Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022

Alumni Association hosts annual Homecoming tailgate

Gina Foster Staff Reporter

The Homecoming Tailgate, hosted by the Alumni Association on Monday evening from 5 to 7 p.m., was a suc cess, and words weren’t even needed to recognize that.

The smiles and pure joy that was spread across students’ and faculty’s faces expressed that the event was an accomplishment for another year.

The ConocoPhillips Alumni Cen ter was exploding with friendships be ing formed, free food and drinks being enjoyed, and the cornhole competition was serious.

This event became an annual oc casion due to the family and community feeling that is continuously brought. Having students of all ages, majors

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Frogs conquer deficit over OSU in double overtime thriller

Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.

Adam Engel Co-Editor-in-Chief

FORT WORTH, Texas — A scamper led to a stampede.

In seconds, a field of gray and white trans formed into a blob of purple.

Shirtless men hopped the bar rier and sprinted toward TCU running back Kendre Miller.

A game-winning touchdown will gift you with that popularity.

OSU players trudged toward with their heads down, avoiding contact with wild fans.

No words were spoken. No need after a lead lost control. A slow walk. One of defeat.

No. 13 TCU conquered a double-digit halftime deficit to beat No. 8 OSU, 43-40, in double overtime inside

In that mo ment, after OSU (5-1, 2-1) scored its first touch down since the second quarter, Miller’s 2-yard scamper finished the job. One that OSU couldn’t finish. But TCU (6-0, 3-0) did.

“I don’t even remember the wins,” Cow boys coach Mike Gundy said. “I always remember the losses. We were trying to put it away. We just didn’t get it done.”

OSU’s 24-10 halftime led shrunk. Then shrunk some more. The Cowboys’ best response? A field goal from Tanner Brown here and a field goal there.

But when TCU found the end zone in two of its final four regulation drives, the lead dissolved into a tie. It’s the lost lead that the Cowboys said they were frus trated with.

and many different personalities come together to celebrate the Cowboys, have the opportunity to meet new people, and having an abundance of excitement is what homecoming is all about.

Many students had either never known this event existed, briefly heard of it and never gone or never knew about it in in the first place. It was also more difficult considering the previous years it was either cancelled or altered due to the COVID-19.

This year that was definitely not the case, and everyone that said they had never gone before wished they would have. There is nothing better than a tailgate, especially one away from the newfound fall chill, an abundance of free food and snacks and new faces to find yourself in a conversation with.

Harvest Carnival and Chili Cook Off keep homecoming tradition alive

Bella Casey Staff Reporter

What was once a small-town carnival is now considered the begin ning of America’s Greatest Home coming.

In 1913, Oklahoma A&M Uni versity, now Oklahoma State Univer sity, hosted its first Harvest Carnival. The Harvest Carnival was originally held to celebrate a good harvest and encourage agricultural conversation within the community.

Seven years later, in 1920, Okla homa A&M hosted its first homecom

ing day for Oklahoma A&M alumni. From there, homecoming festivities grew grander, and the Harvest Carni val was still celebrated annually. Over 100 years later, the Har vest Carnival remains on the list of homecoming festivities for OSU. Now organized by OSU’s Alumni Asso ciation, the Harvest Carnival is held in conjunction with the annual Chili Cook Off at the Payne County Expo Center. This year’s carnival and cook off is scheduled for Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Admission to the carnival and cook off is one canned good per person as part of the Harvest II food drive. The proceeds are distributed

throughout the community.

The Harvest Carnival booths are run by the student organizations and Greek houses of OSU. The games are designed to educate and entertain elementary age children. No tickets are required for children to play the variety of games and activities offered at the carnival.

The annual Chili Cook Off is also hosted with the Harvest Carnival in the expo center. The cook off invites Greek houses and student organizations to compete to cook the best chili.

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The OSU Alumni hosted a tailgate for students to enjoy food, raffles and fun.

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The Harvest Carnival and Chili Cook Off at the Payne County Expo will be full of fun and games for people of all ages, along with some delicious food.

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“My family bleeds orange so I’ve been coming ever since I was a kid,” Libby G., a junior at OSU, said. “I have seen it from the adult perspective, just going with my parents. I knew when I came to college, I wanted to have the student experience, so being able to help it’s such an honor and so cool.”

Many students were also assisting in many ways, some including giving out raffle tick ets as students walked in and directing them on where to put their ticket after it was filled out, making sure the bounce house stayed upright and ev eryone was safe, taking photos for people that wanted to pose

in front of the photo booth and even being a cornhole partner if someone needed one.

Amongst the students that were enjoying free food and having fun with friends, were OSU royalty, includ ing Miss OSU, Homecoming Queen and King, and the rest of the homecoming candidates and their escorts. They were all incredibly energetic and so happy to have the honor to rep resent OSU and mingle with various students.

Senior Homecoming Queen Mia Rucker is on the pom squad, the president of the Chi Omega sorority and is involved with a campus club called Inspiring Health Profes sionals.

