The No. 6 Oklahoma Sooners provided a major boost to their College Football Playoff resume Saturday with a 30-23 overtime victory over the No. 7 Baylor Bears in the 2019 Big 12 Championship Game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Led by quarterback Jalen Hurts, a Heisman Trophy candidate, the Sooners have compiled a 12-1 record with their only loss coming to the Kansas State Wildcats in October. Winning the Big 12 title improves their chances of a CFP berth to 95 percent while awaiting the day's other results, per FiveThirtyEight.
Baylor entered the contest with a chance to avenge its sole loss of the campaign, a three-point defeat by OU in November, which would have likely earned the Bears a spot in college football's final four.