Daily Bullets (November 12)

Football news

“Fight song” is the greatest name ever for an offensive play and Mike Yurcich is a genius for stealing it. (CRFF)

Oklahoma State-TCU got a better rating than OU-Iowa State and Philly-Dallas. (NewsOK)

Ryan Simmons is the man. Keeps coming to meetings. Keeps helping the team out. (Tulsa World)

Cool story on how Pistol Pete helped one man get through the Vietnam War. (NewsOK)

I was thinking about writing this, now I don’t have to. On that Trevone Boykin goal line stand as told by players and coaches. (NewsOK)

The Cowboys lead the country, averaging about +6.4 PPG in turnovers luck. So it might be clouding us a bit. (SB Nation)

Trace Clark on learning from Jimmy Bean and Emmanuel Ogbah: “I was able to learn from them, watching them, seeing some of the moves they were using. That way, when I get my opportunities in a game, I can move right in and keep that production high.” (NewsOK)

Re-ranking Top 25 teams by QB. OSU third. (ESPN)

Zac Veatch watches Sex in the City. (okstate)

Pokes by 10 this weekend? Pokes by 10 this weekend. (SB Nation)

College football Playoff

My thoughts on the rankings. (PFB)

Carson and I did a straight fire podcast on the rankings. (PFB)

“Again, as we said before, the majority of the Big 12’s strength in there, strength of schedules, are here at the back end of the season,” Long said. “So we will see in the coming weeks.” You might have seen something already from Oklahoma State. The committee clearly has a different view. (ESPN)

Road victories at Kansas State, West Virginia and Texas Tech don’t carry much weight this season. Wrong. (ESPN)

Berry Tramel doing the dang thing on the committee’s Big 12 offense bias. (NewsOK)

Some strong (and good) thoughts here on the Playoff rankings. (LGG)

That means by season’s end, OSU and Baylor will have played nine Power-5 teams. Iowa will have played 11. Stanford will have played 12. If the Cowboys or Bears get left out, the complaint department will not be open. (NewsOK)

Berry Tramel looks at how the Big 12 could get three teams into the big bowls. (NewsOK)

Around the country

Wait, is Corey Coleman going to win the Heisman? (Yahoo)

Pistols Firing stuff

Joel Klatt houses the Playoff committee. (PFB)

Loved all the flags on campus for Veterans Day. (PFB)

Oklahoma State holds the CFB belt. (PFB)

OSU back in Ames for redemption. (PFB)

Pokes are 20-1 to win it all. (PFB)

Hoops news

This sounds … weird and confusing. (O’Colly)

We got a 6-11 center! (PFB)

Cam McGriff signs. (PFB)

Steph siren. (Big Lead)

Feels like we might be paying Ford too much …

.@OSUCoachFord5 invited dozens of student leaders from across campus to his house for dinner & hoops talk. #okstate pic.twitter.com/fihSBulrRL

— Cowboy Basketball (@OSUMBB) November 12, 2015

More stuff I’m reading

Here’s that Taylor Swift profile I mentioned on the pod. (GQ)

This profile of Michael Phelps is spectacular. (Sports Illustrated)