The Big 12 conference doesn't have a title game like some of the others in college football, but this year all the teams at the top are playing in the final weekend, with Baylor and Texas going at it this afternoon, while Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will try and shake out the BCS and the game will be from Boone Pickens Stadium starting up at 12:00 pm noon on ABC on TV.
The Cowboys can get into the BCS with a win on Saturday and Oklahoma can shake things up for Texas and Baylor, as the Bears are going at it, but since the Sooners already fell to those two and they have more losses than the other three teams in the Big 12 and that gives those schools a chance to go for it. The Cowboys come into the matchup ranked sixth in the nation while Baylor is ninth and Oklahoma is 17th while Texas is at 25th and on Saturday the Sooners will visit OSU to try and pull off the upset. OK State will clinch a share of the Big 12 conference with a win and if they do that, they will finish ranked higher than Baylor and the Longhorns and that should give them a shot at a game for the second time in the past three seasons and that has been more successful than Oklahoma and that is what is on the line on Saturday afternoon.
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Oklahoma can finish tied for second in the conference and the three teams at the top come in at 7-1 and on the season Oklahoma State and Baylor are both 10-1 and the Bears had a legit chance to get into the national title game, but they lost and now it looks like Ohio State and Michigan State. Oklahoma has done a good job of handing Oklahoma State bad news, as they shut the team out in the rivalry game in 2009 before winning last season in a 51-48 game that was one of the best in the conference all season and Brennan Clay helped along in that game and this season he has six touchdowns and is leading the team in yards. Trevor Knight had over 100 yards rushing against Iowa State a couple weeks ago and the team is coming in after a nice win on the road against the Kansas State and now they will play their final game of the season against OSU.
The Sooners come in ranked 21st in points against with 21 per game and they are scoring just over 30 points per contest and they are ranked 15th in rushing yards per game with over 240 per contest and they will need to rely on that to defeat the Cowboys. The team started the season 5-0 before losing to the Longhorns and the team rebounded with wins over Kansas and Texas Tech, but then they lost to Baylor on the road and now after a win over ISU and a toad game against the Wildcats they again will play on the road against OSU.
OK State has been high powered this season with over 40 points per game and the defense has been coming through with just 18 points allowed per game. The team has now won seven games in a row since losing to West Virginia back in September and that came after a 3-0 start.This is a sort of de facto playoff game for the Big 12 and the matchup starts at 12 pm noon on ABC.
