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OSU run defense struggles shows last year was an outlier Stadium in Lawrence. OSU has been gashed on the ground before. Saturday’s 351 rushing yards allowed marks the most since OU ran for 378 yards in 2018 against the Cowboys. It just hasn’t happened in a while. Allowing a grotesque amount Gabriel Trevino of rushing yards used to be the norm. Sports Editor Against OU in 2015, 350 rush yards allowed. In 2016, 340 to Texas, 363 to LAWRENCE, Kan. — Two hours Kansas State, 360 to OU, and also in before kickoff, when the news of start2018, 317 to Kansas State again. In all ing OSU quarterback Spencer Sanders’ of those games, the opposing teams all game-prohibiting injury came to light, attempted at least 47 rushes. hope began to diminish for the Cowboys On Saturday, KU only ran 46 in the odds of victory. times. But he may not have helped much The tumultuous run defense struganyway. gles began to decline in 2019. From ‘19 Not when OSU’s defense allowed to 2021, OSU’s defense never allowed 37 points and 554 total yards in its 37-16 300 rush yards in a game. loss to Kansas at David Booth Memorial See Run on page 2
Mackenzie Janish Kansas running back Devin Neal led the Jayhawks to 351 rushing yards in a win over No. 18 OSU, 37-16.
OSU places annual flags and dog tags on Library Lawn Kennedy T. the number of Staff Reporter lives lost. OSU is
also unique in the fact that the dog tags are printed with each veteran’s name, branch and how long they served. Vince Rivera is the veteran success coordinator and has been doing this event since he arrived at OSU. “It’s a way for us to not only show our student veterans, but our active students who are active duty, our guard and reserve students, our military family members, so their parents might have been in the military, so they’re going to school here using the G.I. bill of some sort, and the Stillwater community how much our veterans mean to us,” Rivera said.
A total of 7,168 flags stand proudly in Edmond Low’s lawn, a tribute to our veterans. These flags, along with the corresponding dog tags, serve as a reminder of the soldiers lost since 9/11. The Department of Transfer and Student Veteran Success, along with the ROTC, student and community volunteers uniformly placed the flags and dog tags in the lawn. Placing the flags and dog tags is the start to a week of events that recognize veterans for their service and sacrifice. This display is nationally recognized, as OSU is the only university that creates a display that accurately reflects See Story on page 5
Chase Davis Kansas handled No. 18 OSU 37-16 which marked the Jayhawks first win over the Cowboys since 2007.
Column: In a pivotal game, OSU was a defeated team Braden Bush Staff Reporter
Molly Jolliff Dog tags are hung on flags throughout Library Lawn to honor Cowboy veterans, and all who have served our country.
LAWRENCE, Kan. – By the time Devin Neal’s 42-yard rush took the game into the fourth quarter, the faces on the Cowboy bench were deflated. Fifteen game minutes later, those solemn faces jogged through the jeers and traffic of another field storming and goalpost demolition. Neal, Kansas’ lead tailback, juked and swerved OSU defenders
down inside the 10-yard line. One of many instances. An OSU field goal just cut the Jayhawk lead to three touchdowns, but that run at the thirdquarter buzzer squandered what little hope remained. All of the problems from last week’s historic loss 70 miles down the road in Manhattan made the trip with the Cowboys. This time, not even Spencer Sanders was there to help cure their ailments. OSU entered Saturday’s game at a crossroad: bounce back or get bounced again. Set the season straight or spiral further. And the Cowboys were a defeated team in their 37-16 loss to Kansas. On the Cowboys’ first drive, wideout Stephon Johnson Jr. dropped a pass from freshman quarterback
Garret Rangel that would have at least put OSU deep in the KU red zone. Neal responded with two rushes for 55 yards and a touchdown on the ensuing drive. Rangel tossed an interception on two consecutive drives, then was asked to take a snap under center on a fourth-and-one at the KU 14-yard line – something the offense doesn’t often do even with Sanders at the helm. The results were a mishandled snap and a fumble. Later, the Cowboys were 22 seconds from getting to the halftime whistle with just a 10-point deficit, but KU quarterback Jason Bean found receiver Lawrence Arnold open in the end zone. See Column on page 3
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Freshman mistakes: Rangel gets first career start Daniel Allen Staff Reporter
Chase Davis No. 18 OSU allowed 351 rushing yards against Kansas, the most since Oklahoma logged 378 yards in 2018.
