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With a bat of the hand, Sooners hold on to Big 12 and playoff chances

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With one batted ball, the Sooners will play for the Big 12 Championship on Saturday in Stillwater.

That wasn’t so certainly in the final moments of the OU-TCU game on Saturday. But Steven Parker made it happen.

Parker batted away a 2-point conversion attempt by TCU in the closing seconds of Oklahoma’s 30-29 hang-on-for-dear-life victory over TCU Saturday night.

TCU had a chance to tie the game after Kohlhausen’s 14-yard touchdown pass to Emanuel Porter with 51 seconds remaining. Instead, Horned Frogs Coach Gary Patterson called a 2-point conversion play, but it was turned away by Parker.

“I just had a hard decision between staying on my receiver and coming to get the quarterback,” Parker said. “And I kind of just played in between, and just timed my jump right. It’s probably my most memorable moment in my football career.”

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