Big 12 Notables
No. 7/7 Oklahoma State tops the Big 12 teams in the Associated Press and coaches polls, followed by No. 20/20 Iowa State and No. 22/22 Kansas State.

West Virginia leads the Big 12 and ranks eighth nationally with a total defense of 268 yards per game, followed by Oklahoma State at No. 9 with 274.3. Baylor (336.5, No. 19) and Oklahoma (342.5, No. 20) also sit within the top-20.

Oklahoma State’s defense has allowed just 9.0 points per game in its first three contests, which is the best amongst autonomy conference schools and No. 3 nationally. West Virginia (19.3) follows at No. 13 and Baylor (20.5) at No. 15.

Texas and Oklahoma both rank in the top-12 nationally in total offense and scoring offense.  The Longhorns are second in scoring offense with 49.5 points per game and rank 11th in total offense with 495.3 yards per contest. Oklahoma has averaged 41.5 points per contest in its first four games for 12th, while its 502.0 yards of total offense is eighth in the NCAA.

Team-By-Team Notables
Baylor, Kansas, Oklahoma State and West Virginia were idle this week. Kansas and West Virginia return to action next week with an 11 a.m. CT kick in Morgantown on FS1. 

Iowa State is 3-0 in conference play for the fifth time in school history and first time since 2002 with a 35-15 win over Texas Tech in Ames. The Cyclones are 12-1 in the month of October since 2017, the most such wins by an autonomy conference team during that span.

Cyclone RB Breece Hall rushed for 135 yards and two scores becoming the first player at ISU since 2000 to start the season with four consecutive 100-yard rushing efforts.

With a pair of passing touchdowns, ISU’s Brock Purdy has 47 in his career, which is second on the school’s all-time list (Bret Meyer, 50). He is responsible for 61 touchdowns (passing and rushing) in his career, which is also second (Meyer, 62).

The Cyclone defense has limited its first four opponents to 3.5 or fewer yards per rush and under 120 yards rushing in each contest.

With the 21-14 victory over TCU, K-State is now 3-0 to start Big 12 play for the first time since the 2014 season and the sixth time in the 25-year history of the league. Of the other five times the Wildcats began 3-0, they finished with at least seven Big 12 wins each time, including a pair of eight-win conference slates (1998 and 2012).

True freshman quarterback Will Howard registered his first-career start, throwing for 117 yards on 8-of-19 aim, while he rushed 13 times for 86 yards and a touchdown. He became the fourth true freshman to start at quarterback for the Wildcats, the first since 2006, and the first true freshman starting quarterback in school history to win their first-career road start.

Senior defensive back AJ Parker pushed the Wildcats out to a two-score lead with a 38-yard interception return touchdown. It was the Wildcats’ first pick-six since 2017.

Oklahoma outlasted No. 22 Texas, 53-45, in the highest scoring game (98 combined points) of the Red River Showdown.  The four-overtime contest was the third in Big 12 history and the first since 2011.

Since 2000, Oklahoma has lost its game immediately prior to the Red River contest four times and has beaten the Longhorns on all four occasions (28-21 in 2007, 31-26 in 2014, 29-24 in 2017 and 53-45 today).

Sooner safety Pat Fields tallied a team-leading and career-high 12 tackles (six solo) against Texas. 

OU’s Spencer Rattler became just the third Oklahoma quarterback to beat Texas as a freshman starter, joining Justin Fuente in 1996 and Sam Bradford in 2007. Like Rattler, Fuente and Bradford were redshirt freshmen. He completed 23-of-35 passes for 209 yards and three touchdowns with one interception, while he rushed 14 times for 51 yards and a touchdown, scored in the second overtime period.

TCU’s Garret Wallow had a team-best 10 stops against Kansas State, including two for loss, for his first double-digit tackle game of the season and 11th of his career.

Horned Frog safety Josh Foster registered his first career interception on K-State's opening possession of the second half.

Texas QB Sam Ehlinger completed 30-of-53 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns, and carried the ball 23 times for a career-high 112 yards and four touchdowns versus Oklahoma. It marked his third game with at least five touchdowns this season and second with six (vs. Texas Tech).

Texas Tech’s Zech McPhearson scored the Red Raiders’ first touchdown of the afternoon as he returned a blocked Iowa State field goal attempt 90 yards to the end zone. It marked the first time a Red Raider had returned a blocked field since Lawrence Flugence went 79 yards to the end zone following an Aaron Hunt block in 2000 versus Oklahoma State. McPhearson has been involved in three of the five blocked kicks in the Matt Wells era as he previously blocked a pair of field goal/extra point attempts as a junior in 2019. In addition to his touchdown, McPhearson also notched a career high with 10 tackles.