Bedlam Recap: What You Missed on PFB Over the Weekend

Bedlam was maniacal. It always is. Because of that, sometimes stuff gets lost in the mix. It’s tough to keep up with all the #content when we’re all creating it on Twitter and other places anyway. So we wanted to anchor some of our stuff in a weekend recap. In case you missed anything, here’s a showcase of the last few days of Bedlam material.

• Kyle Boone on Gundy’s call to go for it all was awesome. I edited it and howled in the press box atop Owen Field.

Everyone witnessed in real time his figurative guts exposed and literal mullet dangling in the cold Norman night and respected his gumption to lay it all on the line. A kicked PAT may have been risky after bringing it to within one point, especially after Matt Ammendola’s missed field goal earlier in the game, but going for 2 was hitting the dealer on 17. He knew he was close, and damn, he wanted all of it. There would be no tail-tucking. [PFB]

• Tylan Wallace has destroyed Texas and OU in two of the last three weeks.

During OSU’s upset of No. 6 Texas, Wallace caught 10 of his 17 targets for 222 yards and two TDs. Against OU on Saturday? He caught 10 of his 17 targets for 220 yards and two TDs. [PFB]

His reward? How about a nomination as a Biletnikoff semifinalist.

• Thankfully for me, Kyle Boone forced me out of the stadium on Saturday evening because I could have written these 10 Thoughts until kickoff for the West Virginia game. Here’s how they ended.

OSU failed to convert from two yards away. Before that Chuba fumbled with a chance to again go up late. Before that Ammendola missed the extra point. Before that OSU got the ball on its own 40 late in the third in a great spot to go up but ceded a punt after gaining 24 yards. Before that … before that … before that.

In an unforgiving evening, OSU missed so many opportunities to save what will be remembered as a lost season. For Gundy (and for us all), another Bedlam. Another Bedlam what-if. [PFB]

• Film study from Goose is always great: OSU offense | OSU defense

• Kyle Cox wrote about special teams from an angle you may not have considered in real time (or at least I didn’t). Good stuff here.

Matt Ammendola has had his history of slumps and head-scratching misses but has been mostly dependable and has shown off YouTube-worthy range during his career. But his connection with Bedlam will undoubtedly have a negative connotation. [PFB]

• I tried to parse through the silliness of OSU losing to a bad Kansas State team but beating Texas and nearly pulling off the Texas-OU double.

Maybe that’s not it, I don’t know. Part of the fun of seasons and this silly sport is trying to figure out what makes teams play well or play poorly and how they’re going to perform against each other. For the last few weeks, even leading into Bedlam, I was convinced the Texas performance stood alone as the outlier of the season, but now OSU has an even better performance to point to (even in a loss) than the one against Texas. [PFB]

• Boone on Corn duty was ?, which is exactly how ? played on Saturday.

By passing for 501 yards and three scores in the 48-47 loss, Cornelius thrust himself among the OSU elites: Only Brandon Weeden and Mason Rudolph, quarterbacking royalty at the top of the OSU lexicon, have hit the half-a-thousand mark. Sealing a signature win by completing a two-point conversion would have been icing on the cake for an historically awesome showing. [PFB]

I have watched this many, many times. What a throw. What a moment.

• Gundy called it “a hell of a college football game.” Riley said it “lived up to the rivalry.” They aren’t the only ones who thought that, either. Bedlam notched the highest peak rating for the Week 11 college football slate.

• We did two postgame videos on Saturday (because the first one cut out).

https://www.facebook.com/pistolsfiring/videos/745003792551766/

https://www.facebook.com/pistolsfiring/videos/200622624161644/