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Oklahoma's Baker Mayfield: Eligible for two more seasons

Mayfield will be eligible to play through the 2017 season after Big 12 officials approved a new rule proposal Thursday that will allow walk-ons to transfer within the conference without losing a year of eligibility, ESPN.com's Jake Trotter reports.

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The decision comes just one day after the conference had voted down the new rule, as the officials opted to amend the walk-on transfer stipulation rather than eliminate it outright. As the new agreement states, walk-ons who transfer to another school within the conference will only retain a year of eligibility if they failed to receive a scholarship offer from their original program prior to transferring. Since Texas Tech never extended Mayfield a scholarship offer prior to his departure from the program after his freshman season, the quarterback, who claimed Oklahoma's starting job in 2015 as a redshirt sophomore and finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting, will be able to stick with the Sooners for two more seasons. It's a big win for Oklahoma, which looks like a conference frontrunner for the next two seasons with one of the nation's top signal callers behind center.

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