Oklahoma State
1-1Big 12 · Eric Morris, year 1 (1-1) · Boone Pickens Stadium · 55,509 · 51,035 avg in 2026
LastW 39–31 vs Oregon · Sat Sep 12 · Drew Mestemaker 317 pass yds, 2 TD, 2 INT
Nextvs Murray State · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · Boone Pickens Stadium · first meeting on record · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 95 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrambler · +0.05 EPA/play | 17 | 2 | 55 / 92 | 59.8 | 558 #30 FBS | 6.1 | 3 #60 FBS | 4 | 112.8 | 45 | 80.1 | 4.5 | 2.1 | |
Yards by week → ScramblerMakes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise. 4 of 13 QBs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Rush usage10.7% bottom 32th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts INT rate4.3% bottom 1th percentile · FBS QBs, min. 80 attempts Trait fingerprint Plays like View Drew Mestemaker's full player page | ||||||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhorse · -0.01 EPA/play | 24 | 2 | 41 | 189 #28 FBS | 4.6 | 1 | 26 | — | — | |
Yards by week → WorkhorseBuilt to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value. This week's matchup — RB Hawkins just keeps getting the ball, series after series. Cook is the one who does a little of everything without one standout trait. Season receipt Weight219 lb 83th percentile · FBS RBs, min. 40 carries Yards / reception3.4 bottom 7th percentile · FBS RBs, min. 40 carries Trait fingerprint Plays like View Caleb Hawkins's full player page | ||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver · +0.82 EPA/play | 10 | 2 | 13 | 205 #27 FBS | 15.8 | 1 | 52 | |
Yards by week → Possession ReceiverReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. The most common profile in its group this season — 37 of 58 classified this way. Played in 2 of 3 games this season · junior View Wyatt Young's full player page | ||||||||
| +0.40 EPA/play | — | 2 | 7 | 103 | 14.7 | 1 | 34 | |
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| +0.68 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 7 | 87 | 12.4 | 0 | 39 | |
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| +0.36 EPA/play | 3 | 2 | 8 | 57 | 7.1 | 0 | 12 | |
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| -0.07 EPA/play | 1 | 2 | 7 | 54 | 7.7 | 0 | 17 | |
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage 'Backer | 32 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
Coverage 'BackerCarries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage. 21 of 84 LBs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt PD rate6.2% 81th percentile · FBS linebackers, min. 15 tackles Plays like View Ethan Wesloski's full player page | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | 2 | 8 | 2 #43 FBS | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 #22 FBS | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 2 | 5/5 | 100 | 4/4 | 19 | 44 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 2 | 5 | 221 | 44.2 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
Net average is unavailable — CFBD's punting feed carries gross yards only, with no return-yardage or touchback deduction.
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.07 EPA/play | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | 0 | 4 |
2026 stat leaders · Oklahoma State
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · Oklahoma StateWyatt Young leads Oklahoma State with 205 receiving yards through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Oklahoma State fields a struggling offense behind a porous, gives up the big play defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Oklahoma State reads strongest in rushing epa allowed (top 66%) and explosive plays (top 69%); the crux lives in rushing epa, where Oklahoma State sits at the 1st percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Oklahoma State · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Oklahoma State is worth +4.5 points more at home than on the road.
Middle of FBS, 60th percentile of 133 programs
65% at home, 40% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (31–17 home, 17–26 away). Interval ±4.4.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Oklahoma State has beaten the number by +5.5 more at home than away over 73 games — inside the ±7.7 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
Boone Pickens Stadium seats 55,509 and has averaged 92% full (51,331, 28 games reported). Visitors cover a median 324 miles to get here since 2018 — 44th-shortest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. 20% of the 2026 roster (23 of 113 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 53 home games since 2018.
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Scheme claims
Fourth-quarter reliability, corrected
Oklahoma State's 4th-quarter offense, before and after garbage time
Raw Q4 EPA/play ranks 13th percentile in FBS. Strip out snaps taken with a blowout margin and it climbs to the 16th — the correction is the finding, not a footnote.
Standard downs vs. passing downs
Does Oklahoma State hold up once the down-and-distance turns against them?
41st percentile success on standard downs, 49th on passing downs — little dropoff between the two — a schedule-independent identity.
