Daily Bullets (Nov. 10): As Ollie Goes, So Goes the Cowboys

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

OSU Bullets

• Weekend watch guide for the Cowboy Football fan plus tv crew and betting details for the UCF game (PFB + PFB)

• Some Cowboys are up for national awards:
– Alex Hale is semi-finalist for the kicker award
– Jake Springfield made the cut for the former walkon of the year
– Would be nice to see Ollie up for a slew of things (Maxwell, Heisman, Doak Walker) and Joe Michalski for the Rimington and Outland 

• Ollie Gordon’s award candidacy is partly driven and framed by OSU’s slow start – and the direct correlation between his carries and OSU wins. 

He carried the ball only 19 times in his first three games but has rushed for 995 yards and scored 11 touchdowns during the Pokes’ five-game winning streak, and three of the five opponents were in the top 25 of the first College Football Playoff rankings. A fourth opponent, West Virginia, is 6-3. So it’s not like Gordon is rolling up Barry Sanders-like numbers against bottom-feeders.

[ESPN]

• Previewing the OSU-UCF game (HCS)

• OSU signed a point guard earlier this week during the early signing day (PFB)

• This article has the Pokes “underrated” at No. 15 in the College Football Playoff (247 Sports)

• What a huge swing: 

#OKState turnover margin:

Games 1-4: -3
Games 5-9: +8*

*Best among Big 12 teams during that time.

— Cody Nagel (@CodyNagel247) November 10, 2023

Non-OSU Bullets

• What happened to our mental bandwidth?
• Ambitious for the quiet life (faith-based)

Inside a real-life “sand castle” house (not really but designed like one):