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said safety Sean Micahel-Flanagan. “When it Continued from page 1 gets late in the season you have to go back to Last season’s your roots.” top-five defense in the Said cornerback country never allowed Jabbar Muhammad, “It’s more than 200. The basic tackling; wrap, 2021 Cowboy defense roll and get them to the allowed an average of 84 ground. It’s that simple.” rush yards per game on Said defensive co37 attempts. This year, ordinator Derek Mason, OSU is allowing 174 per “Schemes are schemes, contest. and schemes make playWith the loss, OSU ers come alive. In this drops to 6-3, including case, I take all responsitwo straight blowout bility. If we’re not good losses on the road, leav- against the run, that’s ing questions for the my responsibility. I’m future. the coordinator.” “It starts with stop2022’s version of ping the run,” said OSU the Cowboys aren’t the coach Mike Gundy. “We same as last year’s. That need to tackle better. squad was one of the It’s extremely difficult to best in the program’s perform well as a team history. But what OSU when you allow those is now, is a similar team kinds of rushes.” to what its been in the The difference past on defense. All the from prior years’ deplayers and staff can do fenses to this, even with now is learn. Just like many returning startthe members of the 2021 ers on the defensive defense had to do. line isn’t schematic. It’s “I hope they execution. Tackling was respond, that’s what life cited as the major issue is,” Gundy said. “We regarding stopping the try to teach them that. run, by coaches and We have a culture that players. Each had their should allow them to own perspective on how understand that someto improve forcing ball times things don’t go carriers to the turf. your way. We start over “It’s getting late tomorrow morning.” in the season, and that affects fundamentals,” sports.ed@ocolly.com
LAWRENCE, Kan.— A motionless group of orange and white jerseys highlighted the OSU sideline. The ambiance on the visitors sideline was an encapsulation of the feel of Saturday afternoon’s game for the Cowboys. There were a lot of firsts in No. 18 OSU’s 37-16 road loss to Kansas. It was the first time the Jayhawks downed the Cowboys in 15 years, dating back to 2008. It was the first time OSU had suffered consecutive losses since the 2019 season. It also marked the first career collegiate start of true freshman quarterback Garret Rangel. Amid a second straight blowout loss, a quarterback’s performance can often be a footnote in comparison to the final score. Offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn saw a silver lining in Rangel’s outing. Heading into Saturday’s contest, he only attempted two passes on the year. Rangel quickly settled in. He led the Cowboys on a 15-play touchdown drive shortly after the two interceptions, ending with an eight-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Stephon Johnson— the first of Rangel’s young college career. Rangel completed 27 of his 40 passes for 304 yards through the air, two touchdowns, and three interceptions — the third coming on a hanging, deflected ball that ended in the arms of a Jayhawk defender. “I think we just put (Rangel) in a bad position,” Dunn said. “We didn’t move the ball well enough early for him. We got behind a little bit, and now all of a sudden you’ve got to catch the
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Chase Davis OSU freshman quarterback Garret Rangel earned his first career start against Kansas on Saturday afternoon.
ball a little more than you wanted to, coming in.” Rangel’s first drive ended in an interception. A late throw as he was being yanked by a nearby Jayhawk defensive lineman — trying to force an ill advised throw rather than taking a sack. On the ensuing offensive possession, Rangel overthrew receiver Bryson Green on a go route, which ultimately led to a
second interception. “We were moving the ball and getting chunks (of yards) at a time,” said running back Dominic Richardson. “Then we hit a brick wall back-to-back drives. (Rangel) played great. Those (turnovers) weren’t all his fault. But we all have those freshman moments and they just came in unfortunate times.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
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Chase Davis Fans tore down the goalpost as Kansas defeated OSU for the first time since 2007.
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among the best in the nation on third downs, gave up six of 14 third downs and allowed conversions on both of KU’s fourth-down attempts. The offense finished with more Continued from page 1 than 400 yards and had three drives with more than 10 plays, but it couldn’t convert those drives into points. An Before OSU could catch its offense that was averaging nearly 45 breath, it found itself in another halfpoints a game two weeks ago lost its time hole with little reason for confiidentity. dence and optimism. “I think the most important thing “I would expect (the players) to whenever you come up short is to be critical of themselves,” Gundy said. identify why it happened,” Gundy said. “I expect the coaches to be critical of “And what some type of a short-term themselves and grading tape and look- solution to get better for next week. I ing in the mirror and saying, “Okay, think that’s really where you’re at at here’s what we did. Here’s what we this time.” can do better,’ and come up with some Saturday’s loss, which was OSU’s answers and practice well this week. first to the Jayhawks in Lawrence since “It sounds simple, but there really 1994, paired with last week’s drubbing, is no other alternative.” is a stretch of defeat with a magnitude Even areas the Cowboys have that OSU hasn’t faced since 2014. been OK in this year weren’t so great Those Cowboys were outscored 152-40 Saturday. The defense, which has been over a four-game period and ended the
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regular season 6-6 after a 5-1 start. These Cowboys are flirting with that level of drop-off. And it comes with a defense full of experienced players from a topfive national defense a year ago and an offense with dynamic playmakers, coming off a 12-win season. A team that’s not used to losing – especially in this way. “It’s real tough, especially just because the standard we have for ourselves,” cornerback Jabbar Muhammad said. “Two losses in a row like this, it’s not the standard. We don’t expect nothing else but wins, but we’ve got to get back to the drawing board and get back to the basics and just get back to being us. “We’re going through a little rough patch. We need the older guys to step up and hear their voice.” Gundy gave the same message to some of those veteran players in the locker room.
