Mike Tyson famously said that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. During his nine-game introduction to Big 12 football, Jim Knowles and Oklahoma State’s defense took a barrage of haymakers right on the kisser.
The final conference game of his inaugural Big 12 season probably felt like a gut punch. OSU had given up 31 points to a TCU offense led by something called a “Grayson Muehlstein.” It was the first time the Horned Frogs had broken 30 since they welcomed SMU in Week 2.
Knowles said it was different than anything he’d ever been involved in.