The grades aren't good but they never are when a team finishes 3-9 and last in scoring defense and total defense and 13th in scoring offense and total offense.
Late in the fourth quarter and just down the road from where he did it in high school Ollie Gordon with Trent Howland made for a dangerous ground gobbling Wildcat.
They are both 3-1 and both 0-1 losing last week in the Big 12. One has an offense that can run, the other can pass, so who plays defense and forces turnovers?
It would be great if you could blanket the reasons that Oklahoma State struggled on offense, but it is a shared experience with this week being critical to change fortunes.
There were some simple explanations for some of the concerns coming out of a 45-10 win over Tulsa, but more important the final tune-up for Big12 and opener with Utah.
Oates is a native of Tulsa, Tulsa Hale High School. Then he was at NEO A&M. Now to Oklahoma State where he is playing like his roommate - Ollie Gordon.