View all FBS teams as a table
| Team | Standard-downs percentile | Passing-downs percentile |
|---|---|---|
| App State | 44th | 90th |
| Arizona | 92nd | 86th |
| Arkansas | 60th | 80th |
| Auburn | 75th | 55th |
| Ball State | 12th | 24th |
| Baylor | 40th | 96th |
| Boise State | 58th | 46th |
| Boston College | 27th | 56th |
| Buffalo | 7th | 14th |
| California | 9th | 25th |
| Central Michigan | 16th | 6th |
| Charlotte | 73rd | 83rd |
| Clemson | 1st | 19th |
| Coastal Carolina | 61st | 52nd |
| Colorado | 35th | 77th |
| Colorado State | 82nd | 91st |
| Delaware | 70th | 31st |
| Duke | 20th | 29th |
| Eastern Michigan | 52nd | 10th |
| Florida Atlantic | 43rd | 87th |
| Florida International | 46th | 43rd |
| Florida State | 28th | 65th |
| Georgia Southern | 24th | 45th |
| Georgia Tech | 58th | 44th |
| Hawai'i | 18th | 41st |
| Iowa State | 4th | 23rd |
| Jacksonville State | 65th | 82nd |
| Kansas | 70th | 35th |
| LSU | 33rd | 98th |
| Liberty | 14th | 59th |
| Louisiana | 19th | 92nd |
| Louisville | 96th | 70th |
| Memphis | 69th | 65th |
| Michigan | 2nd | 62nd |
| Michigan State | 62nd | 29th |
| Middle Tennessee | 87th | 68th |
| Missouri | 36th | 85th |
| Navy | 98th | 59th |
| Nevada | 77th | 52nd |
| New Mexico State | 45th | 75th |
| Norfolk State | 16th | 9th |
| North Dakota State | 86th | 27th |
| North Texas | 49th | 68th |
| Ohio | 38th | 17th |
| Ohio State | 90th | 40th |
| Oklahoma State | 41st | 49th |
| Ole Miss | 94th | 50th |
| Oregon | 35th | 33rd |
| Oregon State | 10th | 38th |
| Pittsburgh | 30th | 76th |
| Purdue | 83rd | 88th |
| Rutgers | 30th | 71st |
| Sacramento State | 23rd | 14th |
| Sam Houston | 78th | 61st |
| San Diego State | 4th | 40th |
| San José State | 54th | 22nd |
| South Alabama | 50th | 73rd |
| South Florida | 91st | 52nd |
| Stanford | 76th | 15th |
| Syracuse | 48th | 64th |
| TCU | 93rd | 8th |
| Tennessee | 65th | 78th |
| Texas | 72nd | 94th |
| Texas A&M | 85th | 72nd |
| Texas Tech | 88th | 48th |
| Troy | 22nd | 59th |
| Tulane | 31st | 2nd |
| Tulsa | 56th | 1st |
| UAB | 65th | 81st |
| UNLV | 51st | 7th |
| USC | 97th | 99th |
| UTSA | 99th | 29th |
| Utah State | 4th | 93rd |
| Vanderbilt | 80th | 12th |
| Wake Forest | 56th | 97th |
| Washington | 81st | 4th |
| Washington State | 8th | 3rd |
| Western Kentucky | 25th | 34th |
| Western Michigan | 39th | 20th |
| Wisconsin | 13th | 18th |
| Wyoming | 65th | 36th |
Halftime identity
Oklahoma State by half
1st-half offense ranks 20th percentile in FBS; 2nd-half, 6th — competitive snaps only, garbage time excluded from both halves.
Pass defense by zone
Pass-depth identity
What this team throws, and gives up, by depth.
On short throws (≤19 air yards), Oklahoma State’s passing game completes a completion rate below the FBS mean (64.2% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 86-play sample) — mid-pack, 8 of 41 qualifying offenses.
We won’t show a deep-ball (20+ air yards) leaderboard here, on either side of the ball: even a full season of charted plays gives most teams well under 30 deep attempts — too thin to tell a real tendency from noise, so we won’t guess. Same refusal for yards-after-catch allowed and where a team’s attempts land by zone: both measured and both came back statistically indistinguishable from season-to-season noise.
Ratings
Comparable teams
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Historical echo
Historical echo
Oklahoma State’s slide has precedent — and 1 of the 4 closest kept falling.
Programs whose stature fell in the same shape. The grey line is their decline; the color is what came next for them.
An analogy on the shape of a program’s Zeitgeist stature arc — not a prediction. Interim calibration, medium confidence; matched among current FBS programs at a comparable level.
Conditions
71°F average kickoff temp; 6% of games had measurable precipitation; 9 mph average wind.
Based on 80 home games with weather data.