“Told leaders we need to step up, dig down deep and find a way to practice hard and get ready to go play another one next week,” Gundy said. The Cowboys responded to a shutout loss with another underwhelming loss. Now, it’s about pride and not becoming another OSU team that skids through the end of its season. OSU has to find a way to respond positively. Because on Saturday, it looked like a team without hope. “I hope they respond,” Gundy said. “I mean, it’s kind of like life is. We try to teach them that, and we have a culture that should extend itself to them to understand that sometimes things don’t go your way. They have to understand that we all we all start over again tomorrow morning.”
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Molly Jolliff Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. Edmond Low Library will host a Veteran’s Day Ceremony. It will be held at the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room on the second floor.
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were placed on Friday. Members of the Office of Student Veteran Success alongside student and community volunteers, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, Continued from page 1 dedicated time to this project. Timothy James Anderson, a firstyear student and veteran, placed flags “To commemorate that, since in the ground as it rained on Thursday. I’ve been here, every year we’ve put He reflected on the experience of honout these nationally recognized flag oring the fallen veterans. displays. It’s 7,168 flags. Each flag rep“A lot of it is thankful that the resents a military member that we have ground is soft,” Anderson shared. lost since Operation Enduring Free“But a lot of it is just how many flags dom, so in other words, since Sept. 11, we have to put in, kind of makes you 2001.” somber and feels not great, but also The process of placing the flags feels great to be part of representing and dog tags takes two days to comthem and just showing that 7,000 looks plete. American flags were planted in kind of small when you compare it to the ground last Thursday and dog tags the national population, but staring at
it to its face, it’s humbling and kind of somber.” The experience of creating the display is personal and full of emotions. “It’s important to me because I just recently learned about it [the event] from the head downstairs in the Veterans Benefit Center,” Anderson said. “He told the story of families coming up to this and asking for their specific family member’s dog tag and having an answer for that is really special, you know. As far as they [Department of Transfer and Student Veteran Success] can find, they’re the only people that do the research, find a flag for every single military member that has passed away. And each flag represents one of those fallen people. Doing
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Travis Wittlake, OSU’s 184-pounder, won twice in Saturday’s ranking matches.
3 takeaways: Cowboy wrestling hosts ranking matches Each guy displayed strong opponent control with a few mat returns. In his second bout, McLane lost 4-0 to Jalin Harper.
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For context, Harper started at 165 in two duals. He went 0-2. McLane makes the jump a weight after spending his first three years at 157.
The wrestling regular season is a week away. No. 10 OSU held its annual ranking matches inside the wrestling room Saturday afternoon. OSU coach John Smith brought in two officials to give the guys a realistic simulation of competition. Here are three takeaways and results from the bouts. Thin margins at 157, 165 A mixed bag of results at 165 and 157 represents the open nature of the starting spot. With a week from OSU’s first duals, Smith has a few options at these weights. Travis Wittlake, who occupied the spot the past few seasons, moved to 184. That leaves a few veterans and redshirt freshmen battling for the top spot. Chance McLane, a redshirt junior, beat Travis Mastrogiovanni, 3-1, in a scramble-heavy 165-pound bout.
