The legend of Baker Mayfield begins with an offer from Rice and a shoulder shrug from everyone else.
It now has grown and grown and mushroomed into something that started with roots in Lubbock, Texas and now has bloomed into something stretching from the banks of the Tennessee River to the Brazos.
Mayfield hasn't saved the season at Oklahoma, he's made the the Sooners relevant when it seemed things were spiraling downward, sinking without an identity.
"A lot of coaches missed on him," Stoops said to the media gathered at McLane Stadium.