant pressure when the Bears got their last chance.
It was the second time in four games that Oklahoma beat the Bears (112, No. 7 CFP), who in coach Matt Rhule’s debut season two years ago lost 11 games with a depleted roster in the aftermath of a scandal that led to the firing of twotime Big 12 champion coach Art Briles.
SUN BELT
BOONE, N.C. — Moments after his team won its second straight Sun Belt Conference championship game, Appalachian State coach Eli Drinkwitz continued to set the bar higher.
“It better be the Cotton Bowl!“Drinkwitz told fans on the field at Kidd Brewer Stadium when asked where he thought his team should play next.
Darrynton Evans scored three touchdowns and 20thranked Appalachian State won its fourth straight Sun Belt championship overall with a 4538 victory over LouisianaLafayette on Saturday. Evans was named the game’s MVP for the second season in a row.
CONFERENCE USA
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Facing fourthandgoal very early in a scoreless game, Lane Kiffin did not even hesitate in his call to leave his Florida Atlantic offense on the field.
Kiffin’s off to Ole Miss — to coach the Rebels.
FAU turned that decision into a touchdown and kept rolling from there, going on to a surprisingly easy 496 win over UAB in the Conference USA championship game on Saturday. Chris Robison threw for 267 yards and four touchdowns, BJ Emmons ran for a pair of scores and the Owls — in Kiffin’s finale — sent their coach off with his second league title in three years.