News from Missouri
"The wrong play was signaled in to Chase Daniel.
He was running a different play than everyone else," said
coach Gary Pinkel, whose No. 11 Tigers went into...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
And on Saturday night, with MU facing the
ultimate test in one of the hardest places to play
in the nation at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, the message
came in...
Columbia Missourian
Missouri beat itself. There's no other way to say it.
However, MU did show that it can play with a top team
like Oklahoma, and Missouri might still be the...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Neither
did any other Tiger on the field, except quarterback
Chase Daniel, who saw the ball drop to the turf, then
get scooped up by Oklahoma linebacker...
Kansas City Star
The college football pundits won't be talking
about Daniel after Saturday's game. The boy from
Oklahoma City beat out Daniel in this matchup...
Columbia Missourian
These Missouri Tigers are a different breed entirely.
So what if there's a cynical world out there that isn't
quite sure what to make of 11th-ranked Mizzou's...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There's nothing to second-guess. Gary Pinkel
and his staff put together a game plan good enough
to beat Oklahoma, good enough to catapult the Missouri...
Kansas City Star
With ESPN's College GameDay in town, Oklahoma
Sooner fans and visiting Missouri Tiger fans wanted
to let people know what was on their minds. And by...
Columbia Missourian
If Missouri can play with Oklahoma in Norman, the Tigers
can play with anybody in the Big 12. Missouri had four
turnovers by game's end -- three...
Kansas City Star
Jeremy Maclin could have been an Oklahoma Sooner. Instead,
he played a starring role in his first game against
them. Missouri's redshirt freshman all-purpose...
Columbia Tribune
If it weren't for two reverses by Maclin that constituted
the Tigers' first two touchdowns, gadget plays could
be blamed for costing MU the game. A...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Replay reversed two plays in the first half that had
the sellout crowd grumbling. The first came when Oklahoma
was at first awarded a TD when receiver...
Kansas City Star
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Around the Big 12
It's just a little phase we're going through,
this Bill Callahan era at Nebraska. It'll be
over soon. At least that's how it felt Saturday.
Never before, in fact, has...
Lincoln Journal Star
It turned out to be a check neither Lane nor his teammates
could cash Saturday as the Raiders ran away with a
35-7 win over Texas A&M in front of...
Houston Chronicle
The Kansas defenders already knew this would be a long
day. They knew that from watching film of their games
with Baylor last year when the Bears shredded...
Topeka Capital-Journal
Stunned. Hurting. Shocked. Those were only some of
the emotions swirling around Nebraska after an eye-opening
45-14 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday...
Grand Island Independent
But we know it's really, really bad when announcers
on the Husker Sports Network become vocally disgruntled.
There were words like “despicable...
Lincoln Journal Star
You hate to get into a rut of changing coaches every
three or four years, but that might be what the Husker
program is now looking at doing. You just can't help...
Grand Island Independent
Some fans in the South Stadium had already unfurled
a banner with a suggestion to Nebraska's athletic
director: Surrender, Steve Pederson. Later, Savage...
Lincoln Journal Star
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National Coverage
The Sooners did their thing better than the Tigers,
which is what mattered in front of 85,041 fans at Gaylord
Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Missouri coach...
ESPN
With LSU and California both losing Saturday, we now
project Ohio State to finish the season undefeated
and Oklahoma to move up to No. 2 by the end of the...
CBS SportsLine
It represented the optimism that sixth-ranked Oklahoma
could still make the Bowl Championship Series title
game, which seemed unlikely two weeks ago after the...
New York Times
Oklahoma, left for dead after losing to Colorado, is
right in the thick of things, and Kansas has yet to
lose (and somehow avoids the Sooners, Texas and the
Red...
Fan Nation
There are a million reasons Oklahoma is
back in the national championship hunt. Two more emerged
on Saturday thanks to Kentucky and Oregon State. But...
CBS SportsLine
Oklahoma News
Big game. Big setting. Big opportunity. It took awhile,
but when they needed to, the Oklahoma Sooners came
up big. OU's defense, pushed to the limit by a high...
Tulsa World
Oklahoma sophomore Auston English has helped the Sooners
forget about their preseason concerns over a lack of
depth at defensive end. English continued his...
Dallas Morning News
The Sooners'
national title hopes have a much stronger heartbeat
than just two weeks ago, thanks to Kentucky's 43-37
upset over top-ranked LSU in...
The Oklahoman
The noise OU's made since that fourth-quarter fadeout
and last-play loss to the Buffaloes speaks volumes.
A week after a hit-me-with-your-best-shot victory over...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
One of the loudest cheers Saturday had nothing to do
with Oklahoma or Missouri. With 3:46 remaining in the
first half, seemingly half of the 85,041 fans discovered...
Tulsa World
Bob Stoops clearly wasn't happy upon entering
the Big Red Room Saturday night. Oklahoma had just
beaten Missouri 41-31 but he wasn't taking solace
in much...
Norman Transcript
"Wow. Good grief. Was that what the fans were
yelling about in the second half?" he said. No,
coach, that was No. 1 LSU's 43-37 overtime loss
to Kentucky, which...
Muskogee Phoenix
Oklahoma used its linebackers and safeties often in
coverage against the Tigers' complex spread attack.
Though Missouri's talented tight end tandem of Chase...
Dallas Morning News
It was one of the few tackles Oklahoma middle linebacker
Curtis Lofton didn't make Saturday -- he had 18 in
all -- but then there was no stop to make. No...
Tulsa World
With OU struggling in the running game, the Sooners
turned to Brown during a key fourth-quarter drive.
And the third-team running back delivered, carrying
four times for 26 yards, capping the march with...
The Oklahoman
Exhausted defensive end Auston English plopped into
a chair late Saturday night, considered Oklahoma's
41-31 victory over Missouri for a moment and said, "Yeah...
Tulsa World
Oklahoma had been in the position before. For the third
straight week, it was entering the fourth quarter with
the game on the line. It had failed against Colorado
two...
Norman Transcript
Somewhere in that running back haystack, third-string
needle Chris Brown stayed sharp. And on Saturday, the
Oklahoma sophomore came off the bench to add...
Tulsa World
Oklahoma prides itself on being able to run the ball
under just about any circumstances. Against nine-man
fronts or when a defense absolutely knows it's
coming...
Norman Transcript
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