Yesterday was a banner day for the college football world, in the span of about 4 hours the BCS picture completely changed. SEC back in title talks and undefeated Notre Dame is going to be the No. 1 team in the land. *Insert the Mayans were right comment*

In what was the craziest time slot of the season, the Oklahoma Sooners scraped by the West Virginia Mountaineers, 50-49. The Baylor Bears stomped any chances Collin Klein had at a Heisman or the Kansas State Wildcats had at going to Miami. Stanford took the Oregon Ducks into over-time and the curse of the kickers came out and the Cardinal walked away with the win.

Saturday, the Sooners couldn’t stop WVU’s Tavon Austin and the ‘Eers couldn’t stop Landry Jones. Austin, who is the Mountaineers WR, lined up as a RB and completely shredded the Oklahoma defense. He had over 400+ all-purpose yards. Landry Jones also had a stellar night, with 550+ yards, 5 touchdowns and 1 interception. He led the Sooners to a game-winning touchdown with about a min left on the clock, and the time remaining after wasn’t enough for the Mountaineers to retaliate. Both teams combined for over 1400 yards and Oklahoma allowed a staggering 778 yards on offense. If you know anything about me, you know that I love defensive, smash mouth football. This was none of that. If anything, defensive coordinator, Mike Stoops hopefully had nightmares of it last night. The Sooners have Bedlam coming this week and the Pokes would love nothing more than let their running game roam free all over Owen Field.

The chaos wasn’t really the Sooner game, it was the Baylor/Kansas State game. Baylor, who has the worst defense in the country performed a miracle last night. The Bears didn’t even give the Wildcats a chance, beating them on both sides of the ball all night long. The final beatdown ended up being 52-24.

With Baylor beating the Wildcats, the door to the National Championship game just swung wide open. And the Big XII? That’s completely up for grabs now, too.

If you aren’t a college football fan, why? This game changes every single week and is so unpredictable. And if you have a voodoo doll that represents the SEC and thought maybe you reversed their luck? Good try, good effort. Don’t ever count them out.

Sterling Shepard against FAMU in week 2

In one of the most highly anticipated games of Saturday, the Oklahoma Sooners hosted the Kansas State Wildcats in what ended up resulting in a 24-19 Sooner loss.

The Sooners came out looking strong…until they reached the red zone, where things started going down hill. If one were to not have seen any of the game and looked just at the stats, it may appear that Jones had an ok game: nearly 300 yards and only one interception. If you actually watched the game, you know those numbers are quite deceiving. Jones had two major mistakes both resulting in Kansas State touchdowns.

The most costly and boneheaded of them all? A fumble near the Sooner goal line which resulted in a quick 6 for the Wildcats. The interception was thrown in the second half, when the Sooners had the lead 13-10. The pick gave the Wildcats great field position and Wildcat QB Collin Klein marched right down the field and handled business.

Collin Klein looked great, as expected. The Sooner defense was able to contain him for most of the game, until the 4th quarter, where he became clutch and deserved his nickname, Optimus Klein.

Sterling Shepard was the most outstanding on offense by a long shot. He made plays when the ball was thrown his direction and at one point leaped completely over a standing opposing player to gain yards. If any Sooner should make the highlight reel for week 4, it should be him.

On the defense, the rush d was an issue, allowing 209 yards, 130 of those going to tailback John Hubert. But as a whole the defense was the better unit than the offense on Saturday. The defense allowed the Sooners to stay in the game as long as they did. So if your fingers are pointed in that direction, you may need to re-watch the game.

The game had a weird feeling from the start and Landry Jones had a weird game. It’s one of those unexplained situations where everyone is left scratching their heads at his performance. There is still a lot of work to be done and it needs to happen soon. The season is a quarter of the way over. Already. Sigh.

The Sooners are going into week 5 with a bye before returning to conference play against Texas Tech.

The Oklahoma Sooners are faced with their biggest challenge of the season so far with the Kansas State Wildcats. In a prime time showdown, will the Sooners be able to handle the pressure?

The Sooners blasted the Wildcats last season in Manhattan, but they to remember one thing going in: This is another year.

One of main things the Sooners need to focus on? This is 2012.

