Daily Bullets
Daily Bullets (Dec 7) – Barry Sanders’ Record(s) Still Stand, Les Miles’ Homecoming to the Big 12
Barry’s Big Day
In a great piece looking at Barry Sanders historic season, this detail of Barry’s season still stands.
Let’s count for real here, not using the NCAA’s bowl exclusion:
2,850 rushing yards is more than anyone’s ever gained at any level of college or pro football. Division III Mount Union’s Nate Kmic had 2,790 in 15 games in 2008, compared to Sanders’ 12.
44 touchdowns are tied with Kmic for the most ever and ahead of anyone else in NCAA history. Again, that’s with Kmic playing in three more games.
Therefore, Sanders did in a power conference what nobody else could do even in non-scholarship football. [SB Nation]
It’s just amazing that no one at any level with a few more games has beaten this rushing record.
Les is Back
It’s been nearly a decade and a half since Les Miles was in Stillwater – but what he did still impacts the Pokes every day.
Hard to believe it’s been 14 years since those strange days in San Antonio, with Miles running a shell game with reporters, OSU administrators and OSU coaches over his interest in LSU.
“We laugh about it now,” Gundy said Tuesday after the Cowboys’ Liberty Bowl practice.
Gundy laughs a lot about Miles, the man who hired him off the Maryland staff to be OSU offensive coordinator in ’01. [TulsaWorld]
Les Miles did a masterful job building a staff in Stillwater featuring future head coaches like Gundy and Todd Monken. Thank goodness he did.
OSU and NCAA Notes
On the villainy of college football….11W on Urban Meyer leaving was great….Kyler Murray beat out Tua for player of the year (and both are Heisman worthy)….Tylan Wallace named a finalist for the Earl Campbell award….Jahmyl Jeter getting some carries in practice
NFL-related but man… what a run.
This dude @KingHenry_2 hit a cat w/ the Bruce Lee 6 inch punch to the neck & then threw another dude out the stadium on the same play!! DEEZAMN!! #TitanUp pic.twitter.com/nsilmRkVST
— Tank Williams (@TankWilliams13) December 7, 2018
Among other stats, this one shines in the pro-Tylan for Biletnikoff argument.
Both Jerry Jeudy (Alabama) and Tylan Wallace (#okstate) played five games against currently ranked opponents.
In those games:
Wallace: 37 catches, 691 yards, 18.7 yards per catch, seven touchdowns
Jeudy: 26 catches, 397 yards, 15.3 yards per catch, two touchdowns— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) December 7, 2018
Quite a sophomore season regardless.
Congrats to Tylan Wallace on a season worthy of All-America honors! #okstate #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/SsrHcn9i1Q
— Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) December 7, 2018
Yesterday on PFB
- Gundy took the helicopter to see a juco defensive end
- Porter’s five things we learned about OSU Football in 2018
- Nathan Ruiz joins the PFB pod to talk Cowboy Basketball and Gundy
- Assistant coach salaries were released, Yurcich is pretty high
- What’s the new transfer rule and how is it affecting OSU?
A Break from the News
- How to enjoy life
- “Baby it’s cold outside” isn’t aging well with society (my favorite Christmas song)
- A business with no end
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