Oklahoma State Report Card vs Colorado

Offense: C
Rushing: A
Passing: C

Could Oklahoma State's offense be any worse during the first half against Colorado? Especially in the passing game. Oklahoma State's backup quarterback Alex Cate, who was starting in place of Zac Robinson who was being held out of the game for precautionary reasons, was absolutely dreadful, going 0 for 9 with an interception. He could of had three more interception's but luckily the Colorado defensive backs couldn't keep their hands on the ball.

Luckily, Coach Mike Gundy made a switch at quarterback to Brandon Weeden who came in and did a decent job at leading the Cowboy offense. Weeden went 10 of 15 for 168 yards and 2 touchdowns and no interceptions.

The rushing offense was the usual solid self. Keith Totson lead the way with 172 yards on the ground with one touchdown. Kendall Hunter came in and ran for 47 yards. Overall the Cowboy's ran for 232 yards.

Defense: B

The Cowboy defense was only allowing 20 points per game coming into the game but they gave up 28 points to the lowly Buffaloes. The 7th ranked rush defense was the usual solid self only giving up 13 rushing yards. That's 73 yards less than their average allowed per game.

The downfall to the Pokes defense is in the passing game. They were ranked 92nd in the nation in passing defense giving up 244 yards per game. That didn't change much last night as the Buffaloes were able to pass for 238 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Special Teams: C

The special teams started out with a bang as Perrish Cox ran back the first punt of the ball game for a touchdown for the first score of the game.

Dan Bailey went 1 for 2 in field goals, hitting his first attempt at 30 yards. Unfortunately he had a later attempt blocked.

The bad news for the Cowboys special teams was that they gave up a 98 yard kickoff return for a touchdown, just seconds after they scored the go ahead touchdown.

Overall this was a pretty scary game for the Cowboys and their fans. Of course the offense struggled without the starting quarterback Zac Robinson in the line up but they're going to have to improve upon some things if they hope to defeat the Sooners in Norman next week.

Zac Robinson gets jacked up!

I just wanted to post and share the video of the Oklahoma State Cowboys' quarterback Zac Robinson getting jacked up by Jamar Wall late in the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday night. As you can see, Zac fumbles the ball and gives Tech the chance to march down the field and score the game tying touchdown, but the Poke's defense stepped up to the task and kept the Red Raiders from scoring.



After seeing that hit, it was surprising that both players were alright and were able to get up and walk off the field. I don't see how Zac didn't get a concussion cause judging by the way he looked when he was going to the locker room didn't look good, at all.

Apparently he is ok though cause Head Coach Mike Gundy said that he was anticipating Zac playing on Thursday night when Colorado comes to Stillwater.

The Cowboys need Robinson on field if they hope to win the most games in school history this year and especially if they want to defeat the Sooners in Norman.

We shall see.

OSU's Perrish Cox named defensive player of the week

The Oklahoma State Cowboys' cornerback Perrish Cox has been named the Big 12's defensive player of the week for his outstanding performance against the Texas Tech Red Raiders this past Saturday night.

Cox had two interceptions in the game including a key one in the endzone to help stop a Red Raider scoring drive. He also had 4 tackles and 3 pass defensed. Cox is now leading the nation in passes defended with 2.11 per game.

Perrish was also named as a Thorpe Award semifinalist a couple of weeks ago. The Thorpe Award is awarded to the nations best defensive back. He's surely making a case for the award with his play on the much improved defense of the Cowboys.

He'll look to continue to play good defense this Thursday night with the Buffaloes of Colorado come to Stillwater.

Oklahoma State Report Card vs Texas Tech

Offense: B
Passing: C
Rushing: A-

The Oklahoma State Cowboys are lucky that there are two halves of a football game, cause if we were just grading the first half you would have to give the 'Boys an F, perhaps a D at the most. They were awful, plain and simple. For one thing the offensive line had only given up four sacks all year long. They gave up 3 sacks in the first half. Terrible.

The running game wasn't that much better. The Cowboys are the top running team in the Big 12 and they only rushed for 36 yards in the first half and only had 95 total yards of offense.

The second half was another story. The offense and particularly the offensive line came alive and marched up and down the field on long time consuming drives. They rushed for 207 yards in the second half for 243 rushing yards total.

Zac Robinson led the rushing attack with 99 yards, which is good cause he only throw for 90 yards. The passing game left something to be desired...