Both teams are entering the game with a lot of question marks. Neither team has played anyone of substance yet, though the Wildcats did face the Miami Hurricanes in week 2 and steam-rolled them 52-13. Unfortunately, beating Miami isn’t saying much since the state of football in Miami right now is on dumpster fire status. The Wildcats struggled last Saturday, surprisingly, against North Texas. They had issues getting their run game established, which is their main point of attack. The rushed for a season low, 134 yards, when normally they are averaging 252 ypg.

Wildcats QB Collin Klein has been the buzz player so far going into this week and rightfully so. He has 609 yards in the air and 210 rushing yards after their first three games. RB John Hubert has 296 yards and leads the team in rushing while averaging 6.9 yards per carry.

Another major threat for the Wildcats is Tyler Lockett. Lockett has been outstanding for the Wildcats special teams and offense. He is a deep threat at wide receiver and even more deadly as a their kick-off returner. Another double threat to watch out for is WR Tremaine Thompson. He has made quite a bit of noise at wide out and on special teams.

Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder is fully aware of what is at stake for both teams. Snyder, in my opinion, is one of the greatest minds in college football. He molds one and two star athletes to compete with the teams who are loaded with the three and four.

Kansas State was not a great program before he arrived; he comes in and takes it over and completely turns it around. He retired, and they unfortunately hired Ron Prince to take over and quickly run them into the ground and then begged Snyder to come back out of retirement. Snyder has also been a mentor and friend to Bob Stoops for many years, going back to Stoops’ first coaching job as an assistant at Kansas State.

Snyder this week on the match-up:

(Our) secondary, with the exception of David Garrett, is virtually the same. That is good news. The bad news is that they got torched a year ago. Hopefully the experience has worked in their favor.

Snyder hasn’t had the best of luck in Norman over the last several years. The last time they faced Jones there, he completed 70 percent of his passes, had 4 touchdowns and 294 yards without Kansas State touching him once.

The Sooners offensive line has been suspect so far this season, and Kansas State will be the best defense they have faced. Giving Jones time and the pass protection will be key. They have been able to create holes for the RBs, but the Wildcats secondary is a little shakey, so I would expect Jones to attempt to air most of the balls out; at least to start out with.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Sooners get Casey Walker back and with the Wildcats running game, it will be a great boost. Walker has been back on the team after taking personal time off for the last two weeks. Safety Tony Jefferson has been practicing all week, as expected, and will be starting Saturday after spraining an ankle two weeks ago against FAMU.

The Sooners secondary has looked good so far and looks better and more focused than they did last season. Again, this has been against teams that have not been up to par, but the attitude has been there both mentally and physically. The rush defense has showed improvement, but against a run-heavy team they will need to be virtually mistake free.

The main key to winning the game for the Sooners has to be not starting out slow. Jones has the reputation of getting in his groove later in the game and against this team, it can’t happen. Three and outs will not cut it when Klein is sitting on the sidelines itching to come back in and continue on his Heisman-worthy stats.

This is going to be an evenly matched game if both teams come out on both cylinders. Mistakes on either side and the game could go either way. I give the slight advantage to the Sooners being at home winning 42 out of 43 of the their last home games. Texas Tech proved last season it can be done, and Kansas State is just the team to pull the upset.

Don’t ever make the Sooners angry. Angry Sooners hang half a hundred on the road, to a higher ranked team. Oklahoma rolled into Manhattan, Kansas today to take on the the undefeated Wildcats on their homecoming weekend. Both teams came in with a lot to prove. The Sooners surpassed that.

The Sooners team-only meeting earlier this week worked, apparently.

Oklahoma came out early with a 14-0 lead but let Kansas State jump right back in with 2 unanswered touchdowns and a field goal. A huge loss for the Sooners was the loss of RB Dom Whaley. He went out in the first play of the game with a broken ankle, and will miss the rest of the season according to sources.

Half time, the Sooners led the Wildcats 24-17. It was lights out the second half for Oklahoma. They held Kansas State to no points, and the defense was all over Kansas State QB Collin Klein, sacking him seven times. Landry Jones had a record breaking night, being the first QB in Oklahoma history to have over 500 yards per game. The Sooners ended up with an amazing 690 yards on offense and held Kansas State to only 240.

