Last week I wrote my five takeaways from the 2018 Oklahoma State season, and leading the charge was that OSU’s defense has somehow become worse in the wake of Glenn Spencer’s departure.
My reasoning, based on a combination of watching games and looking at stats, is that OSU was less efficient and created fewer turnovers for an offense that was nearly as efficient — from a statistical perspective anyway — as it was in 2017.
But weird years are weird years and not all games are created equal. That is, you could give up 1,000 points in one game, none in the other 11, have the worst defensive stats in the country … and still go 11-1.