“This is my first time here and it’s so much fun,” Rucker said. “I think it really does feel like a tailgate and I think that’s what’s so much fun, just getting to talk and

hang out. It’s a great kickoff to the week. I definitely played cornhole and I did win.”

A junior homecoming candidate, Corrine Kissel, stated the experience was “in credibly humbling.” She also shared how amazing it was to represent the university, speak with visitors, alumni, students and that “it feels so good to be able to share my love of the university.”

Students interacting with others was simply the purpose and it was all executed well. Pistol Pete even joined the party by showing off his wild dance moves on the bounce house. The Alumni Asso ciation picked one welcoming event to pave the way for an amazing homecoming week.

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Alumni Association hosted a tailgate for students to enjoy food, raffles and fun.

Photos by Cole Gueldenzoph, Chase Davis and Jaiden Daughty

“It makes it hard to walk away from the game because you already know in your head that you already had it,” OSU defensive end Tyler Lacy said. “You had full control of the game. Right at the last second it just slips away from you.”

OSU’s first drive ended the way it did in all but two games so far this season, points. Quarterback Spencer Sanders, despite rumors of an injury absence, danced around the TCU de

fense and into the end zone. Sanders’ 29-yard touchdown keeper finished the six play drive.

Less than six minutes later, Sanders added another touchdown on the ground.

After a Brown field goal in the second quarter, Sanders connected with John Paul Richardson, who leaped over his defender to secure a 22-yard touchdown reception.

TCU found the red zone in the second quarter but settled with field goals.

Miller scored his first touchdown of the game on a 3-yard rush with 9:22 left in the fourth. Eight minutes later, TCU quarterback Max Duggan

connected with tight end Jared Wiley who tight roped the sideline and snuck inside the bottom left pylon. An extra point tied it at 37.

“We let a few plays go,” Lacy said. “They came back and they didn’t quit.”

Duggan punished the Cowboys in the first overtime drive with a 25-yard strike to his top target, Quentin John son.

“A lot of people are frustrated and angry,” OSU linebacker Mason Cobb said. “That’s what happens when you lose a game that you’re not sup posed to lose. We know that we’re bet ter than that. I think that’s where the frustration comes in.”

OSU running back Dominic Richardson kept OSU alive with a 1-yard touchdown. Richardson, who wasn’t made available to media in postgame, was originally committed to TCU. A 52-yard field goal from Brown in the next position opened the oppor tunity for TCU.

Enter Miller. The end of OSU’s undefeated season.

“I wish we could’ve just put the hammer down and finished it,” OSU offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn said.

“I’m really disappointed in obviously myself and what we did on offense. We just gotta find a way to finish that thing off. We had some chances in there.”

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Running game deficiencies cost Cowboys in Fort Worth

overtime on Saturday evening.

Sam Hutchens Staff Reporter

FORT WORTH, Texas

— Derek Mason was talking about TCU ball carriers.

But his astute observa tion could be applied on a broader scale, too. It sums up the Cowboys game perfectly.

“I thought we had them at times in our grasp and we just didn’t finish,” said Mason, OSU’s defensive coordinator.

TCU beat OSU 43-40 in

The Cowboys held a lead which swelled to as much as 17 in the first half. But like the Horned Frog ballcarriers whom Mason identified, the lead wiggled out of OSU’s control.

TCU rushed for 224 yards and OSU rushed for 141. Both numbers alarmed the Cowboy coaching staff. Offensively and defensively, being bested on the ground cost OSU.

“This game came down to (TCU’s) ability to rush the football,” coach Mike Gundy said. “We couldn’t run the football very well. We became a little bit one-dimensional. I really think that’s what the difference was.”

Senior running back Dominic Richardson led OSU with 72 rushing yards on 22 carries. Quarterback Spencer Sanders was more efficient, racking up 68 yards on 11 car ries. As a team, OSU averaged 3.4 yards per rush. It was a decent showing, but shy of the four-yard average Gundy aims for.

In contrast, the Horned

Frogs averaged 5.2 yards per carry.

TCU running back Ken dre Miller had 104 yards on 22 carries. Horned Frog quarter back Max Duggan and running back Emari Demarcado were also efficient, and both had over 50 yards.

It was a dichotomy OSU could not overcome, especially late in the game.

Linebacker Mason Cobb said the issue of allowing TCU to rack up yardage was an elementary one.

“We made some good plays, but tackling I think was poor on everyone’s part, and especially mine,” Cobb said.

“As a defense, we hold each other to a high standard so we’re a much better defense than that.”

One occurrence of a TCU running back breaking away from Cowboy defenders to gain positive yardage came on the game’s final play. Trail ing by three in overtime, the Horned Frogs gave Miller the ball two yards away from the end zone.

Senior OSU defensive tackle Tyler Lacy charged

through the offensive line and managed to apply a hit on Miller. Despite the contact, Miller remained upright and darted through a crease to win the game. It was not the most glaring failure to tackle, but it was the most important missed opportunity.

