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Big 12 efficiency rankings: A salute to Oklahoma State's defense

Oklahoma State has resuscitated its season with a couple of impressive victories, both 34-27, over Iowa State and TCU. And the Cowboys have done it with defense.

That’s right. Defense. OSU has the ninth-best offense in the Big 12, using conference games and scoring efficiency. Ninth. The school of Zac Robinson and Brandon Weeden and Mason Rudolph has not maintained its offensive status in the first year of the Spencer Sanders era. And that’s OK. A learning curve is to be expected, and OSU has been much better than its last offense-rebuilding season of 2014.

And the Cowboys’ offensive efficiency of .