No. 11 OK State rallies to beat No. 20 Texas in wild affair
Spencer Sanders threw for 391 yards and hit Bryson Green on the game-winning, 41-yard touchdown pass with 3:09 to play as 11th-ranked Oklahoma State came from behind to beat No. 20 Texas 41-34 on Saturday afternoon in a key Big 12 Conference game in Stillwater, Okla.
Oklahoma State (6-1, 3-1 Big 12) held the Longhorns to just three points after halftime in charging back from a two-touchdown deficit late in the second quarter. The Cowboys limited Texas to 172 yards in the second half.
Sanders was 34-for-57 passing with two touchdowns and an interception while also running for 43 yards. Green had five catches for 133 yards and Dominic Richardson racked up three rushing scores for Oklahoma State.
Visiting Texas committed 14 penalties for 119 yards while Oklahoma State was not assessed a penalty in the game.
The Cowboys rallied to tie the game at 34-34 on Sanders’ 10-yard TD pass to Brennan Presley with 9:54 to play. After the Longhorns’ Bert Auburn missed a 46-yard field goal with 4:57 left, Oklahoma State took charge at its own 28 and drove to the winning Sanders-to-Green TD throw.
Texas had a final chance, but Quinn Ewers was intercepted by Kendal Daniels at the Oklahoma State 11-yard line with eight seconds remaining.
Bijan Robinson ran for 140 yards on 24 carries and caught a 41-yard scoring pass for Texas (5-3, 3-2), which had a three-game win streak snapped. Ewers was just 19-for-49 passing for 319 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions.
Oklahoma State scored first on a Tanner Brown 48-yard field goal, after which the Longhorns got a 42-yard touchdown run from Robinson. The Cowboys answered with Richardson’s 4-yard scoring run, but then Texas got an Ewers-to-Xavier Worthy 12-yard TD catch to retake the lead at 14-10 in a wild opening quarter.
Ewers threw to a wide-open Robinson for a 41-yard score to push the Texas lead to 21-10 before Richardson added his second scoring run of the game, this one from 1 yard, to bring the Cowboys within 21-17.
Auburn kicked a 37-yard field goal for the Longhorns with 8:04 to go in the second quarter. Roschon Johnson added to the Texas lead with a 52-yard touchdown run, but the Cowboys responded with a 2-yard TD rush by Richardson to bring Oklahoma State to within seven points at the break, 31-24.
–Field Level Media
