No. 12 Oklahoma has scant time to lick their wounds after being upset at Baylor, 27-14, Saturday.

The loss put a huge dent in the previously unbeaten Sooners’ hopes for a spot in the College Football Playoff but it did leave them in charge of their own destiny in terms of making the Big 12 Championship game. OU sits atop league standings along with Oklahoma State.

Oklahoma (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) hosts Iowa State for its final home regular season contest Nov. 20 at 11 a.m. on Fox. If OU beats Iowa State and then wins a road game at No. 9 OSU in the regular season finale, OU is in the title game.

However, OSU and Baylor win both of their final two games and OU loses to OSU, the Sooner streak of six straight Big 12 championships could come to a halt because they would be tied with Baylor with two Big 12 losses and Baylor wins that tiebreaker because they beat OU.

And if OU loses to Iowa State but beats OSU and Baylor wins twice, there could be a three-way tie with OU, OSU and Baylor – all with three losses. In that scenario, OU beat OSU, OSU beat Baylor and Baylor beat OU. Then margin of victory could come into play.

OSU has Texas Tech this Saturday and then OU. Baylor plays at Kansas State Saturday and finishes with Texas Tech on November 27.

Regardless, OU must play an Iowa State team that was highly ranked in the preseason but has fallen on hard times.

This year, the Cyclones (6-5)  have lost to then-No Iowa, Baylor, West Virginia and Texas Tech. Last season, ISU was upset by Louisiana last year but rebounded to go 8-1 in the Big 12 – including a 37-30 upset of No. 18 Oklahoma. OU got their revenge with a 27-21 victory in the Big 12 Championship.

ISU beat Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl, with a veteran team returning, hopes were running high in Ames. ISU was upset at Texas Tech, 38-41, last Saturday and that dashed any hopes of returning to the Big 12 Championship.

“We’ll have to see how we respond,” ISU coach Matt Campbell said. “I think that’s one thing I really appreciate about our senior class is they’ve had the ability to persevere through hard and persevere through tough. We’ll have to follow our leaders the way we have since the start of November, and I have complete faith in those guys.”

For Oklahoma, everything that could go wrong did go wrong against Baylor as Oklahoma’s 17-game winning streak – the longest active streak in the nation –  came to an end.

OU’s 14 points scored were its fewest since OU lost to Clemson 6-40 in the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl.

Before Saturday, the Sooners had scored at least 30 points in 35 consecutive true road games, which was the longest streak nationally since at least 1980.

This was the first time in his 35-game career that OU kicker Gabe Brkic missed two field goals.

This was Oklahoma’s first November loss since the 2014 season. OU entered the day having won 23 straight November games (11 contests against teams ranked in the AP Top 25). OU’s last November loss prior to today was a 2014 defeat to Baylor in Norman.

“They played better than we did,” said OU coach Lincoln Riley.

In the second half, Riley pulled freshman quarterback Caleb Williams and inserted Spencer Rattler.

“We were just a little stale, honestly,” Riley said. “We had a little stretch there in the second quarter, again in the third quarter, where we had a few things there that [Williams] missed that he just typically doesn’t miss. Spencer, had a good week. So I went with Spencer. Again, you’ve got to make those decisions in the heat of the moment. At that point, I felt like it was the right decision.”

Rattler went 4-of-6 for 36 yards on two drives. Both drives ended with Rattler being sacked on third down.

“It wasn’t good. We didn’t execute plays there at the beginning. Defense again did a phenomenal job shutting it down there. We were giving them short fields. Just a tremendous job defensively,” Riley said.

“They didn’t have a whole lot of momentum going there and you give them kind of a freebie, a little bit of a drive, that can get an offense going. It’s disappointing, it is, just because, again, we felt the team was good at half, team was excited, they were ready to play, and to go out there and start that way — it’s not the reason we lost the game but obviously going and establishing that second-half momentum can make a big difference, especially when you’re on the road, and we had our opportunity to do it and then didn’t get that done.”

Riley said his team is still optimistic.

“Still a whole lot left for this football team,” Riley said. “That’s the advantage of winning your first nine games is you do set yourself up to be able to overcome something like this, so [I’m] disappointed, obviously, that we have to overcome it, but it is what it is. So we’ll bounce back like we always do and like we fully expect to.”