MANHATTAN, Kan. — You may have scratched your head when you saw Oklahoma State, trailing 12 points and struggling to muster any semblance of its typically high-powered offense, trot out the punt team Saturday as it trailed by 12 points midway through the fourth quarter.
The decision was a punt in more ways than one. It was a punt on a shot to try and strike, before the game got out of hand, which it did shortly thereafter. It was a punt on an opportunity to keep the ball, against a team that held it nearly 38 minutes of possession.