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The Nine Best (and Worst) Stats From the Oklahoma State-Baylor Game

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I’m not sure how to qualify “best” because none of them were great on Saturday night. But these were the nine that most stood out.

1. For every rushing yard OSU gained, Baylor gained 38

How about that. Baylor rushed for 303 yards on 73 carries (Ohio State, by the way, has faced 73 or more total plays just three times all season in a single game). Oklahoma State rushed for eight yards on 23 carries. The record books don’t go that low.

Six different Baylor players had more rushing yards than Oklahoma State did as a team.

2. Rudolph and Weeden are alone

Here are the 400-yard games in OSU history:

Brandon Weeden — 7
Mason Rudolph — 3
Every other QB that has ever attended OSU combined — 4

That’s pretty good.

Rudolph also has six 300-yard games this season (and six for his career) which is second all time behind Weeden’s 16. Mason Rudolph is pretty good, you guys.

3. OSU has faced 368 plays in last four games

It faced 110 against TCU, 94 against Texas Tech, 104 against Baylor and just 60 against Iowa State. Everyone keeps wanting to talk about total yards but look at how many plays are run against OSU. It’s insane that they still have 11 humans upright for Bedlam, much less an entire defense. Clemson, for example, had faced 626 in 10 games coming into today. Throw one of those big boy defenses in the Big 12 blender and let’s see what happens.

4. Seven hundy! ?

I got nothing.

5. Ogbah gets No. 12

Emmanuel Ogbah got his 12th sack of the season on Saturday which means if he gets one in Bedlam or the bowl game, it will be the third-most ever in a single year in Oklahoma State history.

6. Rudolph is streaking

Since the West Virginia game, Mason Rudolph has thrown 12 TDs and just 1 INT. Also, here are his home/road splits after this game.

Home — 64% | 368 yds/game | 16 TD | 2 INT
Road — 62% | 277 yds/game | 5 TD | 6 INT

7. Chad Whitener had 19 tackles

I’m running out of positive numbers. That is a lot.

8. 43:16

That’s how much time elapsed in the game before Baylor punted for the first time. When you lose the punting battle to Baylor 10-2, that usually means you’re not going to walk away with the win.

9. Winning the turnover margin

On the other hand, since 2000, Oklahoma State was 15-0 when turning a team over 3+ times and not turning it over once. Now it is 15-1. Let’s take that a little further. In the 85 D1 games this season in which a team had not turned it over at all on its own but forced three on the other side, those teams were 77-8. Add another to the L column.

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