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.

Oklahoma State's Zac Robinson is nominated for the Unitas Award

The Oklahoma State Cowboys' quarterback Zac Robinson, has been nominated for another award. This time he has been nominated for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the top senior quarterback in college football.

Zac has thrown for 1,922 yards and 15 touchdowns this year and has lead the Cowboys to an 8-2 record. Just think of what his stats would be if Dez Bryant would have played more than just a couple of games this year.

The other finalists for the award are Colt McCoy, Texas; Tim Tebow, Florida; Dan LeFevour, Central Michigan; and Thaddeus Lewis, Duke.

The winner will be announced on December the 11th.

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.

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 wins big over Iowa State, 34-8

Oklahoma State gets to leave Ames, Iowa with a big win over the Cyclones of Iowa State. But more importantly they leave with a big boost of confidence in the way they played football today. They needed it after the thrashing they received last weekend on Halloween night to the Texas Longhorns.

Defensive coordinator, Bill Young and the rest of the Cowboys defensive have to be pleased with the way that they played today. They held strong against the Iowa State offense for most of the day until around the twelve minute mark when they gave up the only big play of the day. A 45 yard touchdown pass. The Cyclones then went for the two points and got it. The defense also came up with three key interceptions, including one in the endzone to help end a scoring threat and to win the turnover battle.

The defense also held the Big 12 leading rusher, Alexander Robinson, to just 51 yards on 16 carries. He was averaging 101.6 yards a game. Iowa Stat as a team only rushed for 54 yards in the game.

The Cowboys got back on the track they were on before the Texas game and played smart football and didn't turn the ball over at all.

Zac Robinson had a pretty mediocre day by his standards going 19 of 24 for 142 yards and a touchdown. The key thing with him today is that he was able to bounce back after that terrible game against Texas were he threw four interceptions, as he didn't turn the ball over against Iowa State.

The story of the game and player of the game was Oklahoma State running back Keith Totson and his career rushing day. Totson carried the ball 25 times for 206 yards and 3 touchdowns. Those three touchdowns all came in the second half of the game. Totson's previous career best was 148 yards against lowly Missouri State last year.

Kendall Hunter, the star running back that has missed most of the season with an ankle injury played a bigger part in today's game. Hunter rushed the ball 9 times for 47 yards. The Cowboys finished the game with 331 yards rushing total.

The Cowboys can now come back to Stillwater with a nice boost to their confidence and the knowledge that they are playing good ball again and start getting ready to host the Red Raiders of Texas Tech on the 14th.

Can the Cowboys avenge the lost they faced last year at the hands of Mike Leach and the Red Raiders in Lubbock? We'll find out next Saturday.

Oklahoma State leads Iowa State 13-0 at halftime

After the end of the first half #19 Oklahoma State leads Iowa State by a score of 13-0. The Cowboys defense is still making the plays to keep Iowa State from finding the endzone including an interception for Parrish Cox.

The offense is still a little sluggish out there. The 'Boys were able to march the ball 98 yards down the field for the only touchdown of the game. Zac Robinson scrambled around and found a wide open Tracy Moore in the endzone. Robinson also broke Coach Mike Gundy's record for passing yards (7,997 yards) with that completion. What a way to break the record.

Hopefully Coach can pep the offense up some during halftime so we can come back out and start finding the endzone.

#19 Oklahoma State visits Iowa State

The 19th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys have traveled to Ames, Iowa to take on the Big 12 North foe Iowa State Cyclones. The Cowboys are coming off a crushing by the hands of #2 Texas on Halloween night, so the 'Boys are looking to rebound and start playing like they were before they met up with the Longhorns.

The Cowboys are now 6-2, 3-1 in the conference. Iowa State is 5-4, 2-3 in the conference. On paper the Cowboys should be able to handle the Cyclones fairly easily but you never know how things are going to end up from week to week.

One thing is for sure, Zac Robinson needs to rebound off that terrible game he had against the Longhorns. Robinson had been playing some very smart ball and playing very well. He was the Big 12 passing eff. leader and had only thrown 3 interceptions going into that game. He ended up throwing 4 interceptions in the Texas game alone, including two that were returned for touchdowns.

Lets look to see if the Cowboys can regain their confidence against Iowa State today.

Some series notes:

• Oklahoma State leads the series 24-17-3 against the Cyclones.
• We're only 10-11-1 in Ames.
• The Cowboys won their last two home games in the series by a combined score of 95-24.
• The Cowboys have lost their last two road games in the series by a combined score of 82-27.
• OSU is 3-4-1 in its last eight games at Iowa State.
• In Big 12 play, OSU holds a 4-3 series advantage.
• When playing as a member of the AP top 25, OSU is 6-2 against Iowa State.

I'll try to post some throughout the game when it starts in about 30 minutes.

LET'S GO POKES!!!

A horrifying Halloween night for Robinson and the 'Boys

There were no treats on Halloween night in Stillwater, Oklahoma when the third ranked Texas Longhorns came to town and blew the Cowboys away. The Cowboys had come into the game on a five game winning streak and were clicking on all phases of the game. They were doing it without the two biggest playmakers.

Running back Kendall Hunter had been sidelined since the second game of the season with an ankle injury. Wide receiver Dez Bryant has been suspended by the NCAA. Last night showed that we are missing those guys much more than anybody thought, especially Dez Bryant.

Some of us, especially me, were praising the play of Hubert Anyiam who had stepped in for Bryant and had played well. That ended last night when he dropped a sure fire touchdown on the OSU's opening possession. Would Dez make that catch? Most people would answer Yes, to that. Then later in the game Anyiam made a good catch but then fumbled the ball away.

Zac Robinson went into this game coming off one of the best game's he has had here. Zac had been playing really smart football not turning the ball over, he only had 3 interceptions. He threw four interceptions in this game alone, including two that were returned for touchdowns. Not smart football at all.

This is all I can really get myself to write about right now cause I'm still irritated by the way the Cowboys played. Hopefully I can come back later in the week and write some more about the game.

We're going to have to fix some things if we want to beat those suckers in Norman.

Zac Robinson is a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien Award

Oklahoma State's quarterback Zac Robinson was announced earlier today along with 14 other QB's as semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien Award, which is awarded to the nation's best quarterback.

Zac has had a pretty decent year leading the Cowboys to a 6-1 record completing 115 of 176 passes for 1,547 yards and 12 touchdowns. He's been playing smart ball and has only thrown 3 interceptions, lowest in the conference. He's also set some new Oklahoma State record's this year including setting the pass completion record in Saturday's win against Baylor. He's also set records for total offense and touchdown passes.

Here's what Zac had to say about the nomination.

"It's an honor to be included as a semifinalist for an award as prestigious as the Davey O'Brien. I look at it as more of a team award than an individual award because when you consider all that we have been through this year, it really shows how well the guys around me have played."

You can go to www.voteobrien.org to cast your vote on who you think is the nation's top quarterback.

Here's also the list of all the quarterback's nominated.

Matt Barkley - USC
Daryll Clark - Penn State
Jimmy Clausen - Notre Dame
Jacory Harris - Miami
Case Keenum - Houston
Dan LeFevour - Central Michigan
Jake Locker - Washington
Colt McCoy - Texas
Kellen Moore - Boise State
Tony Pike - Cincinnati
Todd Reesing - Kansas
Zac Robinson - Oklahoma State
Ricky Stanzi - Iowa
Bill Stull - Pittsburgh
Tim Tebow - Florida