Thursday, December 2, 2021
OSU rises to No. 5, Barta explains path to CFP for Cowboys
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ing contest, the Big 12 Championship Game, against No. 9 Baylor and needs to climb one spot to make the four team College Football Playoff. The Cowboys are coming off a 37-33 victory over Oklahoma. According to CFP Selection Committee Chair Ben Hutchens Gary Barta, the rivalry win showed the Digital Editor committee OSU could handle pressure well. Oklahoma State keeps moving “We just learned that two really on up. good football teams, but Oklahoma When the season began, the State came out on top,” Barta said. Cowboys were unranked, but have “They were able to score some points. fought their way to No. 5 in the College The defense continues to play well. Football Playoff rankings. OSU (11-1 I don’t know if we learned anything overall, 8-1 Big 12) has one remainspecifically about offense or defense,
but certainly learned a lot about the character of the team under pressure. “Oklahoma State showed the committee that in a playoff-like environment against Oklahoma in a rivalry game, they really found a way to win.” The team ahead of the Cowboys, the No. 4 Cincinnati Bearcats, will play No. 21 Houston in the AAC Championship. There is some belief that because of Cincinnati’s relatively weak conference championship matchup they could get jumped in the rankings. When asked if the Bearcats might get overtaken, Barta reiterated in a Tuesday conference call the committee
doesn’t project. It only evaluates games that have been played. “Georgia and Alabama are going to play. Michigan and Iowa are going to play. Oklahoma State and Baylor. We’re going to watch all those games. And then until that occurs, until the last game is played, we won’t be having any conversations about who is going to be one, two, three, four, five et cetera, and that is the way we go about it,” Barta said.
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OSU releases 2022 football schedule
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bye week after their first three games before opening Big 12 play with a game against Baylor, in Waco, Texas, on Oct. 1. Homecoming for the Cowboys is scheduled for Oct. 22 against Texas. Following Chris Becker Assistant Sports Editor Homecoming OSU will take a road trip north to the Sunflower State back-to-back weeks to face Oklahoma State’s 2021 Kansas State and Kansas. season is still on the climb but Bedlam is scheduled for the 2022 schedule has also been Nov. 19 in Norman against the released. Sooners. The game will come a The Cowboys will open week before the Cowboys close the 2022 slate with a home game their season with the West Viragainst Central Michigan on ginia Mountaineers in Stillwater. Sept. 3. The Cowboys other two All times will be deternonconference games are Arimined closer to the games play zona State on Sept. 10 and Ardates. kansas Pine Bluff on Sept. 17 all three nonconference matchups are at Boone Pickens Stadium. The Cowboys will have a sports.ed@ocolly.com
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Sept. 3
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Sept. 10 Sept. 17
Arizona State Arkansas Pine
Sept. 24 BYE Oct. 1 at Baylor Oct. 8 Texas Tech Oct. 15 at TCU Oct. 22 Texas (Homecoming) Oct. 29 at Kansas State Nov. 5 at Kansas Nov. 12 Iowa State Nov. 19 at Oklahoma Nov. 26 West Virginia Dec. 3 Big 12 Championship Game (Arlington, Texas)
Ethan Holliday commits to OSU, joins brother, father Daniel Allen Staff Reporter
The Holliday family tradition continues within the Oklahoma State baseball program. Class of 2025 infielder and righthanded pitcher Ethan Holliday, son of former MLB great Matt Holliday, announced his commitment to Oklahoma State. Holliday is currently a freshman at Stillwater High School. He is the brother of current class of 2022 commit Jackson Holliday, who recently signed his National Letter of Intent to Oklahoma State.
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