STILLWATER — You could point to questionable play-calling, to offensive line snafus, to miscues on special teams or missed assignments galore in the secondary.
All of those are reasonable explanations to why OSU fell, stunningly, in 48-42 fashion on Saturday to Iowa State. All of those, too, are ugly issues that have festered into troubling trends, plaguing this team relentlessly in its two losses this year.
It didn’t appear things would head the way they did Saturday when the game was in its infancy.
OSU struck first with a score from Cornelius to Jelani Woods, one quarterback to another former quarterback.