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Iowa State at no. 9 Oklahoma (11 a.m., FX): The Sooners (8-2, 5-2 in the Big 12) had to win to bring in the Big 12 title hopes to up their game Dec. 3 at no. 4 Oklahoma State (10-1, 7-1).
Baylor coach Art Briles is not trying to disrespect when someone asked him if last week’s stunning 45-38 victory against then-no. 5-ranked Oklahoma’s signature win for the program.{p”To me if You already have a signature win, then what you have in front of You?,” Briles said. “So I definitely didn’t feel like we’re through.{p”Hopefully in the 15 years from now-if I were fortunate enough to coach the long-we can look back and say, ‘ Hey, you win in 2011, it is nice to win. ‘ “{pVictory over OU is “winning nice” to bear, because it was the first school to the Sooners. But Briles was looking for more WINS, starting today at 6 p.m. against Texas Tech at Cowboys stadium.{pThe bears 7-3 and ranked No. 6 in the BCS standings.{pAgain the bears win, the more they increase their chances to get in a bowl game, the more benefit can help finance the anticipated on-campus Stadium.{p”We think that we sort of became a hot team may now, and the team was quite confident,” Briles said. “And the good thing about it is that this is not the third game of the season, so we don’t have to maintain the level of six or eight games.{p”If we can stay at this level and improve on it for two games, then we had a chance to finish it deserves. But what we have to do is make sure we understand how we are able to do things that we did the last two or three weeks and continue. “{pBaylor has been able to ride a hot hand quarterback Robert Griffin III, a leading candidate to win the Heisman Trophy award this year. Briles compared Griffin some sports all-time greats.{p”Michael Jordan, he would make a lot of shots and score more points because he was good,” Briles said. “When Tiger at the height of his career, he would have won many tournaments as he is better than anyone else he plays.{p”Robert so would make the play Sunday and Monday came out because he’s a heck of best. He is a heck of athletes. He is a heck of a leader. And he has the intellectual talented enough to have that intangible is needed to become a complete player.{pOn the other side of the coin, 5-6 victory over the Raiders need only bear became Bowl eligible for the 19th consecutive season.{pBut even a win wouldn’t guarantee a Tech Bowl appearance, due to eight Big 12 teams had qualified for the Conference seven Bowl slots.{pAnd that’s a scenario Tech coach Tommy Tuberville addressed with his players this week, especially with the.{p”They don’t want to hear talk about the bowl,” said Tuberville. “This is a big game for them.{p”They want to go out and just won this game, and I think it’s good enough to say, ‘ Hey, coach, let’s win this game. Don’t worry about anything, ‘ as many of them, if You didn’t win this game, this is the last time they wear a helmet or a pair of shoulder pads. “{pThe Raiders started 4-0, then lost their best players–running back Eric Stephens–a knee injury late last season for 45-40 loss to Texas A