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NORMAN, Okla. -- Baker Mayfield passed for 300 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score to help No. 11 Oklahoma defeat Baylor 45-24 on Saturday.Sooners coach Bob Stoops said Mayfield is playing better than a year ago, when he finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting. He said Mayfield has improved as he has become more comfortable with offensive coordinator Lincoln Rileys system and receiver Dede Westbrook.He was fourth in the Heisman last year, so why wouldnt you expect him with another year to be better, Stoops said. Do we expect? Yes, we do. And watching him from a year ago, having a full year under his belt with coach Riley and these other receivers, and the emergence of Dede -- yes, we expect him to be looking like this.The Sooners won their seventh in a row overall and 15th straight in Big 12 play. Joe Mixon had 187 yards from scrimmage and Samaje Perine ran for 100 yards and two touchdowns after missing three games with a pulled muscle in his right leg for Oklahoma (8-2, 7-0 Big 12, No. 9 AP).Baylor (6-3, 3-3; No. 25 AP) had hoped to bounce back after last weeks 62-22 loss to TCU. Instead, the Bears are on their first 3-game losing streak since the middle of the 2012 season.Baylor quarterback Seth Russell severely dislocated his left ankle and was carted off the field with 5:48 left in the third quarter. He passed for 148 yards and ran for 70 before getting injured, but he threw two interceptions and lost a fumble.THE TAKEAWAYBaylor: The Bears continued to fall apart. Their collapse started with a loss to Texas, got much worse against TCU, and now, things look bleak with Russell out. Russell missed much of last season with a broken neck. Backup quarterback Zach Smith completed 6 of 15 passes for 144 yards and a touchdown. The Bears will need to hope Russells injury isnt as serious as it looked.Oklahoma: Oklahomas defense was solid for the third straight week after giving up 59 points and 854 yards against Texas Tech. The Sooners gave up three points against Kansas, then 24 against Iowa State the next game. Baylor gained 504 yards, but Oklahomas defense forced three critical turnovers. Linebacker Jordan Evans led the way with two sacks and two interceptions.POLL IMPLICATIONSBaylor: The Bears school-record streak of 60 consecutive AP poll appearances, which Baylor says is the fourth-longest active streak in FBS, will likely end.Oklahoma: The Sooners, who were unranked heading into Big 12 play, could move higher in the AP Top 10 and position themselves to move into the College Football Playoff picture. Oklahoma was 12th in the AP poll at the same point last year.UP NEXTBaylor hosts Kansas State next Saturday.Oklahoma travels to West Virginia next Saturday. 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Wayne Bennett has accused his England side of beating themselves against Australia and pinpointed skipper Sam Burgess as a chief culprit.The ruthless Kangaroos punished the error-prone hosts with 38-16 win at the London Stadium to end their Four Nations campaign in front of a crowd of over 35,000, leaving Bennett in a frustrated mood after the game.NRL stars Gaeth Widdop and Josh Hodgson both failed to find touch with penalties in the first half and Burgess was penalised twice just before halftime by English referee Robert Hicks, much to the dismay of his coach.The problem is our inability to continually maintain pressure... not finding the sideline on two occasions, which is pretty important in any context let alone against the best team in the world, Bennett said.Then the stupid penalties we continually give away.Sam gives away far too many penalties - Ill be quite candid with you.He does that at South Sydney as well so he needs to change his behaviour.Burgess said he agreed with Bennetts coomments about his indiscipline but slammed Hicks performance and accused him of being swayed by verbal pressure from Australia skipper Cameron Smith.dddddddddddd.Theyre a class outfit, but I think were a better side than that scoreline, Burgess said.I agree with Wayne, I did give two penalties away at the end of the first half and one led to two points. Its something I have to improve on.Some of the calls were not good enough at all, youve got to put the whistle away at some point, and Im not saying that is why we lost.But this is an international and there were 13 or 14 penalties in the first half.I dont know what agenda hes got there but at this level I dont think they were penalties.He was being made aware of the penalty count by an Australian player and made sure it was even by halftime.Asked if it was Cameron Smith, Burgess responded: Yeah, hes a smart player. ' ' '