Even Cobb, who made a team-high 16 tackles, focused on the plays he didn’t make.

“Simple things we can fix,” Cobb said. “Wrapping up and getting them down in the backfield. There is a lot of opportunities we had that we didn’t take advantage of.”

Mackenzie Janish

Column: The Cowboys choked and it’s going to take a while to forget

Ben Hutchens Assistant Sports Editor

FORT WORTH, Texas – Five local establishments offered TCU stu dents a deal.

Show up to Amon G. Carter Sta dium for the game against Oklahoma State, break the student attendance record and drinks are half off from 1011 Saturday night.

Midway through the game, an announcement flashed up on the big screen. Six thousand and 224 students packed the east stands, a new record.

Good for the students in Fort Worth, but hopefully they invite the orange-clad students who made the three-hour trip down I-35. They are the ones who need the deal, because OSU’s 43-40 double overtime loss will be tough to quickly forget.

“You know, I don’t even remem ber the wins, I always remember the losses,” Gundy said.

But this one may linger a little longer for fans, as chokes tend to.

OSU carried a 30-16 lead into the fourth quarter, but the 30 points may as well have been artifacts from the past. The offense, which had started to sputter after halftime, ground to a total halt.

A parental guidance rating should have accompanied the fourth quarter drive chart: Punt, interception, punt and punt. Each punt on the heels of a 3-and-out.

The Horned Frogs trended the opposite direction, scoring two touch downs in the fourth quarter after only crossing the red line marking the end zone once prior.

“Momentum swung their way and when you have ebb and flow and it moves away from you instead of towards you, it winds up being one of those deals where when you’re fight

ing hard to get momentum back, a play here, a play there you know, you wish you made a better call here, a better call there,” OSU defensive coordinator Derek Mason said.

After OSU captain Tom Hutton called tails to win the overtime coin toss, things continued to unravel for the Cowboys.

TCU quarterback Max Duggan threw a 25-yard TD strike on the sec ond play of overtime. Quentin John ston, who torched the Cowboys for 180 yards, didn’t have an easier catch all day as he grabbed the ball at the goal line and fell across for the go-ahead score.

Mason said his defense called a single safety zone and was vulnerable

to the run-pass option TCU ran.

“Missed opportunity for us, that’s one of those you say you want a better call,” Mason said. “I thought they were booking us for cover two and I think (Duggan) was surprised, he sort of lollipopped it in there and it wound up being a touchdown.”

When the Cowboys got the ball back, a steely conversion on fourth down to set up a tying OSU touchdown kept their heads above water. An of fensive holding penalty on the ensuing OSU possession was like foregoing a life jacket to swim to safety.

The Cowboys didn’t make it to shore.

A 52-yard Tanner Brown field goal didn’t trump TCU’s six-play

touchdown drive to win the game.

Gundy said TCU did a better job scheme-wise in coaching than OSU did. He pointed to being unable to adjust to the Horned Frogs’ run game that averaged 5.2 yards per carry and the blown coverage in overtime.

“They made a few more plays there than we did calls,” Gundy said.

There might be only one play call for OSU students to make tonight to remedy the feelings of a 14-point fourth quarter choke.

Hang out with a TCU student from 10-11 tonight.

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Homecoming Schedule

Tuesday

Harvest Carnival, Payne County Expo Center, 6-8 p.m.

Chili Cook-Off, Payne County Expo Center, 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday

Hester Street Painting, Hester Street outside of Spears School of Business, 5-7 p.m.

Thursday

Orange Reflection, Residential Life Buildings, 9 p.m.-12 a.m.

All Night Pomp, Greek Neighborhood, 3 p.m. Oct. 20-3 p.m. Oct. 21

Friday

Homecoming Dec Walkarounds, Greek Neighborhood, 5:30-9 p.m.

Homecoming Registration, Alumni Association and South Library Lawn, 3:30-8 p.m.

Homecoming & Hoops, Gallagher-Iba Arena, 9-9:45 p.m.

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Dakota Whitman, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and CEHS Student Council, was inspired to enter last year’s chili cook off by his house mom, Rena Sterling.

“I went into my house mom’s room one day and saw she had that she had three awards for chili cook offs,” Whitman said.

Sterling was willing to share her champion recipe, as there is one simple thing that makes this chili so delicious. Whitman recalls Sterling telling him she “just cooks it with love.”

Whitman and another STU CO member, Emily Evans, cooked the chili for the carnival last year and won fan favorite.

Whitman plans to enter the same recipe in the chili cook off again this year. As a past win ner, he advises new teams to walk around and try the other team’s chilis.

Harvest Carnival attendees

are also welcome to try the chili. If you are interested in trying the chili, plan to try it first thing, as Whitman’s fan favorite chili was gone with over an hour of tasting time left last year.

The Harvest Carnival and

Chili Cook off are a great way to entertain your kids, give back to the community or try some tasty chili.

Jaiden Daughty The Harvest Carnival at the Payne County Expo will be full of fun and games for people of all ages.