Ewers Throws 4 TDs As No. 7 Texas Bids Farewell To Big 12 With 49-21 Title Win Over Oklahoma State

ARLINGTON, Texas: Quinn Ewers set a profession excessive by throwing for 452 yards with 4 touchdowns, a type of to 362-pound defensive sort out T’Vondre Sweat, and the seventh-ranked Texas Longhorns bid farewell to the Big 12 with a 49-21 win over No. 19 Oklahoma State within the convention championship sport Saturday.

The Southeastern Conference-bound Longhorns (12-1, No. 7 CFP) will go away the Big 12 with bookend titles, and 4 total. They additionally gained it within the league’s inaugural 1996 season, in 2005 once they had been final nationwide champs and in 2009 earlier than taking part in within the BCS nationwide championship sport.

Keilan Robinson tiptoed the sideline on a 57-yard run for the primary of his two touchdowns within the second half as Texas, the one staff to beat Alabama getting into Saturday, stayed in playoff competition with its remaining Big 12 trophy. But the Longhorns want loads of assist to make the four-team College Football Playoff discipline that shall be revealed Sunday, a yr earlier than it expands to 12 groups.

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Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark, who earlier than the season when addressing a crowd of Texas Tech supporters publicly rooted in opposition to the departing Longhorns, stated Saturday that Texas would “certainly deserve consideration” for a playoff spot and the league would strongly help it.

Texas followers booed Yormark and had been chanting “SEC!” through the trophy presentation.

With nationwide dashing chief Ollie Gordon II, Oklahoma State (9-4, No. 18 CFP) had gained seven of eight video games to get to its second Big 12 title sport in three years. But Texas scored on its first 4 possessions, going forward 28-7 on true freshman CJ Baxter’s 10-yard run early within the second quarter.

Cowboys quarterback Alan Bowman, who beforehand performed at Texas Tech and Michigan, was 22-of-38 passing for 250 yards with two of his three touchdowns going to Rashod Owens.

Gordon got here in averaging 137.1 yards per sport total — and 163 in convention video games. The sophomore completed with solely 34 yards on 13 carries in opposition to Sweat and the Big 12’s prime dashing protection, which allowed solely 85 yards on the bottom through the common season.

Ewers accomplished 35 of 46 passes and his touchdowns went to 4 completely different receivers, the largest one being the finalist for the Outland Trophy that goes to the nation’s prime lineman, offense or protection.

Sweat lined up as a decent finish from the Cowboys 2, and no defender adopted him into the tip zone, the place the senior corralled the go from Ewers in his stomach for his first profession catch, struck a Heisman Trophy pose and went on to a raucous celebration on the Texas sideline with the Longhorns up 21-7 late within the first quarter.

When Ewers obtained the wind knocked out of him and needed to go away the sector for one play late within the third quarter, he was changed by Maalik Murphy as a substitute of Arch Manning, the heralded recruit who every week earlier made his debut in a 50-point win over Texas Tech. Murphy and Manning each took snaps on the ultimate drive for Texas over the ultimate 6 1/2 minutes in opposition to Oklahoma State.

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Texas kicker Bert Auburn’s Big 12-record streak of 19 consecutive made discipline targets ended when he missed a 44-yard try within the remaining minute of the primary half. … The introduced attendance of 84,523 was a document for the Big 12 championship sport that was performed for the twenty second time, the final 9 at AT&T Stadium, dwelling of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, the place it’s going to stay till not less than 2031.

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