Defense: A

You have to like the way the Pokes played defense against the high flying offense of Texas Tech. The Cowboys held Tech to just 357 total yards of offense. Tech was averaging nearly 470 yards of offense per game. They average 418.6 yards passing and the Cowboys defense held them to just 307 yards. The rushing defense was solid only allowing 50 yards rushing. Although Texas Tech is not really that much of a rushing team.

The Red Raiders were also scoring nearly 40 points a game and the Pokes only let them score 17. This was also a major improvement from the last couple of years when the Cowboys gave up 56 points in 2008 and and 45 points in 2007.

Special Teams: C

This grade might seem a little low but there really wasn't anything of not to speak of in the special teams area.

Perrish Cox didn't have that great of a day returning kicks and punts. There were no big gains in that area.

Dan Bailey did make his field goal and all the extra points. Quinn Sharp was ok in the punting game averaging 41 yards for his six punts, but he did have a wounded duck of a punt that could have been a lot better.

Overall the grades are pretty good for the Cowboys against the Red Raiders. It was a well played and a hard fought game. Luckily for the Cowboys their defense are stepping up their play this year and helped to shut down Tech. Good game 'Boys, now get focused on those lowly Colorado Buffaloes for when they come to town this Thursday.

Oklahoma State make a big move in the BCS standings

The Oklahoma State Cowboys (8-2, 5-1) moved up to the number 12 spot in the latest BCS standings released earlier today. They were previously ranked 19th. That's a pretty good jump. Luckily for us there were a lot of ranked teams with loses this past Saturday to help us move up like we did.

We also moved up to 12th place in the AP Top 25 poll and 13th place in the Coaches poll.

The Cowboys don't have long to savor that tough win that they were able to get over the Texas Tech Red Raiders (6-4, 3-3) as they have to turn around quickly and prepare for the Colorado Buffaloes (3-7, 2-4) on Thursday night, the 19th.

The big question this week is, will Zack Robinson be able to play against Colorado? Zack took a huge hit near the end of the game when he was trying to take the ball into the endzone and collided with a Tech defensive back. Both players remained on the ground for some time before the finally got up. Zack looked like he took the worse of the hit as he needed a little help to reach the locker room.

Coach Mike Gundy has said that he anticipates that Zack will play on Thursday, so I assume that he didn't get a concussion. From the way he looked while walking off the field that is what I thought he had. But hopefully that's not the case and he will be fine.

The Cowboys are going to need Zack around if we want to finish the season out with wins. They could possibly get past the lowly Buffaloes without him, but they definitely need him if they hope to defeat the Sooners in Norman at the end of the month.

Let's see if the Cowboys can improve upon what they were able to do Saturday night against the Red Raiders and if the defense will be able to continue playing at the high level they have been playing at lately.

Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson sets new record

Zac Robinson had a near perfect day down in Waco, Texas where the Oklahoma State Cowboys defeated the Baylor Bears pretty easily. Zac completed 23 of 27 passes for 250 yards and 3 touchdowns. Those three touchdowns were a season high for him this year.

With Zac completing 85% of his passes he has broken the old OSU record that was held by our head coach Mike Gundy. Gundy set the old mark by completing 77% of his passes against Kansas back in 1989. A lot of Gundy's passing records are slowly starting to fall since he's become the head coach. I'm sure he doesn't mind as long as we keep winning ball games.

More importantly Zac played smart and error free. He didn't fumble or throw an interception. The Cowboys have gone two games in a row without turning the ball over. It's key for Zac and the rest of the Cowboys to keep playing smart and protecting the football as the schedule heats up.

We host #3 Texas next Saturday on what might be a scary Halloween night. Texas played pretty well Saturday night against Missouri. Hopefully we can get the Texas that showed up against OU and not the one that played Missouri.

After Texas we travel to play Iowa State, who have been playing pretty good by Iowa State standards. We should win but this is just the type of game that usually trips us up. Texas Tech comes to town after that. This year's Tech team is not the Tech of old that's for sure but they are a tricky team to figure out this year, looking good sometimes and awful at other times. They just got whooped by Texas A&M last night and the Aggies haven't been looking good this year against Big 12 teams.

Colorado comes to Stillwater on November 19th. The Buffs have looked pretty bad this year at times but we have to be careful and not overlook them focusing on OU. They could trip us up.

Then we play OU at Norman for the last game of the season. Oklahoma is not the team of old and have had some bad moments this year but they always play tough at home. This could be our year to win there though.

So we have a moderately tough road ahead of us. This is Big 12 football so you never really know what's going to happen each Saturday. Lets stay focused Pokes.