Oklahoma State was shut out, but it was about as encouraging as a 42-0 game could be.<\/p>\n
OSU suffered yet another big loss against No. 14 Texas Tech on Saturday, but not everything about the game was awful. While OSU dug a big hole early, it never stopped fighting and put together a solid outing, all things considered.<\/p>\n
Answers to burning questions for Oklahoma State\u2019s loss at Texas Tech:<\/p>\n
This question has some mixed answers after what happened on Saturday. Sure, it\u2019s easy to say a 42-0 game that was 13-0 just over two minutes in was never competitive, but there is still a bit more nuance to this situation.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys probably never had much of a chance, and the Red Raiders were almost certainly never in any danger, but the Cowboys had some chances to keep the game respectable. Whether it was turnovers or missed opportunities on either side of the ball, OSU couldn\u2019t break through and make the plays it needed to keep it legitimately close, but the Cowboys still showed some fight throughout.<\/p>\n
Overall, it\u2019s hard to take too much away from a game that ended in a shutout and saw Texas Tech\u2019s third-string quarterback take over for a large chunk of the game. Still, the Cowboys were able to find some positives throughout the afternoon, even if it didn\u2019t fully show up on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
The turnovers forced and the occasional big play on either side were still a far cry from what OSU was able to do against Cincinnati, but it was still an encouraging sign to see the Pokes at least make some plays and keep the Red Raiders from running up the score too much.<\/p>\n
Considering OSU\u2019s offense couldn\u2019t muster a single point and couldn\u2019t even reach 200 total yards for the day, the defense would have been the de facto pick, but Clint Bowen\u2019s unit certainly deserves some love. Against a high-powered Texas Tech offense, OSU allowed 42 points but only let the Red Raiders rack up 370 total yards, their second-fewest total yards of the season, only better than their loss at Arizona State a week earlier.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, those 370 yards allowed were the fewest OSU has allowed against an FBS team this season. Although OSU\u2019s offense often gave the Red Raiders good field position and didn\u2019t exactly make Texas Tech work too hard for its points, the Cowboy defense was still solid throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma State was shut out, but it was about as encouraging as a 42-0 game could be. OSU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-21994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}