College football notebook | Oklahoma picks Mayfield as starting quarterback – Columbus Dispatch

No. 19 Oklahoma has named Baker Mayfield the starting quarterback over last year’s starter, Trevor Knight, coach Bob Stoops announced.

Mayfield sat out last season after transferring from Texas Tech. As a freshman walk-on at Tech in 2013, he passed for 2,315 yards and 12 touchdowns in eight games and was named Big 12 offensive newcomer of the year.

At Oklahoma, Mayfield will run new coordinator Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid offense, the same system he ran at Tech.

• Montell Cozart will start at quarterback for new Kansas coach David Beaty when the Jayhawks begin their season Sept. 5 against South Dakota State. Cozart started three games as a freshman in 2013 and the first five games last season beforeMichael Cummings took over. But Cummings suffered a season-ending injury to his left knee in the spring game.

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