Look at the scoreboard during OSU’s game these past couple weeks, and you’re sure to have seen something different.
Low numbers.
Points. Yards. All of them have been on the small side, and not just early in the game. Those diminutive digits continued deep into the season opener against Tulsa and the Big 12 opener against West Virginia.
Winning 16-7 and 27-13 is old school. Games were won that way in the 1950s. Games in the SEC still get won that way occasionally today, but that type of football has become passe almost everywhere else.
And in Stillwater where defense has some seasons seemed optional, seeing it is off putting.