OSU nearly qualified for a 2018 bowl in the exact same way it qualified for a 2014 bowl: By winning as a three-TD dog in Norman in one of the final few games of the season. Unfortunately that bid came up just short (literally), and OSU still needs another W to get to that six-game threshold.
I’ve seen a few rumblings in recent days that OSU may already have enough wins (5) to get to the postseason. While it’s true that five-win teams make bowls every year, Kyle Cox did a good job framing why that probably won’t be OSU’s story this time around (although it could be … where would they hang the banner?