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Gundy set an Emporia State record for the most total yards by a quarterback in his Hornet and MIAA debut with 391 yards in the Hornets 30-14 Turnpike Tussle win over Washburn.

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Oklahoma State is wanting that, too. They got their feelings hurt a little bit when big brother Oklahoma sailed off to the SEC and put a halt to their Bedlam rivalry. That taste hasn't left the mouths of the Cowboys' faithful.

Beating a team from the SEC might be as big as anything they've ever had at this point. Turning it into a statement win could be even larger. The Razorbacks aren't the only ones that feel they have a lot riding on this game."

@Ponca Dan

I hope you have had a good day and will have a relaxing evening.

Happy birthday, buddy.

Time for a US women to win and a US man to make the semis.

Ok, looked like a good turn out on TV, SDSU traveled really well! Arkansas fans will be trying to buy up tickets if they haven't already so please try to sell/trade tickets with OSU fans!!

Post if you need tickets, post if you have tickets for sale. I know we don't know the face value, so all that I can ask is to be reasonable with your asking price!! this is to get butts in seats not to make a profit, if you want that take your tickets to a 3rd party site and eat the fees.

Had a rock nail our windshield on a Toyota Highlander back in late March. Hit at the bottom of the glass and immediately sent a two foot long crack from bottom to top. Of course this windshield has the need to recalibrate safety sensors in the glass. Total cost of the windshield including recalibration approaches $2K. We filed the insurance claim in April. We find our claim on a national back order that then totaled 500 windshields. Total number is now down to 358. Wow that is real progress. By the time I get the windshield replaced I will be too old to drive. Reached the law of diminishing return relative to this supply chain shit and the cost to replace a piece of glass.

Whoa....I do not fill the least bit better. This country and our ability to do things has totally gone to shit.

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What does it all mean!?!

a picture on the jumbrotron of someone on a motorcycle with a blonde on the back. Just riding thru some hills with some curves and trees. Never falling off just you know just out Sunday riding.

Friday: BYU @ SMU — mustangs -11

OKState vs Ark — Pokes -8.5
Kansas St @ Tulane — Cats -10
Cincy vs Pitt — Bearcats -1
Utah vs Baylor — Utes -15
Iowa St @ Iowa — Hawkeyes -3
WVU vs Albany
UCF vs Sam Houston — Knights -20.5
Kansas @ Illinois — Jayhawks -6
Colorado @ Nebraska —Huskers -7
Houston @ OU — Sooners -29
TCU vs Long Island
Arizona vs Northern Ariz
Texas Tech @ Wash St — EVEN
Arizona St vs Miss St — Sun Devils -6.5

Ark fans sight saying Ollie out for Saturday. Any truth to this?

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@my_2cents @my__2cents @Ponca Dan @CowboyUp what's the spin on this? Why would Kamala do something so stupid to piss off military families AGAIN? She's still dealing with picking a VP that committed Stolen Valor, then this.

What a trainwreck of a campaign. As a Trump supporter, I think she's great!

Oklahoma State vs Arkansas predictions: Who wins Week 2 college football game?​

Justin Martinez
The Oklahoman

The Oklahoma State football team will continue its season with a home game against Arkansas at 11 a.m. Saturday.

OSU (1-0) earned a 44-20 home win over South Dakota State in Week 1, while Arkansas (1-0) earned a 70-0 home win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Cowboys are a 7.5-point favorite over the Razorbacks, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.

Here are score predictions for the game, courtesy of various experts.

The Oklahoman: OSU 31, Arkansas 24​

Justin Martinez writes: "OSU running back Ollie Gordon II should have plenty of success on the ground against Arkansas, which ranked 10th in the SEC in rushing yards allowed per game last season (154.4). But the real difference maker will be Alan Bowman. After throwing for 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions last season, the redshirt senior quarterback threw for three touchdowns and no interceptions in a Week 1 win over South Dakota State. Arkansas' offense, which is led by dual-threat quarterback Taylen Green, will test linebacker Nick Martin and OSU's defense. But if Bowman can continue to limit turnovers in the passing game, Arkansas won't be able to outscore OSU's well-balanced attack."

