Daily Mullets (September 19)

Football News

Rudolph is allowed to check off of plays whenever he wants it sounds like. Rudolph:Coach Yurcich and Gundy have done an awesome job with giving me that freedom and that ability to check in things when I see certain looks that we’ve prepared for.” [NewsOK]

Superlatives from the Pitt game. Good stuff here from Kyle Boone. [PFB]

Pitt DE: “Facing a tempo team is one of the challenges of trying to get a rush over and over again. When we didn’t (get pressure) it really showed downfield.” [NewsOK]

Mike & Mike praised No. 2 for his performance on Saturday. [PFB]

[Mason Rudolph’s] 20.77 yards per completion set a single-game school record (min. 20 completions) and his 46 pass attempts without a single interception rank as the fourth-best single-game mark in school history. [okstate]

James Washington: “Coach always says if you just go watch the guy that you’re going to go against, he’ll do exactly what he did last week.” [Tulsa World]

All the awards for James Washington! [PFB]

There you go.

Baylor is favored by 10 over #okstate next week. Bears have won 3 of last 4 in the series. Only B12 team undefeated vs. Rudolph.

— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguys) September 18, 2016

So great.

@pistolsguy saw you post about the rainbow pictures, here's one I caught at the game pic.twitter.com/pHCH638rqP

— Zach Collums (@zach_collums) September 18, 2016

I laughed at this.

I'm having so much fun looking at people. I loved guy with orange pants. Then I spotted poor ou guy @pistolsguy pic.twitter.com/qb817z9i9g

— d (@dbeeze_) September 19, 2016

Around the League

Berry Tramel says 2015 OU isn’t as good as we though. Good take. [NewsOK]

He also has OSU No. 2 in his Big 12 power ranking. [NewsOK]

Interesting … Robert Allen says the B12 hope of putting a team in the CFP is over. Now, after you likely were long asleep Saturday night/Sunday morning, so were the Big 12 dreams of having a CFP playoff team in 2016. If Baylor, Texas, OSU or WVU win out then they would all get in though so I dunno. [Go Pokes – $]

Max Olson has OSU No. 3 in his Big 12 Power Rankings. [ESPN]

Wow.

For the first time since the conference's inception in 1996, the Big 12 does NOT have a team ranked in the top 15 of the AP football poll.

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) September 18, 2016

Other sports

OSU lost to Illinois at the Fighting Illini Invitational over the weekend. [okstate]

This is pretty awesome. Michael Phelps sent Desmond Mason’s daughter an inspirational message this weekend.

When your Daughter works her butt off and they get beat anyway and she cries after the game because she hates to lose and your BIG HOMIE and THE GREATEST TO EVER HOP IN A POOL @m_phelps00 sends her a inspirational message to never give up and keep working hard! The look on her face was amazing!!! Thanks MP for the vid and the Olympic memories bro, THE BEST IS YET TO COME FOR YOU and YOUR FAMILY! #inspiration #prouddaddy #GOAT #michaelPHELPS #NEXTLEVEL #LIVE #LIVELIFE #BESTEVER #JADA #BEAN #POP #THANKS #hardwork #nevergiveup #dreamHUGE #REALFRIENDSALWAYSGOTYOU #amazingMOMENT

A post shared by Desmond Mason Art™ (@dmasonart) on Sep 18, 2016 at 7:31am PDT

More Stuff I’m Reading

How Slack stole a multi-billion dollar market. [Medium]

Why Medium placed its bet on attention metrics. [Ad Exchanger]