Oklahoma State Guaranteed a Super Bowl Champion This Year

(Robert Allen contribributed to this story.)

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State football is guaranteed a Super Bowl champion this year as the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams are set to face each other in Super Bowl 56 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

Corner Tre Flowers will be getting some playing time for the Bengals and former Cowboy quarterback Zac Robinson is the assistant quarterbacks coach for the Rams. Whichever team wins, it’ll be the first champion for the Pokes since Emmanuel Ogbah in 2020 with the Kansas City Chiefs and the 20th in program history. 

The game is on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. CT on NBC.

Flowers was picked up mid-season by the Bengals from Seattle after clearing waivers and has had a solid time in Cincy so far. He’s recorded 32 total tackles since being picked up, including 22 solo stops, and three pass break ups. Nine of those tackles and two pass break ups have come in the playoffs.

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Flowers (31) as a senior at OSU.

In the three games he played with Seattle this season, he recorded 16 total tackles, 15 of which were solo stops. 

Flowers played at Oklahoma State from 2014-2017 and finished with 284 tackles and four interceptions. In his senior season, Flowers was a first team All-Big 12 selection and led the team with 79 tackles, two interceptions, and eight pass breakups.

This season marks Robinson’s third with the Rams, the second in this role. Many people in the NFL consider him the top assistant for head coach Sean McVay to bounce things off of. The two have a strong working relationship. He was a receivers coach during the 2020 season. Prior to joining the Rams, Robinson was a senior analyst for Pro Football Focus as a primary pro and quarterback evaluator, as well as being one of the top quarterback instructors for both pro and college QBs.

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Robinson with the Cincinnati Bengals

He spent four years in the NFL after being drafted in the seventh round by the New England Patriots. He also had stops with the Seattle Seahawks, the Detroit Lions and ironically the Cincinnati Bengals.

Robinson had a record setting career at Oklahoma State as he finished fourth all-time in pass attempts with 999, fourth all-time in completions with 610, fourth all-time in passing yards with 8,317, third all-time in touchdown passes with 66. He was also one of the all-time top rushing quarterbacks in Oklahoma State history.