Oklahoma State has maybe not lived up to either preseason expectations or program expectations so far this season as they’ve submitted an up-and-down 5-3 record through their first eight games.
Anecdotally that’s because the offense has struggled and the defense has struggled, and both of those units have struggled about the same amount. Except … that’s not what the numbers tell us.
The numbers tell us that OSU has been good on offense — at times bad, but at times great — and pretty consistently lousy on defense. In fact, so lousy that you have to go back to 2007 to find a defense this porous during Mike Gundy’s tenure in Stillwater.