Extra points for Baylor and fan storming draw Oklahoma ire

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WACO, Texas (AP) — — Baylor fans had already swarmed the tract and Oklahoma players had already gone to the locker room.

Except the crippled wasn’t rather implicit and the 18th-ranked Bears weren’t done scoring, adjacent with no uncertainty astir the result Saturday against the fourth-ranked Sooners, whose nation-best 17-game winning streak came to an extremity successful the 27-14 loss.

Baylor manager Dave Aranda said helium was reasoning astir potential tiebreakers and the constituent differential that could travel into play for a spot successful the Big 12 title game successful 3 weeks. So helium called timeout, and Isaiah Hankins kicked a 32-yard tract extremity connected the last play.

That footwear came aft respective minutes to wide the field, immoderate heated discussions betwixt Oklahoma manager Lincoln Riley and the officials, and getting 11 of his players backmost retired of the locker room.

“At the extremity of the day, doing it with people is important to me, and astatine the extremity of the day, that’s wherefore we decided to bring 11 guys out, adjacent though heavy down I damn definite didn’t privation to,” Riley said.

Aranda said coaches had talked astir imaginable tiebreakers for Baylor (7-2, 5-2 Big 12, CFP No. 18) earlier successful the week, though that didn’t truly travel up again until Kennedy Brooks scored connected a 1-yard TD tally for Oklahoma (9-1, 6-1, CFP No. 8) with 2:26 near to marque it 24-14 — the aforesaid people of Baylor’s nonaccomplishment astatine No. 10 Oklahoma State.

“When that happened, we wanted to get backmost connected the scoreboard to assistance with that differential,” Aranda said, portion knowing however that last-play tract extremity could beryllium interpreted otherwise by the Sooners.

“I deliberation they’re not blessed with it,” helium said. Riley said helium was acrophobic astir the information of his players, since Baylor students were streaming retired of the stands from down the Oklahoma bench.

Many of them were inactive crammed connected the sideline for the kick. “I cognize wherefore Dave tried to footwear tract goal. I don’t hold with it,” Riley said. “I inactive deliberation supra each else, there’s a a codification of sportsmanship that I judge in, I wouldn’t person done it. But that’s his decision, that’s his shot team. How the officials don’t springiness us, enforce a 15-yard punishment erstwhile you’ve astir apt got 5,000 radical connected the tract is unbelievable to me.”

Riley said helium got nary mentation connected wherefore determination was nary penalty.

Aranda, who spoke lone precise concisely with Riley connected the tract aft the crippled successful the mob of people, said helium planned to speech again soon with the Oklahoma manager helium considers a friend.

Hankins had really made a 42-yard tract extremity with 1:27 left, but Baylor took those points disconnected the committee aft a idiosyncratic foul punishment for an automatic archetypal down that moved the shot to the Oklahoma 12.

Baylor past kneeled doubly earlier calling the past timeout, but not earlier the gold-clad fans were already storming the field.

They got to bash it again aft the crippled was truly over.

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