Football

Wait, Which Conference Has the Best OSU in the Country?

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9 years ago

October 13, 2015

Kyle Porter

Let’s talk.

Oklahoma State has not been pretty so far this year.

“Well, we won. We didn’t lose. So on to the next week …” is how Mike Gundy said it after the West Virginia game on Saturday. I thought that was fitting.

What’s interesting to me is that, outside of Baylor, nobody is really blowing teams away. Take last year’s champ (and this year’s favorite) Ohio State. I put together a little blind resume for both OSU’s to see if you could distinguish between them.

Here’s the legend: Sagarin | PPD = points per drive in non-garbage time against FBS teams | FEI = drive efficiency | S&P = play by play data

	Team 1	Team 2
Strength of schedule (Sagarin)	No. 86	No. 54
Margin of victory	37-17	37-20
PPD (Offense)	2.54	2.52
PPD (Defense)	1.15	1.48
Yards per play (Offense)	6.68	6.13
Yards per play (Defense)	4.11	4.54
FEI	No. 10	No. 13
S&P	No. 28	No. 34
Sagarin rank	No. 14	No. 18
Wins over top 30 (Sagarin)	0	2
Wins over top 50 (FEI)	1	2
Number of QBs	2	2
Record	6-0	6-0

On paper, those teams are pretty similar, right? Team 1 is Ohio State. Team 2 is Oklahoma State. Now, Ohio State has struggled relative to what many folks thought it would be. Maybe the same could have been said of Oklahoma State.

But if you would have told me that going into the bye week in mid-October that Oklahoma State and Ohio State would both be 6-0 and comparable in loads of statistical categories … hooo boy. I would have been pretty pleased with that.

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