Big 12 Power Rankings Week 11

That is not the case any longer.

"Well, we've improved", Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops reporters. Plus, with few exceptions, the games are always close.

Oklahoma State Cowboys linebacker Chad Whitener (45) reacts against the TCU Horned Frogs during the first half at Boone Pickens Stadium. Texas sophomore running back D'Onta Foreman had 157 yards rushing and three TDs on 12 carries last week against Kansas, his third 100-yard rushing game this season....

Last season, it was the arm of quarterback Bryce Petty and almost 400 passing yards, with receiver Corey Coleman on the receiving end of 224 of those yards with 15 receptions, that torched the Sooner defense on the way to a 48-14 beatdown. The Cowboys are No. 8 in the College Football Playoff rankings. The 2011 unit won its first 10 games but was stunned by Iowa State in Ames-OSU's only blemish that year. Yes, it's a bit unfair that Oklahoma, if they win out, would be rewarded for having a schedule that was tougher at the end. Baylor is the ultimate football anomaly: a team for which the game's most indispensable position is worthy of the least concern. Of course, me just saying that means they are going to blow through the rest of their schedule just to prove me wrong. Like Stanford, they want to see a one-loss Big 12 champion, or for Clemson to lose the ACC Championship Game. Defensively, TCU is allowing 27.2 points and 396.1 yards per game. "So what you have are two really good football teams playing each other".

"I've never really bought into scenarios of revenge and what a team might have done to us previous year and so on and so forth", Gundy said.

The Sooners averaged 13.6 yards per first down play and gained 488 total yards, or 71.3 percent of their offensive output, on first down.

Now, the hitch: OU has played no one that can press its defense quite like Baylor can. The offense also capitalized on the big plays the defense provided. Walsh is used primarily in the "4-wheeler" package in the red zone while Rudolph is effective in the open field, throwing 17 touchdowns to eight interceptions and 314.9 yards per game.

Stidham was verbally committed to Texas Tech, but changed his mind in December, when he made a last unofficial visit to Baylor before choosing the Bears over Oregon. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State both run versions of the Air Raid.

Crystal balls were adjusted accordingly, and Baylor, which had been the most dominant team in college football this year by a comfortable margin, checked in at sixth in the initial college playoff rankings last week. "Sometimes you penetrate and hold your gap, but these are guys that cross faces and get off gaps and go make plays in space as well as anyone".

TCU: Aaron Green is on pace to be TCU's first 1,000-yard rusher in five seasons. Baylor is capable of scoring every time it has possession. Kansas is rebuilding this season with first-year coach David Beaty, using 39 first-time players this season - the only FBS team with more than TCU's 37.

"It was enormous. You're talking about a team that had not only dominated Baylor, but certainly had dominated the Big 12 the previous decade..."

Finding a solution to the Sooners' early series success is vital. If the OU pass rush is able to disrupt his timing and make him uncomfortable, his chances of making a poor decision and forcing a mistake go up considerably.

Doctson suffered the injury during the second quarter of a 49-29 loss to Oklahoma State on November 7.

-QB Jarrett Stidham had a sparkling debut as Baylor's starter. I feel like I'm back in high school, and it's one at a time. They needed to see what can happen when you go into a Big 12 game overconfident, unfocused and don't take the opponent seriously. I tried to stay completely away from it. I think it's definitely helped me coming into this situation now, with everything.