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Notebook: Oklahoma State-Kansas State

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I tried to write 10 thoughts on the OSU-Kansas State game on Saturday, but, for the second straight week, failed to make much sense out of what I just watched. That’s what the notebook is for, though. Here’s everything I wrote down during a wild one at BPS.

• Joe Hubener, as Carson Cunningham pointed out in the podcast this week, is the most Kansas State quarterback name of all time.

• Not totally sure I get the Chris Carson thing. He’s medically cleared to play but we’re not playing him because … ? Is not 60 percent of Chris Carson as good or maybe better than 100 percent of Raymond Taylor and Jeff Carr? Or at least just to have another body out there.

• When is the last time you saw a No. 19 at QB? That was bizarre.

• It would have been the most Bill Snyder on a long, long list of Bill Snyder things to win a conference road game with a 5th string QB who was a former JUCO walk-on playing wide receiver. And he almost pulled it off. Of course it’s also fitting that KSU’s best passer is playing wide receiver.

• One of the announcers on the FS1 broadcast noted “Mason Rudolph is not a good QB when he has somebody in his face.” Neither is Tom Brady.

• Maybe Rudolph’s fingers are numb because he claps loud enough for every human being in the state of Oklahoma to hear him.

• Congrats if you had $100 on Snyder rocking his Alamo Bowl windbreaker at 3-1 odds.

• I loved that Rudolph absolutely buried the Texas game six minutes into this one. No questions from me but it’s not like there was no smoke there with him and Walsh. He put it away forever.

• Marcell Ateman has been secretly good so far this season which is pretty much the exact opposite of the rest of career in which he was pretty openly below average.

• Kansas State’s first half offensive line vs. an NFC All-Star defensive line. Who you got?

• Something I wrote during the first half: “At least we (probably) don’t tweet during halftime!”

• This is amazing.

• That backwards pass fumble thing (because what else could we call it?) was … not good. I blame, well, everyone. But mostly I blame the offensive line for not giving Rudolph the .7 seconds he needed to throw the ball.

• FOX kept showing Walsh like there was some sort of mild controversy. Good job, good effort, FOX.

• The hold by Victor Salako will get more attention for the first down gift OSU received, but that ball Rudolph threw to Jhajuan Seales in double coverage.

???

• Clown show!

• I’ll probably talk about this more late, but OSU wasn’t even pretending to run. Like the opposite of Texas last week. That makes what Rudolph did that much more impressive.

• Can somebody not get Gundy a clipboard or a play sheet or literally anything so he doesn’t have to keep cupping his mouth when he talks into his headset? Is that not in the budget?

• What do we do about the fact that OSU looked better without a RB than it has so far this season with two?

• Two questions on Hubener: 1. Why was he warming up? Snyder was riding the crap out of that Kody Cook heater as long as possible. 2. How was Hubener not concussed and how in the world did he come back in?

• Dave always brings the heat.

• That two-point conversion. I appreciate the effort and Rudolph deserves an Emmy. The irony is that Walsh up the middle probably would have been sufficient.

https://vine.co/v/e2ZZht0nZvQ

• OSU’s leading rusher into the third quarter (a few minutes into it) was Jalen McCleskey. How much money could you have made on that?

• Why is Brandon Sheperd covering punts? Also, I love you, OSU fans, but it doesn’t matter if Kansas State’s punt returner waves his hand 10 seconds before catching it or after catching it. If he doesn’t have the ball, you can’t touch him, much less lay him out.

• This is a play call. It’s also Mason singing the school song.

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• David Glidden is tough as crap. That is all.

• I’ve probably said it 10 times since the game ended, but OSU did a great job of game planning around its weaknesses. I don’t know that you can do it all season, but until the middle of October, it’s worked.

• This is not untrue.

• Nobody gets hit like Jalen McCleskey gets hit. He gets smoked.

• Kansas State tried to bleed the game out for most of the second half after Cook’s first two passes. I don’t blame them, but outside of that 72-yard pass from Hubener, they had nothing. They were (somehow) actually helped twice by their QB getting knocked out of the game.

• This made me laugh.

• Emmanuel Ogbah now has a sack in 11 of his last 13 games. I play in an OSU fantasy football league (I know, I know) and I’ve drafted him in three out of the five weeks. It’s easy money.

• Challenge for future OSU broadcasters: Try to make it through an OSU game without comparing Glidden to Wes Welker.

• How good would KSU’s 6th-string QB have been? VY? Jameis? Charlie Ward?

• Clint Chelf remains the best.

• The intentional grounding on the handoff to one of the 39 Gronkowski brothers was a huge play because it took KSU to the edge of field goal range. Also, I cannot believe a Gronkowski brother did something boneheaded!

• Rudolph needs to work on his fist pump.

• Spencer.

• I loved that on its biggest play of the season to date, KSU went to a big white guy named Dayton Valentine who beat Kevin Peterson in the end zone. #Snyder

• Speaking of that sequence, did it take more or less than five minutes for the Hubener option to develop when they took the lead 34-33?

• First half summary (and next season of True Detective).

• It really is crazy that in college football, for all the game planning and recruiting and playcalling and everything that goes into it … games so often come down to which team has the better soccer player.

• This made me laugh.

https://vine.co/v/e2ZODXBdEVd

• Boone is the GOAT.

Celebrating #okstate win with party plane selfie.

A post shared by Boone Pickens (@tboonepickens) on

• Speaking of Boone.

• This tweet is pretty much everything. I think it’s the tweet of the year so far.

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