Daily Bullets (Aug. 16): Top 25 Talk, Being Higher on the Pokes this Winter

Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news.

OSU Bullets

• OSU landed in the top 15 in the preseason AP top 25

– A history of OSU in the AP Top 25
– The Pokes were one of four teams to go from unranked in the preseason to the top ten at the end of the year:

After a brief lull — only two combined teams went from unranked to top 10 in 2019-20 — we saw a mini-explosion last year, when four teams did the deed: Michigan, Baylor, Oklahoma State and Michigan State.

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• The Cowboys landed the next Tom Hutton, another Australian punter

• Scroll down to the second team to read about why this pundit has Oklahoma State Men’s Basketball as one of the teams to be higher on after the offseason

• Comparing where the Pokes landed in the AP Top 25 to where they landed in the PFF Top 25

• Kenny Monday was hired to coach a college wrestling program

• Soon, indeed.

Non-OSU Bullets

• Brett Yormark is one of the most intriguing figures in college football this season
• Flew through this fun summer read – a spy thriller