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Kansas City wins the Super Bowl

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Quarterback Patrick Mahones was named Most Valuable Player Sunday after he engineered a comeback as the Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisco, 31-20, in Super  Bowl LIV. The last time the Chiefs won the Super Bowl was 50 years ago. Mahomes, who played for Texas Tech, hit 26 of 42 pass attempts for 286 yards….

Cowboys edged by Texas A&M

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Oklahoma State was edged 24-21 in the Texas Bowl by a Texas A&M team that played one of the toughest schedules in the nation. “Played a good football team in the Bowl, right? They’re a good team,” Gundy said after the game. “I said this early, and I’ll say it again. They lost to No….

Lopsided loss to LSU ends an otherwise good OU campaign

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An otherwise successful 2019 season went sour quickly as No. 4 Oklahoma was overcome by No. 1 LSU, 63-28, in Atlanta in a College Football Playoff semifinal. The Sooners have won five Big 12 Championships in a row but this is the fourth time (in those same five years) that Oklahoma has advanced to the…

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Oklahoma almost had three Heisman winners in a row

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Two out of three isn’t bad. LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was the runaway winner of the Heisman Trophy Saturday night but Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts was second in points. Burrow got 2,608 points while Hurts was a distant second with 762 points. Justin Fields was third with 747 points and Chase Young was fourth with…

Gundy: A&M had a tough slate

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Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy had high praise for Texas A&M, a team that won only two more games than they lost this season. OSU faces A&M in the Texas Bowl with a kickoff set for 5:45 p.m. on Dec. 27 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. “I think they are the best 7-5 team…

OSU vs. Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl Dec. 27

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Oklahoma State will play a familiar opponent – Texas A&M – in the Texas Bowl at 5:45 p.m. December 27 in NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Oklahoma State and Texas played each other every year as members of the Big 12 Conference from 1996-2011. The Cowboys won each of the final four meetings between the…

Rematch: Round 2 between OU/Baylor

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No. 6 Oklahoma (11-1, 8-1 in the Big 12) dispatched in-state rival Oklahoma State Saturday, setting up a rematch with No. 8 Baylor at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Big 12 Championship game in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on ABC. In a cold, windy night, the Sooners ground out a 34-14 victory over OSU…

Texas fires assistants

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After a disappointing 7-5 regular season, Texas coach Tom Herman has fired defensive coordinator Todd Orlando and two other assistants. Offensive coordinator Tim Beck has been demoted to quarterback coach. Receivers coach Drew Mehringer and inside receivers coach Corby Meekins were fired. The three fired coaches had been with Herman for three years at Texas…

OSU awaits bowl invitation

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After losing to Bedlam rival Oklahoma, 16-34, on a blustery wind-swept Saturday night in Stillwater, the Oklahoma State Cowboys will find out this weekend where they will be headed for a bowl and who they will play. ESPN.com is projecting that Oklahoma State (8-4 overall, 5-4 in the Big 12) will face Notre Dame in…

Will Montgomery return in ‘20?

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KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina – This year, we decided to spend Thanksgiving in North Carolina, at my mother-in-law’s. Like for many Americans, that meant the typical three F’s were involved; family, food and football. Spending time with family is always good, but this year there was someone obviously absent from our dinner table. It was an…