ARLINGTON, Texas -- In the end, really, we should have seen this coming. There really could be only one way that this Oklahoma team would win the Big 12 Championship Game.
The Sooners somehow managed to dominate Baylor on Saturday, yet need overtime to beat them, to stop the Bears snap after snap until, on consecutive plays in the fourth quarter, Baylor struck back with a quarterback who had thrown three passes all season.
For a Sooner team that had trouble putting together 60 minutes of error-free football down the homestretch, the 30-23 overtime victory at AT&T Stadium displayed the 2019 season in miniature: stretches of brilliance interspersed with turnovers and defensive lapses that kept games closer than they should have been.