Heartland College Sports: OSU 34, Arkansas 27​

Matthew Postins writes: "It’s a fool’s errand to try and read too much into a win over an FCS team. Both Oklahoma State and Arkansas beat FCS opponents last week. At least the Cowboys challenged themselves a bit with the two-time defending national champions. UAPB won two games last year. The Cowboys have a .500 record at home against the Razorbacks all-time. They’ll be above .500 after this game."

College Football Network: OSU 34, Arkansas 27​

Colin Lynch writes: "Arkansas’ real question is on the defensive side of the football. The Razorbacks ranked 80th in team defense in 2023, allowing nearly 28 points per game and an average of 154 rushing yards per game. If that hasn’t improved, Gordon and the Cowboys’ offense will run roughshod over Arkansas. But I think people are sleeping on Arkansas a bit — primarily because of the horrid finish to 2023. They’re going to make the Cowboys’ defense work, and they’re going to force Oklahoma State to beat them with a properly balanced running and passing attack. Oklahoma State will still pull out the victory, but it’ll be a bit closer than some may think."

I pretty much agree.

Can we say Israeli soldiers are fully indoctrinated?

It’s not all peaches & cream.

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Whatever a student may think about genocide he should keep it to himself. Unless, of course, what he thinks is what Israel and the MIC of America has trained him to think.

Would you give a synopsis?

I say we should.

It's as legit as any other in the pre-playoff era.

Horrible decision for OSU football. Another reason OSU owes them.​

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Berry Tramel: How Frank Broyles and Henry Iba conspired to doom Oklahoma State football​

• Sep 4, 2024 Updated 1 hr ago

Berry Tramel​

Sports Columnist

STILLWATER — A Henry Iba fishing hole. A wink-wink agreement between two giants in the history of intercollegiate athletics. A pawn in the sordid history of segregated sports in the South.

Who knows what all conspired to so kookily construct the OSU-Arkansas football series? All of the decision-makers from those days are gone. It’s been 44 years since the Cowboys and Razorbacks shared a football field, but that changes Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium, when what seems like a natural rivalry is renewed for the first time since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, Walter Cronkite was in the CBS anchor chair and Carl Yastrzemski was in the Red Sox lineup.

In those 44 years, college football’s business side has changed more than its gridiron side. What occurred with OSU-Arkansas never would happen today.

From 1950 through 1980, the Cowboys and Razorbacks staged 28 football games together. Three were in Stillwater; 25 were in Little Rock, the Arkansas capital and the Hogs’ second home.

For three decades, the OSU athletic department sacrificed its football program for, well, we’re not exactly sure what. We think we know. It’s money, right? It’s always money.

But still. How could it have made any sense — or dollars and cents — to play a road game almost every season against a border-state rival for three decades?

“Inconceivable,” says OSU athletic director Chad Weiberg.

“Embarrassing,” says Mike Gundy.

Now the rivalry renews, in Stillwater, to boot. What a novel concept.

This is a natural series. Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Stillwater are 186 miles apart; that makes OSU the closest major-college football program to the Razorbacks by proximity.

And the programs once thought it wise to play each other. From 1912 through 1946, they met 16 times, with the Cowboys holding a 8-7-1 edge. Six of those games were in Stillwater, five in Fayetteville, four in Fort Smith and one in Oklahoma City.

Then came the 30-year mystery. How could any self-respecting athletic department with the tradition of OSU, stationed in the prestigious Big Eight Conference for two of those three decades, forfeit an even playing field by agreeing to road games almost every year against the same opponent?

Former OSU athletic director Terry Don Phillips — a Razorback player and administrator before coming to Stillwater — was appalled at the history of the series. During his days as AD (1995-2002), Phillips researched the history of OSU football scheduling and was dismayed at the plight of those Cowboys.

“That was way before my time, so I have no idea what the calculation that went into that, but certainly something that’s inconceivable today,” Weiberg said.

Iba clearly did not prioritize OSU football success. People in Payne County would drink cyanide before saying something bad about Hank Iba, but the truth’s the truth.

