Six Things to Know as OSU Goes for First Win in Waco Since 2009

Oklahoma State hasn’t won in Waco since 2009. I wrote about that more here, but I find it to be one of the more remarkable stats I’ve stumbled upon this season. That’s pretty easily the longest such streak of futility against any Big 12 team on the road, and it took almost a perfect series of events for it to come to fruition.

Mike Gundy and Co. will try and make it two in a row on Saturday (and two in a row over Baylor) on the Bears’ homecoming as OSU tries to accomplish a few other things as well, maybe most notably attaining bowl eligibility. Here are six things you need to know for the game against Baylor.

• 62-10: If OSU wins on Saturday they’ll move to 63-10 in their last 73 games against unranked opponents. One loss a year to unranked teams over the course of nine years is kind of amazing, especially considering the fact that three of those have come this season.

• 17-3: Another “if OSU wins …” stat — and this one might be even crazier than the first. If OSU beats Baylor they will be 17-3 in their last 20 true road games. Seventeen and three!

• TO Margin: Gundy doesn’t really lose when OSU wins the turnover battle. OSU is 58-5 since 2008 when winning that part of the game. A good case study in this is the 2016 game when Justice Hill coughed it up in Waco and OSU turned it over four times to Baylor’s two in the L.

• Big Play Corn? I thought this was interesting. Despite his seeming inability to go really deep, Corndaddy has made a killing at going kinda deep. OSU is No. 3 in the nation in 20+yard passing plays behind only Ole Miss and Al-uh-Bam-uh.

• Tylan’s Spot: Tylan Wallace’s 222-yard game last Saturday felt huge, but I didn’t really know how huge at the time. Turns out it was one of the 10 biggest games of the season so far for a wide receiver. He’ll try to one-up that (or more?) in Waco.

• All the plays: The last time OSU played a team that ran 100+ plays on them? That would be in 2015 when Baylor ran one-hundred and four (!) in Stillwater. That’s 73 rushes (!!!) and 31 passes. To put this in perspective, OSU ran just 74 total plays. The Pokes lost as the No. 4 team in the country, 45-35.