‘It Was Unbelievable’: Oklahoma State Players Celebrate Oregon Upset with Field-Storming Cowboy Fans

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STILLWATER — Maybe the Cowboys just needed running back Caleb Hawkins back inside Boone Pickens.

In 2023, he attended the final Bedlam and rushed the field with the rest of the Cowboy faithful.

“I barely escaped getting hit by the goal post,” Hawkins said.

This time around, Hawkins was the one giving fans a reason to storm the field after he rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown in Oklahoma State’s 39-31 win.

It goes down as the program’s first top-10 win since Hawkins watched the Cowboys beat the Sooners in that infamous Bedlam game in 2023.

Within what felt like seconds of the final whistle, Hawkins found himself hugging his younger brother Tyson Hawkins.

“It was unbelievable,” Caleb said. “I took off my helmet, kinda tried to sit it down so I didn’t hit nobody with it. I hugged onto him tight. Tried not to get too emotional because I was excited, but it was a great feeling.”

Emotions were high across BPS as Oklahoma State fans stormed the field to celebrate the Cowboys’ first win over an FBS team in a drought that was just two days short of turning two years old.

“It was awesome,” receiver Wyatt Young said. “I mean, I’ve never experienced anything like that, and it felt great to give these fans a real good W for them. It’s been a long time for them, and yeah, it just felt great in that moment. So I was (like) I’ll take any pictures I had to.”

Young and several other players quickly found themselves engulfed by an orange mass of humanity. When fans weren’t taking pictures or making plans to party after the game, most of them were cheering for the goalposts to be taken down.

The ones in the west end zone didn’t last very long.

“It was awesome,” linebacker Ethan Wesloski said of the field storming. “I just kind of got swarmed, and you know, people I’ve never seen before (saying) ‘We love you. We love you. Good job. Good job.’ To have that support is awesome.

“So for me just being able to sit there and you know take that support, you work so hard and it feels good to have someone loving you like that. So, I love our fans, and I challenge them every week to be better and better.”

At one point, Wesloski asked fans to give him some space, and he crouched down for about 30 seconds to a minute.

“Just taking it in, right,” Wesloski said of that moment. “This, you know, I’m in my fifth year of football. God-willing, I play for a long time after this, correct.

“But you don’t get too many moments like that. You know, we beat a very big football team, and we earned it. And so for me to kind of take it in, take a step back. Thank my Lord and Savior Jesus too, for the abilities I have, and you know put me in the spot I am. So just take a step back. … It was just to take the moment in for me. It was awesome.”

Unlike his teammates, defensive end James Williams is something of a veteran of field stormings by now after helping Nebraska beat Colorado (led by Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders) by 18 points in 2024, and Florida State upset then-No. 8 Alabama by 14 points last season.

“That’s my third field storm that I’ve been a part of, and it gets better every time,” Williams said. “You know, because that’s a moment you’re never going to forget about.

“It’s a moment that everybody in that stadium is not going to forget about. Like that invokes Oklahoma State beating Oklahoma for the last time. You know what I mean? Like that, that’s a memory that every single kid that’s in that stadium is going to cherish.”