A couple of things to remember from those days:

• OSU was not terribly successful in football and didn’t consistently draw well. Crowds fewer than 30,000 were common in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Arkansas split its home games between Fayetteville and Little Rock, and both locales wanted as many games as possible, creating a demand for non-conference home games. In the 1960s, the Razorbacks played 29 non-conference games. Only one was not in Fayetteville or Little Rock.
• Iba, the legendary basketball coach who also served as OSU’s athletic director from 1935-70, faced constant budget demands and basically helped fund the department with a preponderance of road games.

In the 1960s, OSU played 30 non-conference games. Only eight were in Stillwater: Tulsa thrice, Houston twice and Wichita State, Air Force and Texas Tech once each. Four times in the ‘60s, the Cowboys played all three of their non-conference games on the road.

The result was a one-sided OSU-Arkansas series, even though the programs themselves were fairly equitable through most of the 1950s; from 1950-58, the Razorbacks of the Southwest Conference were 41-49-1, while the Cowboys of the independent ranks and the Missouri Valley were 41-45-5.

But Arkansas dominated the series. After OSU’s 1953 victory, the Razorbacks won 14 of 15 in the rivalry, and Arkansas became a national powerhouse in the ‘60s, with a top-10 finish in The Associated Press eight times from 1959-69.

The Razorback rise coincided, of course, with the 1957 hiring of Frank Broyles, who became an Arkansas icon as football coach (1957-76) and athletic director (1974-2007). Broyles was a great coach and a shrewd administrator.

OSU had been to Little Rock three straight years when Broyles got to the Ozarks, but he quickly signed up the Cowboys to keep coming every year.

“Broyles took him (Iba) to the cleaners,” Gundy said. “‘Cause Broyles said, ‘I’m trying to win in football, you’re trying to win in basketball. We’ll make a deal. Iba’s like, ‘I don’t give a s*** if football wins.’ That’s probably what happened.”

An old story, probably apocryphal, around Stillwater says Iba had a favorite fishing spot outside Little Rock, so he signed up OSU to play Arkansas every year at War Memorial Stadium.

But Iba had other reasons to make Little Rock an annual Cowboy stop, notably that the Razorbacks paid visitors well to keep coming to Arkansas.

“With Coach Broyles, the guarantee was always so good, Oklahoma State couldn’t turn it down,” said Rick Schaeffer, a Putnam City High School and OSU graduate who worked on the Cowboy sports information staff in the 1970s but who went on to be the 24-year sports information director at Arkansas, a Razorback football historian and still a member of the Arkansas radio crew.

Eventually, after Iba no longer was athletic director, OSU wised up and persuaded the Razorbacks to head west.

On September 13, 1975, the 16th-ranked Hogs came to old Lewis Field; OSU won 20-13, its third straight victory in the rivalry. Arkansas came back in 1978 and won 19-7.

By then Broyles was growing tired of the series. OSU was much more competitive, wanted home games and, oh yeah, the Cowboys had been recruiting well in Arkansas.



Black linemen such as John Little, Philip Dokes and James “Duck” White became stars after crossing the state line to become Cowboys. OSU was more than a decade ahead of Arkansas in college football integration.

“That stimulated things,” Schaeffer said. “Arkansas might have thought, ‘If we keep playing them in Little Rock, they’re going to keep coming in and getting players.’”

OSU eventually righted its schedules, with more home-and-home contracts. The Cowboys occasionally played single-game opponents for a paycheck — Ohio State, Michigan, Florida — but that, too, has gone away.

Now, Alabama, Oregon and Nebraska are on the docket to play in Stillwater.

Arkansas continued to hoard home games but in recent years is playing a more conventional schedule. The Razorbacks have had home-and-home series with Texas, Brigham Young, Texas Christian and Texas Tech, with Notre Dame and Utah upcoming.

There’s even another OSU-Arkansas set. The Cowboys play at Fayetteville in 2027, then the old foes have a series in 2032-33, with Game 1 in Stillwater, Game 2 in the hills.

Heck, maybe even Gundy still will be coaching. He still shakes his head over what happened to predecessors like Cliff Speegle and Phil Cutchin and Floyd Gass. Coaches who saw a lot of Little Rock but never saw the Razorbacks in Stillwater.

“They got sold out,” Gundy said. “That’s a crying shame.”