Winners and Losers From the Oklahoma State-TCU Game

It’s Monday which means we need to look at a few winners and losers from the Oklahoma State-TCU game over the weekend. Let’s get right to work.

Kyle Porter

Winner: Mason Rudolph’s dual threat-ness — Rudolph has become a legitimate running threat over the last six weeks. Like, when he drops back now there are times when I think, “run it!” Can you imagine ever thinking this with Brandon Weeden. With No. 2’s precision this year (64 percent passing) and ability to protect the ball (four INTs), this makes him (and OSU) that much more difficult to defend.

Winner: FOX — Bedlam is now the Big 12 championship game. For some reason they refuse to put it in primetime (it better not be at 11 a.m.), but for the second-straight year, the TV networks get a de facto conference championship game to end the year. This year’s is even on championship weekend!

Loser: Kenny Trill — Again, what am I looking at here? What does he do well? I know he threw for a ton of yards against OU (who hasn’t?), but I thought he was average at best on Saturday. Remember when his family trademarked the “Kenny Trill” slogan after he put up 934 yards of total offense against South Carolina a few years ago? Yeah, me either.

Kyle Cox

Winner: Glenn Spencer from the booth — His defense has shown flashes these last seven games since he moved upstairs but they put it all together on Saturday in Ft. Worth. This may have been his unit’s best outing in the last two seasons, Hopefully there is some carry-over in two weeks when they face the most balanced offense in the Big 12.

Winer: Greg Adkins — He has performed wonders in his time in Stillwater. We all wanted him to get this o-line going faster than was maybe even possible but after a couple years with these guys and bringing his own recruits in, we are finally starting to see results. The Cowboys ran the ball better than I can remember against a decent if not good defense. There is still plenty of room for improvement but they are on the right track.

Loser: Gary Patterson — He lost more than just another game. His team is now 5-5 and has to worry about making getting bowl eligible after suffering their worst home loss in nearly 20 years. This just goes to show how important QB play is in this league all leagues. Patterson didn’t trust his dual-threat QB with the ball in the red zone. That’s not a great spot to be in.

Loser: Barry J. Sanders — Man did I see this year going differently for Sanders. Not only has he found himself at the bottom of the running back depth chart, he has fumbled muffed punts in two of the last three weeks. After a Week 1 debut that left us all the warm and fuzzy, we have seen another lackluster season in the return game from OSU.

Sam Aldrich

Winners: Chris Carson and Justice Hill — They should deservedly get a lot of credit for their fantastic work, but I also have to give the big uglies up front some props. The Cowboys have averaged 190 yards per game on the ground from the Baylor game on, and it’s been a combination of fantastic running from Carson/Hill and holes like these to run through

Winner: Glenn Spencer — In a year full of disappointing defensive performances, the Cowboy defense turned in their biggest and most dominant outing of the season. Facing a TCU offense that dropped 62 in Waco a week ago, the defense locked it down all afternoon.

Aside from a touchdown allowed per Barry J. Sanders fumbling a punt inside his own 10-yard-line, the defense pitched a shutout, holding the Horned Frogs to 343 yards of offense and six points (TCU averages 493.3 yards of total offense per game, and 34.3 points per game on the year.) Job well done.

Loser: TCU safety Nick Orr and cornerback Julius Lewis — Are we sure they’ve gotten up after this bulldozing run from Chris Carson? It’s entirely possible, even likely, they are still laying on that field, two days later. Goodness.

Here is another look at Chris Carson truck-sticking the entire DFW metroplex. pic.twitter.com/caf8gUbicq

— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguys) November 19, 2016