Oklahoma football: How Baker Mayfield went from walk on to OU legend

Performance against Baylor in 2015

Some OU fans may have tried hard to block this out of their minds, but the Baylor Bears owned the Sooners for much of the early part of the 2010s and in turn, also owned the Big 12 during that time.

The Bears had won three of four against Oklahoma including two in a row by a combined score of 89-26. They were undefeated and had never lost at McClane Stadium going into the game.

On a soggy November night in Waco Mayfield brought the Sooners back into the College Football Playoff discussion with 270 yards and three scores through the air and 76 yards and one score on the ground. Of all the big plays he made that day none was bigger than a 7-yard touchdown pass to Dimitri Flowers in the fourth quarter.

With 4:34 to go in the game the Sooners had driven all the way down inside the Baylor 10-yard line, but were struggling to punch the ball in. A field goal would have made for a significantly-different situation, giving the high-powered Bears attack the ball back with a chance to take the lead late in the fourth quarter at home, but Mayfield had no intention on settling for three points.

On a third and goal from the seven Mayfield avoided one rusher, backed up, rolled right to buy even more time and eventually after nearly 10 seconds of scrambling fired a laser to Flowers on the goal line for what would be the game-clinching touchdown. The Sooners took a 44-34 lead that would hold up for the rest of the game, handed Baylor its first-ever loss at McClane Stadium and started a run of consecutive Big 12 Championships that is still going on to this day.