At 157, incumbent starter Wyatt Sheets defeated freshman Hunter Worthen in a mat two bout. On mat one, sophomore Luke Mechler handled Daniel Manibog, 8-1. Mechler seeks the starting spot after a 13-2 season in open tournaments. For Cowboy fans, these will be weights to watch. Wittlake 2-0 at 184 Travis Wittlake didn’t have a problem up two weight classes. He used an overtime takedown on the edge to beat redshirt freshman Kyle Hass, 5-3. It was a match so intense that Haas took injury time to spit up in a trash can. The coaches gave Wittlake another match at 184 with redshirt senior Gavin Stika. The two traded a few takedowns but Wittlake won 6-4. Rogers working with Doucet Konner Doucet didn’t wrestle
a teammate. He wrestled a coach in graduate assistant Chandler Rogers, a former two-time Cowboy All-American at 165. Rogers returned to Stillwater in the summer after assisting Little Rock for two seasons. With a lack of depth at heavyweight, Rogers gave Doucet an experienced feel. Rogers, although clearly less conditioned than his opponent, won 5-1 with riding time. The result, however, doesn’t mean much in terms of the lineup. Doucet is still OSU’s guy at heavyweight. It does show the development needed for Doucet. In another bout, Doucet defeated freshman Hayden Simpson, OSU’s other heavyweight, 12-3. OSU wrestling ranking match results Mat one results 125: Trevor Mastrogiovanni maj dec. Zach Blakenship, 11-1 133: Daton Fix maj dec. Reece Witcraft, 9-0 141: Carter Young maj dec. Andrew Bloemhof, 10-2 with riding time 149: Victor Voinovich dec. Jordan Williams, 7-5 157: Luke Mechler dec. Daniel Manibog, 8-1 with riding time 165: Chance McLane dec. Travis Mastrogiovanni, 3-1
184: Travis Wittlake dec. Kyle Haas, 5-3 OT Heavyweight: Chandler Rogers dec. Konner Doucet, 5-1 Second round bouts on mat one: 165: Jalin Harper dec. Chance McLane, 4-0 with riding time 184: Travis Wittlake dec. Gavin Stika, 6-4 Heavyweight: Konner Doucet maj dec. Hayden Simpson, 12-3 Mat two results: Note: Official score was not recorded. Only winners. 125: Alexander Yokubaitis over Gabe Fontanez 133: Cooper Birdwell over Cade Nicholas 149: Teague Travis over Cutter Sheets 157: Wyatt Sheets over Hunter Worthen 165: Jalin Harper over Brett Black 174: Blake Skidgel over Benjamin Mower 184: Gavin Stika over Trevor Dopps 184: Evan Shetley over Christian McCutcheon
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OSU hosts annual Cowboy-Con The Oklahoma City Ghostbusters, led by Justin Wright, made an apperarance at Cowboy-Con, supproting charitites which spread awareness for cancer, Alzheimer’s and autism.
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on the comic book character Vision as his 50’s counterpart from the show “Wandavision”. Student Union Activity Board member Jamison Black loved her time On Saturday, the Student Union setting up the event with SUAB. Activity Board held its annual comic “I’ve got to do fun things, I reconvention known as “Cowboy Con” ally like seeing people go all out and in the Student Union Ballroom. With live their best lives,” she said. “I loved hundreds of fans of various franchises running trivia and pretending to be showing up in creative costumes and an announcer. I love working with my cosplays, newcomers and fans enjoyed committee, we put a lot of work into the event. this event and it was great seeing it “I quite enjoyed attending with come to life. I’m really proud of it.” my friends and seeing all of the difBesides trivia and vendors selling ferent vendors and cosplays,” student unique merchandise, there were plenty Rachel Miller told The O’Colly. of other enjoyable attractions such as Miller also described enjoying the a “Super Smash Brothers Ultimate” trivia rounds throughout the day, which competition, a “Magic the Gathering” provided Funko Pop rewards of iconic tournament, and a raffle ticket drawing characters such as Batman, Grogu from at the end of the event which gave out “The Mandalorian”, and a special take rewards such as a Playstation 5, Nin-
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tendo Switch Lite, and Xbox Series S to lucky OSU students. Although there were plenty of vendors who sold fan art, posters, keychains, and refreshments, Justin Wright’s booth really had student’s attention. Wright is the co-founder for the Oklahoma City Ghostbusters. The group dresses s dress up, or cosplay, as the Ghostbusters for entertainment and for charity, helping spread awareness for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and autism. “We also do cons like Cowboy Con where we show our props we created from the movies and show our love for Ghostbuster,” he said. We love having fun and spreading love to our community.” Anitra Noby agreed with Wright’s sentiment and wished to represent that anyone could be a Ghostbuster. Students did a great job helping
enrich the event, showing up dressed as characters such as Monkey D. Luffy from the manga “One Piece,” Roxanne Wolf from the popular horror franchise “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” Rick Sanchez from the animated series “Rick and Morty,” and one very dedicated fan dressed as the Pumpkin King Enoch from the miniseries “Over the Garden Wall”. With so many dedicated cosplayers, a staff working hard to provide great entertainment, and plenty of interesting vendors, it seems many students walked away from Cowboy Con feeling satisfied. It’s unclear whether SUAB will host Cowboy Con next year, but with the large turnout of students, it seems likely. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com
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