STILLWATER — Offered a list of common fears, Taylor Cornelius nonchalantly answered which afflict him.
“Not the dark,” he said with a light chuckle, “but I’m not that big of a fan of spiders, honestly.”
It seems that starting a college football game for the first time, as he’ll do for Oklahoma State in Thursday’s season opener against Missouri State, is more like the dark than spiders for the fifth-year senior quarterback.
“I’m not nervous,” Cornelius said. “I’m sure right before kickoff, I’ll have a few butterflies, but once it gets going, I’m sure I’ll be good.