Oklahoma State blocked Isaiah Hankins’ 39-yard field goal as time expired at the end of the first half. “There’s no question they’re a very good defense,” Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy said. But the Bears’ defense helped them considerably with three first-half interceptions (they ended up with four in the game). Shapen completed his first 17 passes of the game - a Big 12 record - and threw three touchdowns to help the Bears build a 21-6 lead. Baylor had its first Big 12 Championship since it shared the regular-season title with TCU in 2014.īaylor needed every last square inch of what it received from its defense, because Oklahoma State’s defense flat shut the Bears down in the final 30 minutes. Insanity ensued, especially after quarterback Blake Shapen lunged for a yard to run out the clock. “I saw (Jackson) sprint out toward the sideline and saw Jairon run him and down, and he made plays all day. “We figured they would run, so we ran a run blitz and things got clogged up in the middle,” Bernard said. It was just … enough.īernard had a view of what happened from the end zone, as he was unable to make a play because of the design of the play Oklahoma State called. McVea caught up to him and pushed him out of bounds about a quarter-yard short of the pylon. There was clean, open field and McVea was the only thing keeping Jackson from winning the game. Sanders handed off to Jackson, who swept to the left side. The Cowboys had no choice but to go for it this time. Sanders ran a bootleg pass to Jaden Bray on third down, but Pitre broke that up too. We weren’t going to let them walk in,” Baylor linebacker Terrel Bernard said. OSU wanted to leave as little time as possible for Baylor to answer, assuming the Cowboys scored. Since neither team had a time out, the Cowboys weren’t in a hurry. On second down, Jalen Pitre stuffed Jackson for no gain. On first down, Baylor’s JT Woods and Dillon Doyle held OSU running back Dezmon Jackson to a yard. It looked almost certain the Cowboys would score, but they couldn’t settle for a field goal, as they had on the Bears’ two previous goal-line stands. Quarterback Spencer Sanders and the Cowboys found a way to navigate nearly the entire field, without any timeouts, to get to the Bears’ 2-yard line inside of a minute. Oklahoma State (11-2) took over at their own 10-yard line with 3:23 left and down 21-16. Leading up to McVea’s game-saving play, the Bears put together their third goal-line stand of the game. McVea gave Aranda and the Bears (11-2) something to feel great about as they won the Big 12 Championship game for the first time. You see that ball rolling out and you seem him on the edge and you feel good about it.” “He’s going to do it right, every time, with a smile on his face. “We all have people like that,” Aranda said. McVea is the same guy who goes full-speed during a Monday practice in shells and helmets when Aranda and the staff have to struggle to get most of the team to NOT treat that practice like a walkthrough. Baylor head coach Dave Aranda said he wasn’t surprised it was McVea making the play. To his coaches and teammates he may be the hardest-working player on the entire team. To the outside world, he wasn’t a known name - until Saturday. McVea, a sixth-year senior safety, walked onto the program and he didn’t get a scholarship until former head coach Matt Rhule put him on scholarship in the spring of 2019. “Not really, but I saw the ref signal not a touchdown and after that I was pretty happy.”
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