Five Interesting Quotes After OSU’s 45-40 Loss to Kansas State

After OSU licked its wounds from a 45-40 stunner to Kansas State on Saturday, Mike Gundy, Mike Yurcich, Glenn Spencer and others spoke with the media to break down what went wrong and what’s next.

Here were the five best quotes that came out of those interviews. (Spoiler: There aren’t many!)

Bill Snyder on being an underdog

“They don’t surprise me. Because it’s expected. I expect them to play well, and I expect them to be successful ballgame in and ballgame out. There isn’t anything that was a surprise. They got closer to playing to what I would expect they’re capable of playing.”

Mike Gundy on who is at fault

“In my opinion, we should’ve won that game just based on talent from top to bottom. It’s got nothing to do with Kansas State. I have all the respect in the world for their staff, all the respect in the world for their players. But we should’ve played better and we should’ve done enough to win the football game. It’s not always that way but in my opinion that’s the way I felt. So I give them a lot of credit for what they brought in, for rallying, for making plays in the end. They made the last plays out here and we didn’t. I told the team that too, that’s exactly what I told them, is that, ‘You should’ve won this game, and that’s not you as players. That’s coaches and players as a group. We as an organization should’ve played well enough at home to win the game.’ But that’s why we play the games, it doesn’t always fall that way.”

Glenn Spencer on defensive adjustments

“They do a good job when they start stacking their run game. After that first drive they had a couple double leads … and quarterback runs. We had to stiffen it up, and that means some guys are on islands and have to make plays … staying as deep as the deepest sometimes … and keep it in front of you. I thought we answered back on the run game, but we were definitely not strong enough in all phases. That’s very evident.”

Mike Yurcich on the out route to James Washington in the final offensive series

“It was open. I think everybody in the stadium saw that. That’s a guy who has made that catch a million times, and he’s got to put that one past him and move on down the road. That’s the nature of the beast. You throw a guy 500 balls in a season, he’s going to drop one. It’s just one of those things where James has to get over that and move on to next week.”

Mike Gundy on coming out flat

“For whatever reason I can’t figure out what I’m doing or not doing that keeps us from showing up in the first half of our home games, and I shared that with the team. We all need to look at ourselves and figure out what’s going on because we, for whatever reason, we’re not showing up and we get in a hole. And then today we were in an unbelievably deep hole. Quite honestly I don’t know how we got back in it at the point to where we had a real chance to win in the end and then couldn’t execute. We couldn’t throw we couldn’t catch, which chances of that happening were slim in my opinion.