No. 7 Texas Wins 2023 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship 49-21
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Quinn Ewers set a career high by throwing for 452 yards with four touchdowns, one of those to 362-pound defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat, and the seventh-ranked Texas Longhorns secured the 2023 Big 12 title with a 49-21 win over No. 18 Oklahoma State in the 2023 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship. UT (12-1) has now won four overall Big 12 football championship titles. They also won it in the league’s inaugural 1996 season, in 2005 when they were last national champs and in 2009 before playing in the BCS national championship game. Keilan Robinson tiptoed the sideline on a 57-yard run for the first of his two touchdowns in the second half as Texas, the only team to beat Alabama entering Saturday, stayed in playoff contention. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said Saturday that Texas would “certainly deserve consideration” for a playoff spot and the league would strongly support it. With national rushing leader Ollie Gordon II, Oklahoma State (9-4) had w...