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Kansas State made a big statement Saturday, Baylor played well, and the rest of the league is a mess.
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The 10of12 Podcast, hosted by Ryan Gilbert, takes a weekly dive into the action around the Big 12 Conference
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But use 2012 as an example, the last time a true freshman quarterback played in the opening two games at OSU. Wes Lunt threw 60 passes in OSU’s Week 2 loss to Arizona that season. That group still had solid running backs in Joseph Randle and Jeremy Smith. Defense uncontrolled variable. OSU isn’t playing the stereotypical Big 12 style of trying to outscore its opponents and hopefully ending up with the ball last. It’s more a game of field position and using the Cowboys’ defense to win games, a style synonymous in the SEC and Big Ten. “It’s different,” OSU coach Mike Gundy said. “For me, my job is to game-manage. If a defense is playing good, on fourth-and-short, you punt. If your defense is struggling and you don’t have a lot of confidence in their ability to stop them, you go for a lot of fourth downs. There’s been several fourth downs that we would have gone for in the past here, but right now we’re just punting and playing defense.” Gundy’s fourth-down example holds true. Against West Virginia on Saturday, OSU had four fourth downs of three or less yards to go, and the Cowboys punted all of them. Fourth-and-3 from OSU’s 42 — punt. Fourth-and-2 from WVU’s 40 — punt. Fourth-and-1 from OSU’s 34 — punt. Fourth-and-3 from OSU’s 32 — punt. It’s not the high-octane stuff followers of OSU have grown used to, but it has been effective. OSU’s defense has allowed its first two opponents a combined 20 points. It’s the fewest through two games an OSU D has allowed since 2006 (and those opponents were Missouri State and Arkansas State). Mike Gundy said it is different for him, and it also has to be quite different for new offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn. Dunn has been on OSU’s staff since 2011 before transitioning to OC this season. From 2011 through 2019, OSU averaged 39.5 points a game (4,616 total points). Through only two games this year, OSU has averaged 21.5 points a game. “The nice thing for us is we have a really good defense,” Dunn said. “What you don’t want to do is screw that up and turn one over create a situation where you are scoring points against yourself. I thought we did that [Saturday against West Virginia]. There were a couple times where the ball was loose and on the ground. We gotta get that cleaned up. Those are really the things that bothered me. It’s not the aggressiveness or anything like that. “We want to be an aggressive football team, but sometimes the situation doesn’t allow for it or call for it. We got a puppy at quarterback. We’ve got a really, really stout defense right now. It’s one of those games, you grind it out. It feels like you’re playing old-school SEC football.” It’s a shift in philosophy that, again, includes involves multiple variables. It will be interesting to see whether OSU’s defense can keep this up. Logic would also say that there will be an uptick in offensive production upon Spencer Sanders’ return (which could be this week). If OSU’s offense can bump up near that average of points scored from 2011 through 2019 (given the offensive weapons OSU has it doesn’t seem farfetched) and OSU’s defense can continue on this warpath, this team could be one that can beat people in more ways than one. “We’ll pop some with our guys,” Dunn said. “I’m not worried about that. Back-to-back weeks here we really didn’t crease anything in the receiving game and score. We took a shot that first play of the game. I thought we had one going yard right there and just barely missed it. But we’ll keep taking our shots and eventually these playmakers that we have will get an opportunity to get some daylight and get out of there and go score.” The post Oklahoma State Beating Teams in Ways It Never Has Under Gundy appeared first on Pistols Firing. Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog. Two games down, and the Cowboys’ defense is still on pace to be the best defense Mike Gundy has ever had. In Oklahoma State’s 27-13 win against West Virginia on Saturday, Oklahoma State’s defense allowed the Mountaineers 353 yards of total offense. The Cowboys’ defense also scored as many touchdowns as they gave up with Trace Ford’s strip-sack turned Tyren Irby scoop-and-score. A fun aside to that play: Irby seemed to start strutting about the 15-yard line. Here is what OSU defensive coordinator Jim Knowles said he was thinking during Irby’s stroll. “I don’t think I really want to say what I think,” Knowles said. “He was tired. He wasn’t carrying the ball very well. Those are moments in my life where I kind of see my whole life flash in front of my eyes. Everything kind of slows down. “I’m in the box now, so nobody can hear me. It’s like yelling at your television. It’s like, ‘Finish! Finish! Put the ball away!’ That kind of stuff. But he got in, right? They can’t take it away.” Here are the numbers as to how OSU’s defense is staking up from defenses of Gundy’s past.
It’s still incredibly early, but through two games, the 2020 Pokes lead all of the Gundy-era defenses in points allowed per game and total offense allowed per game. The Cowboys’ pass rush also improved quite a bit between games. After sacking Tulsa quarterback Zach Smith only once, OSU sacked WVU quarterback Jarret Doege five times and crushed him a handful of others. I got an interesting question on Twitter on Tuesday morning from Chris Heasley. He asked, “How much do you think the slow offense means to the defensive stats? Does the fact that the other team isn’t having to ‘keep up’ make a difference? And are we seeing less drives than normal?” It’s sound logic that if a team defends fewer plays, it’s less likely to give up as many points. That was kind of the hypothesis I took into me finding an answer for Chris, but what I found was interesting. In 2019, OSU’s defense played, on average, 71 snaps a game. OSU’s defense game up 26.8 points a game last season. Through two games in 2020, OSU’s defense has played, on average, 69.5 snaps a game, and that defense is giving up only 10 points a game. A sample size of Tulsa and a mediocre West Virginia isn’t large enough draw any sweeping conclusions, but I was interesting to see that the snaps weren’t that far off last seasons. The post Defense Tracker: Cowboys’ Defense Dominates WVU, Still among Gundy’s Best appeared first on Pistols Firing. Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog.
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Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy provided an update on quarterback Spencer Sanders Monday
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BearTerritory breaks down the latest Cal football recruiting scoop.
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