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What You Need To Know About THE BOWL Opponent
BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF
WORTH NOTING
R Oklahoma State has 66
players on its roster from Texas,
27 of them from the Dallas-Fort
Worth area.
Purdue���s population of Texans is at an all-time low by recent
standards, with only seven on the
roster.
Of those, only defensive ends
Ryan Russell (Carrolton) and Eric
Mebane (Grand Prairie) and red-
opponent
newsstand
��� Stillwater NewsPress: Oklahoma State players enjoy
larger venues
��� Stillwater NewsPress: Chelf
will start at QB against
Purdue
��� The Oklahoman: QB goes
from third string to starter
��� The Oklahoman: Cowboys���
tempo may change in bowl
��� Oklahoma State University:
Heart of Dallas Bowl game
notes
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mentioned.
shirting offensive lineman
to be put in place closer to
The last time...
J.J. Prince (Southlake) are
game time.
from the Metroplex area.
R Cowboy freshman
R Like Purdue, Oklaquarterback Wes Lunt
homa State���s dealing with
succeeded Boilermaker
some changes on its coachsophomore
linebacker
ing staff.
Sean Robinson as the
While the Boilermakers
starting QB at Rochester
are down an ousted head
High School in Illinois. This
(Danny Hope) and injured
was after Robinson had
offensive coordinator (Gary
taken over the position
Nord), the Cowboys lost
from Lunt���s older brother,
their highly regarded OC,
Will, upon his graduation.
Todd Monken, to the head
Will Lunt went on to play at
coaching position at SouthWestern Illinois.
ern Mississippi.
���The five days I was
Monken followed in
home (for Christmas), that
the footsteps of past Gundy
was kind of the buzz of the
coordinators Larry Fedora
town,��� Robinson said. ���Two
and Dana Holgorsen in his
kids from the same high
ascent to a head coaching
school a couple years apart
position based off his ofplaying against each other
fense���s staggering success.
in a bowl game. It���s a pretty
Fedora is now the
big deal there. It���ll be fun.���
coach at North Carolina afR According to OklaTom Campbell
ter a few seasons at Southhoma State, the school���s allRosevelt Colvin bears down on Oklahoma State quarterback
ern Miss; Holgorsen is the Tony Lindsay in the 1997 Alamo Bowl, the only time the
time bowl winning percentcoach at West Virginia.
age of 63.6 ��� a 14-8 record
Boilermakers and the Cowboys have met on the football
Monken started his field. Thanks to an explosive third quarter in which Purdue
��� ties it with Ole Miss for
new job immediately, thus scored three touchdowns, the Boilermakers pulled away for
the second-best bowl winleaving Mike Gundy���s staff an easy 33-20 win. Colvin had five tackles in the game.
ning percentage all-time
without its chief play-caller.
in college football, behind
State staff may call plays as a
Gundy said the Oklahoma group, with a more defined plan only USC���s 66.0.
oklahoma state
2012 schedule
DateOpponent
Sept. 1 SAVANNAH STATE
Sept. 8 @ Arizona
Sept. 15 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
Sept. 29 TEXAS
Oct. 13 @ Kansas
Oct. 20 IOWA STATE
Oct. 27 TCU
Nov. 3 @ Kansas State
Nov. 10 WEST VIRGINIA
Nov. 17 TEXAS TECH
Nov. 24 @ Oklahoma
Dec. 1 @ Baylor
Jan. 1 PURDUE
Result
W, 84-0
W, 38-59
L, 65-24
L, 36-41
W, 20-14
W, 31-10
W, 36-14
L, 30-44
W, 55-34
W, 59-21
L, 48-51
L, 34-41
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R Cowboy fans might not
be terribly pleased with Gundy
right now, after the Oklahoma
State coach is believed to have
interviewed for the head coaching positions at Arkansas and
Tennessee, with false reports at
one point coming out that he���d
accepted the job with the Razorbacks, who ultimately hired Wisconsin���s Bret Bielema.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
3-8-1: History is not on Oklahoma State���s side against the Big
Ten, as it���s won just three of the
dozen games its played against
it. That record does not count
games played against former Big
12 member Nebraska. j
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