The 11 Best Stats From Oklahoma State’s Win Over TCU

What an afternoon in Stillwater. It’s hard to boil this game down to just 11 stats, but here are the ones I found most compelling.

1. Mason Rudolph’s first 5 TD game

Only Josh Fields (2003 SMU and 2002 Kansas) and Brandon Weeden (2010 Tulsa) Have had more in a game. Fields had the famous seven TD game against SMU and six against Kansas. Weeden had six against Tulsa. It felt like Rudolph could have had 10 if they’d let him ride until the end.

2. TCU ran 110 plays. A hundred and ten!

Only one team has run more this season (Colorado against UCLA last week which Matt Hinton noted was a FBS record).

Colorado ran 114 plays vs. UCLA which (far as I can tell) is an FBS record for regulation. N'western ran 115 in 2010 Outback Bowl, in OT.

— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) October 31, 2015

TCU was five plays from running more plays than any team has ever run in a FBS game. Wow.

TCU ran 57 more plays than OSU. This has happened two other times since 2000 in games featuring two FBS teams.

— Dave Hudson (@okc_dave) November 8, 2015

3. OSU and Alabama

The only two teams that have wins over AP top five teams this season? How about Alabama and Oklahoma State. That’s also the fifth time since 2008 that Oklahoma State has beaten a team in the AP top 10.

4. Yards per play differential

Oklahoma State, despite running 57 fewer plays than TCU, posted a tidy yards per play mark of 8.60. That’s some 2011 territory right there. TCU? Also pretty good at 6.03. Like Poke pointed out, though, it felt like they needed another 11 quarters to catch the Cowboys.

Pick six. Tcu needs like 299 plays to score enough points to win

— thinks we go 8-4 guy (@Pokelahoma) November 8, 2015

5. Mason Rudolph was nearly perfect

Mason Rudolph’s QBR was 96.1 on Saturday. That was the fifth-best performance of the weekend and the 31st best individual QB performance of anybody all year. It’s hard to imagine somebody being much better than he was.

6. In its last 52 home games

OSU is 43-9 in its last 52 home games going back to 2008. It is 31-6 since 2010. Only Nebraska, OU (3x), Texas (3x), West Virginia and Kansas (!) have beaten OSU at home since 2008.

7. Trevone Boykin, oops

Boykin came into Saturday having thrown five INTs in 297 attempts on the season. Then he threw four (the most he’s ever had in his career) on his next 57 attempts against Glenn Spencer’s unit.

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More on Boykin.

Trevon Boykin's Stillwater fate much like RGIII's: 3 career games in Stillwater: 2 TD passes, 8 ints., 0-3 record. #okstate

— Dave Hunziker (@Gopokesvoice) November 8, 2015

8. All the James Washington stats

There are many, but this is probably the most preposterous:

From the Texas Tech game through the TCU game, Washington scored on four straight touches of 75 yards, 73 yards, 48 yards and 50 yards. Literally all he did was score four straight times he got the ball (246 yards total). Incredible.

9. About that explosive offense

This is straight from the OSU athletic dept.

OSU has scored a total of 177 points (58+70+49) in its last three games, which is tied for the second-highest point total in a three-game stretch in school history.

Wait, whaaaat?!

The Cowboys scored 187 points in their first three games of the 2012 season (vs. Savannah State, Arizona and Louisiana) and had 177 during a span of three games in 2011 that included Baylor, Kansas State and Texas Tech.

10. Grind it out on offense?

Nope. The Cowboys’ longest scoring drive of the game lasted 1:13. The offense had scoring drives of 0:03, 0:26, 0:46, 0:49, 0:57 and 1:13.

11. Put Chad Whitener on offense

Whitener had more picks in the TCU game than Kevin Peterson and Ashton Lampkin have on the year combined.

#OKstate Mike Gundy (maybe) joking about LB Chad Whitener: “He’s got good hands. We should probably be using him on offense.”

— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) November 8, 2015