EDITOR'S NOTE: Each week, The Daily's RJ Young and MJ Casiano debate the biggest question in sports. This week, Young and Casiano discuss how many games the OU football team will win of its last two.

RJ says one

OU is going to win one of its final two regular season games.

Beyond the simple truth that the Sooners have been absolutely abysmal on the road this season, they have not won back-to-back road games on the since 2006.

Sophomore quarterback Landry Jones has proven to be unflappable this season at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. He’s thrown for at least 300 yards and three touchdowns in each of OU’s last three home games.

It’s on the road where Jones’ problems have surfaced, and one of many reasons why the Sooners have not been able to create the magic when wearing the away jerseys. In both of OU’s losses against Texas A&M and Missouri, he threw at least one interception and threw at least 50 pass attempts.

Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson has only called 50 or more pass plays this season for Jones one other time. It happened when the Sooners traveled north to Cincinnati to play the Bearcats.

The result of the game was a win for OU, but it proved more of a battle than they bargained.

Saturday, the Sooners will travel to Waco, Texas, to play what it is surely the best Baylor Bears football team in recent memory. Earlier this season, the Bears sat atop the Big 12 South standings and were one of the favorites to represent the South Division in the Big 12 Championship game.

OU has to beat Baylor for a Big 12 South showdown between it and Oklahoma State to matter on Saturday Nov. 27 beyond the obvious Bedlam hysteria that accompanies their yearly in-state feud.

Though OU has not lost to OSU since 2002 — home or away — this Cowboys team is not your father’s perennial powderpuff. OSU leads the conference in scoring offense, passing offense and total offense and has a stout No. 10 BCS ranking to bolster its bravado.

If both OU and OSU take care of business Saturday, this game will mark the first time that the Cowboys have been ranked higher in any national poll than OU going into the Bedlam rivalry since 1997.

That has to count for something.

— RJ Young, journalism grad student

MJ says one

In three away games to date, the Sooners have almost pulled the hat trick of losses.

On Sept. 25, OU traveled to an unranked Cincinnati and let junior quarterback Zach Collaros throw for over 300 yards and three touchdowns, alongside a 169-yard performance from junior running back Isaiah Pead, his second highest rushing total of the season.

Had Bearcat junior wide receiver D.J. Woods not muffed a punt late in the fourth quarter, the game could’ve taken a drastic turn. Luckily for OU, the Sooners were able to pounce onto an onside kick and seal the 31-29 victory.

Then nearly a month later, just when OU earned the No. 1 spot in the BCS, they traveled to No. 11 Missouri and allowed a Tiger kickoff return via sophomore wide receiver Gahn McGaffie on the very first play.

Missouri never really looked back and controlled majority of the game, cruising to a 36-37 upset.

Two weeks later, the Sooners didn’t even show up to College Station, Texas, to play an unranked Texas A&M team.

OU was embarrassingly down 19-0 in the third quarter and ultimately lost 33-19, which basically ended all chances of a BCS bowl game, barring a miracle.

It’s no secret OU is two completely different teams in and outside of Norman.

I’d even go as far to say sophomore quarterback Landry Jones looks like Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning at home and Texas sophomore quarterback Garrett Gilbert away.

With two weeks left in the season, OU needs many scenarios to fall in place, including the obvious winning out to make it to the Big 12 Championship in Dallas.

But these wins won’t come so easy.

Saturday, OU will travel to a good Baylor team — yeah, I said good — that owns one of the most dynamic, electrifying quarterbacks in the nation in sophomore dual-threat quarterback Robert Griffin III.

Baylor is on a two-game losing skid, as well as Baylor never beating OU in the team’s history, so this game will most likely end in OU’s favor.

It’s the Oklahoma State game next week that has everyone worried.

Not only is OSU ranked No. 10, but they have the second-best passing attack in the nation that will have an obvious advantage over an inconsistent OU secondary.

They have NFL talent all around them in junior quarterback Brandon Weeden, senior running back Kendall Hunter and sophomore star wide receiver Justin Blackmon.

Anytime “Bedlam” is played, the talent gap shrinks between the two teams. Unfortunately for OU, I believe the more talented team will be hosting this game and ultimately win.

— MJ Casiano, journalism senior