Oklahoma State Offense Rising In Offensive Points Per Drive

I thought it would be intriguing to break this week’s points per drive numbers into tiers. These numbers don’t tell the entire story because different teams have played different schedules, but I think they do a pretty good job of showing which Big 12 teams have a good offense/defense two-thirds of the way through the year.

All numbers from BCF Toys.

Big 12 Defense

Texas Tech is an embarrassment to this statistic. They rank No. 127 in the country in points per drive allowed after only allowing 17 in regulation to TCU! Only Bowling Green is worse.

Since I started housing Glenn Spencer and Co. a month ago, they have come on strong. OSU is firmly in the second tier of defenses thus far with TCU and Kansas State, incidentally two of the final four teams they play. If OSU can keep that number around two for the rest of the season, they have a real chance to win out.

“I think our rotation and the depth that we have has helped us up to this point,” said Gundy on Monday. This was the first time that we felt like we could play two defensive lines since I’ve been the head coach here. That’s been our goal from day one, it’s just taken us a long time to accomplish it. It goes back to the switch we made four years ago with the scholarship numbers.”

Big 12 Offense

Kansas, my dudes, basketball starts this week! Oklahoma State is also in the second tier here behind Texas Tech, OU and Baylor, incidentally two of the other teams it faces the rest of the way.

“Our ability to run the ball a little more effective this year has given us other options when last year it was just protect and keep chunkin’ it down the field, which I’ve never been comfortable with,” Gundy said of the offense on Monday afternoon.

November is going to be rough on both Mike Yurcich and Glenn Spencer, but Oklahoma State is starting to establish itself as a real force in this year’s Big 12. Now it just has to keep it up.