It’s hard to avoid making prisoner-of-the-moment judgments off small sample sizes. And yet every year, the season-opener elicits commentary that almost never ages well.
Truth is, not only can you not make definitive conclusions based off a single game, but for OSU, that single game is often against a not-great team. So let’s not write the season off based on a grind-out win over Tulsa, shall we? (And conversely, let’s not declare OSU the Big 12 favorite when they smash, say, West Virginia.) The injury bug bit in-game Saturday, and it was a weird four quarters. Sometimes … that happens!