A year after going just 2-7, No. 9 Baylor is back at the top of the Big 12. And the Bears cost No. 5 Oklahoma State a potential College Football Playoff berth in the process.
The Big 12 title game was a wild, turnover-filled affair, but it was Dave Aranda’s Bears that emerged with a 21-16 victory at AT&T Stadium in Arlington to win the program’s first outright Big 12 championship since 2013.
It was the Baylor defense and the play of redshirt freshman quarterback Blake Shapen that made the difference.