Football
Emptying the notebook on OSU and Iowa State
Here’s the best of what happened on Saturday afternoon in Stillwater.
I posted my 10 Thoughts on the OSU-ISU game here but wanted to empty the notebook on things I thought about during the game.
Here we go.
• I do love 11 AM games — I know I wrote that I liked the 2:30 and 6 PM games better but as somebody writing about this stuff and still trying to enjoy my Saturday, I’m all in on the early ones.
• Ashton Lampkin being out didn’t really seem to affect OSU that much. My man Ramon Richards got a ton of playing time which is good both for this season and the ones thereafter.
• Speaking of freshmen getting playing time how about Tre Flowers starting and playing basically the whole game?
The reason:
#OKstate Dave Hunziker says S Larry Stephens was out with an Achilles injury today.
— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) October 4, 2014
• Who was worse: Katy Perry as a GameDay picker or Adarius Bowman as a college basketball player? Toss up for me.
• Look, I know it was the end of the game and I don’t think it’s THAT big of a deal but OSU does have a little big of a “we don’t do Iowa State games anymore” feel sometimes. Not 100 percent of the time, but it happens.
• I wish you could have seen my face when Fox flashed OSU’ three-and-out percentage showing that they are third worst in the country. That’s not good.
• Peak trolling OSU fans by ISU’s kicker.
• OKC Dave and I had this conversation at the Texas Tech game but we realized we’re getting old because we keep thinking current players wearing olf players’ numbers were actually those old players. Today I kept thinking Flowers (No. 31) was Lucien Antoine.
• Sometimes it’s not as complicated as fans want it to be. Sometimes it’s just that an inexperienced, below average (for OSU) offensive line = poor offense.
• This catch was insane.
• Brady Quinn couldn’t stop talking about folks waking up. Tim Brando couldn’t stop talking about folks showing up. If I had a nickel for both I could have bought Fox at halftime and fired them.
• Why doesn’t one of the Sam Richardsons go by “Sammy”?
• I was told that this week’s game was a “classic trap game” for OSU? With Kansas next week..
• Yikes!
• Here’s an idea for an OSU offense: 10 eight-yard slants to Marcell Ateman, touchdown.
• This was pretty good.
Iowa State is threatening to end the 20-point streak. That's like Florida Atlantic ending OSU's non-conference home streak in basketball
— Matt Amilian (@mattamilian) October 4, 2014
• What time do they think humans wake up?
7-on-5 and Daxx got sacked…
• This was true (and worrisome) at one point.
PI is our best play.
— Cowboys Ride For Free (@CowboysRFF) October 4, 2014
• I’m not sure the “14 points in 11 seconds” stat from OSU (Roland end-of-half TD and Tyreek kick return) is getting topped this year. That has to be a near record.
• Another one, OSU scored 31 of its 37 points in 15:05. Wild.
• I thought this was great.
Freekonomics.
— Carson Cunningham (@KOCOCarson) October 4, 2014
• How hard was Brando riding on ISU +17.5? He announced that last drive like it was to win the Rose Bowl.
• We’ll talk more next week but that uni combo is as good as it gets for OSU. Two straight Heisman-level performances.
• Tyreek had 221 all purpose yards. Iowa State had 322 total offensive yards.
• Apologies for screwing up the first goal line photo by not angling the line and just going straight up and down. Not sure what I was thinking.
• Rickie Fowler took a photo with himself.
Let's call some plays http://t.co/3g3xGAnWPb pic.twitter.com/CUpMNsK1Kr
— Rickie Fowler (@RickieFowler) October 4, 2014
• Here was the final Roland TD. Poor ISU was just worn out.
• Amazing.
Looks good to us. pic.twitter.com/7drgJMZ4il
— Big 12 Refs (@Big12Refs) October 4, 2014
• One final time….
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