For the winner, it also will be the chance to keep its slim College Football Playoff hopes alive.
Oklahoma has won 25 of the 28 games played between the two schools, but all three of the Baylor wins have come since the 2011 season, and two of the three victories over the Sooners were in Waco (2011 and 2013).
Baylor head coach Matt Rhule, who came from the same role at Temple, has done an outstanding job in just three seasons in Waco. The Bears were 1-11 in Rhule’s first season at Baylor in 2017. Last season, he led the Bears to a six-game improvement over the year before, finishing with a record of 7-6, including a trip to the Texas Bowl and a 45-38 victory over Vanderbilt.