College football rivalry games often bring out the best in teams. And the worst in fans.
Oklahoma, ranked No. 17 in the BCS standings before Saturday's games, upset No. 6-ranked Oklahoma State 33-24 on Saturday in Stillwater, Okla., ending the Cowboys hopes of winning the Big 12 championship and earning an automatic berth in the Fiesta Bowl.
It was Sooners coach Bob Stoops' eighth win in nine tries against Cowboys coach Mike "I'm a man; I'm 40!" Gundy.
Oklahoma State trailed 27-24 and had one final play on third-and-17 on its own 30 with two seconds left. The Cowboys tried to lateral the ball around after a completed pass in hopes of finding a miracle path through the Sooners' defense.
On the third lateral, the ball bounced on the ground and Oklahoma's Eric Striker picked it up and ran it in for a touchdown.
Deadspin.com first showed the footage and reported that as Striker runs through the end zone to celebrate, an Oklahoma State cheerleader is shown trying to trip Striker. At the end of a two-minute, 21-second highlight video, the Cowboys' cheerleader is standing in the back of the end zone and sticks out his left foot in an obvious attempt to trip the Sooners player.
The Cowboys (10-2, 7-2 Big 12) scored with 1:46 left in the game on Desmond Roland's third touchdown of the game to go ahead 24-20.
Oklahoma came back behind quarterback Blake Bell, who replaced injured Trevor Knight in the second half and engineered a 66-yard touchdown drive, culminating with Bell's 7-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Saunders with 19 second left in the game.
"You just love it to see a guy who's a competitor like that, who's been sitting on the bench all game, to come in and play so well," Stoops said of Bell, as ESPN.com reported. "He played great."
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