Kansas State fans got classy for a bit during the third quarter starting a “F*ck OU” chant from what they thought was an intentional foot stomping of Klein by Frank Alexander. Which was NOT intentional.

The Sooners scored on six straight possessions during the second half, and Kansas State was unable to recover, only having 32  yards the entire half. Sooner WR Ryan Broyles took over as the all-time receiving leader in the Big XII, with 4499 yards. Jaz Reynolds also had an outstanding game, with two amazing touchdown catches.

The highlights for the night for Kansas State was two interceptions by Nigel Malone and Collin Klein’s two rushing touchdowns and 92 yards.

Official game stats from SoonerSports.com

Kansas State’s QB Collin Klein said about the game:

We knew what kind of team they were coming in, It wasn’t a surprise, but it was frustrating, not being able to execute like we were. We were struggling.

The Sooners went in to Manhattan focused and determined to not make this 2 in a row. The left leaving the Wildcats with their first loss of the season and regaining that Sooner momentum back. You have to hand it to Kansas State this season, though. They were picked as No. 8 in the Big XII and were not expected to be anywhere near the Top 10 in the BCS.

Now the lone undefeated team in the Big XII is Oklahoma State, who plays Kansas State next Saturday. The Sooners wont face the Cowboys until December 3.

Up next on the Sooners plate: Texas A&M in Norman.

The Sooners are travelling up to Manhattan, Kansas this weekend to take on the Kansas State Wildcats, in hopes to regain a little momentum after the disappointing loss to Texas Tech last Saturday night.

Kansas State Head Coach, Bill Snyder with the Wildcat mascot

Kansas State comes into the game unbeaten and ranked No. 11 in the current BCS standings. Oklahoma has not had 2 losses in a row during the regular Big XII season play for 13 years, so the stakes are high for both teams.

If the Wildcats win, it will be the first time since the notorious 2003 championship game; where even though Oklahoma lost, they still got to play for the National Championship.

Head Wildcat coach, Bill Snyder is fully aware of the magnitude of the game, and knows his players are, too:

They all understand the significance of the ballgame and the tremendous team that we are playing, but how you prepare does not or should not really change.

Even though Kansas State is undefeated, the Wildcats offense is still one of the lowest-rated in the Big XII, averaging 354 yards per game and more than half of that has been rushing yards. Their quarterback, Collin Klein, is the top rusher on the team with 670 yards so far. His 14 rushing touchdowns lead the Big XII, and is at 59 percent passing with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Last week against Kansas he had 4 touchdowns for 92 yards and only throwing for 195 yards and was 12 of 19. Needless to say, Klein is their offensive threat. Contain Klein, control the game.

Bob Stoops was vocal about what his team needed to do in his press conference earlier this week:

Kansas State will beat the living heck out of us if we don’t make improvement, along with anyone else we’re going to play. If this doesn’t show you that, then you’re pretty unrealistic.

But if we can show some character and make some improvements from this (loss), who knows what can happen?

Sooner quarterback, Landry Jones is facing one of the best defenses in the conference Saturday and comes in with a 64 percent completion rate and 2589 yards with 21 touchdowns. Though the Kansas State defense has given up 671 yards in the last two games, and Oklahoma is one of the more complete offenses they have faced so far this season.

As usual, Coach Stoops has been tight-lipped on who will be returning this week from the injury list. Though it has been said that Tom Wort has been practicing and Jamell Fleming will probably be a go Saturday. The return of Wort will really help the defense given that the Wildcats run the ball quite frequently. We saw how much both are an impact last Saturday, especially with the play of the CB’s without Fleming. RB Dom Whaley should return after suffering from the flu in the last game, which sidelined him. That will definitely add a boost back to the ground game.

The Sooners have to get the focus back in their play and whatever issues are going on, need to be contained. The team had a players only meeting Monday, so let’s see what changes are made Saturday.

We’ve just got to learn from it. Learn from a loss and move on and if we don’t get better from it, then we’ll repeat this process again and we’ll lose to another team. If we learn from it, move on and start playing better football, we’ll be all right. -Landry Jones

The game is set to kickoff at 2:30 CST on ABC.