Sooners and Bears Highlight Weekly College Football; New playoff picks; Top 25

It was a very good week for Baylor and Oklahoma in big boy Big 12 football Saturday. The Sooners, with thanks to Stephen Parker and his nice volleyball block at the goal line on a two-point conversion with little time on the clock, nipped a game TCU squad 30-29 in Norman.  Baylor was marvelous in their 45-35 beating of Oklahoma State, giving the Bears their first significant win of the season.

Iowa State’s head coach made a fatal mistake and now Paul Rhoades is looking for a new job.  A terrible coaching decision, running the ball when a couple of “knees” win you a ball game.  That was a decision that gets you fired.  The Cyclones now go on the open market to find a diamond in the rough.  Good luck.  As for Kansas, poor Kansas as Texas Tech pasted the hapless Jayhawks.

OU/TCU:  Gary Patterson is my kind of coach. His decision to go for the win after their final touchdown with little left on the clock was ballsy.  I remember back in the day when Florida State’s Bobby Bowden brought his team to Norman, OK to face the Sooners, a national power at the time.  Bowden had just come from West Virginia and the Seminoles played the Sooners to a one point game with little time on the clock.  The Noles had just scored and Bowden decided to go for the win and not kick the extra point for a sure tie. There were no overtimes in college football at the time.  Bowden’s two point conversion failed and OU eked out a one point win.  After the game Bowden wanted no talk of moral victory and told the press that. Same with Patterson. He saw that it was a good time to win the game on the two-point conversion and it was there for the taking.  Except for the great play by OU’s Parker, OU loses.  TCU is a powerful team, a powerful program with a winner as a coach.  As for OU, they went into a shell in the 2nd half when Baker Mayfield went down by a dirty play by a TCU defender and basically tried to run out the final two quarters.  Give it up to Samaji Perine for his close to 200 yards rushing and his last long score.  Perine is a money back.

Best Team Performance of the Week:  Michigan State’s defense

Worse Team Performance of the Week:  Florida’s offense or lack of

Best Individual Performance of the Week:  Stephen Parker, Oklahoma

OU/TCU highlights from Saturday (above)

Fred’s Top 25

1. Alabama

2. Clemson

3. Oklahoma

4. Baylor

5. Michigan State

6. Notre Dame

7. Iowa

8. Ohio State

9. TCU

10. Oklahoma State

11. North Carolina

12. Florida State

13. Navy

14. Stanford

15. Washington State

16. Michigan

17. Northwestern

18. Oregon

19. Temple

20. Florida

21. Mississippi State

22. Arkansas

23. Toledo

24. Ole Miss

25. Houston

Final Four Playoffs

Alabama vs Michigan State and Clemson vs Oklahoma

First Out:  Notre Dame; Second out:  Ohio State;  Third out:  Baylor

Top Photo Credit:  Stephen Parker makes the play of the game against TCU Saturday night on Owen Field in Norman, OK as OU wins 30-29.  https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-baker-mayfield-bob-stoops-samaje-perine-tcu-texas-christian-horned-frogs