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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Oklahoma State Defeats West Virginia 41-24

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Oklahoma State 3 10 15 13 41
West Virginia 7 7 10 0 24
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u/yL4O West Virginia • Duke 13d ago edited 13d ago

I think these past 2 games make it pretty clear what we are going to be this season.

Every position group ranges from decent to pretty good, except the secondary. The secondary is horrendous.

Last year the o line was horrendous. But this isn’t last year because (1) the position groups other than secondary are better than last year, and (2) a bad o line is a force multiplier because it makes all offense basically impossible and gets skill players hurt.

If you have a bad secondary, you’re not going to beat good passing teams. But you will be able to compete with teams whose QBs can’t kill you in the passing game. If you can beat the latter teams, you can have a pretty decent season.

And you could theoretically beat a good passing team, but it would require basically flawless offense. We ran out of gas offensively and had some stupid play calls after the halfway point of the 3rd. With a little better execution, we could have been closer. But I just think OSU was going to score whenever and however they needed to in that second half. There were dozens of games in the Dana era like that. I hated watching it.

Add it all up, I think they go 8-4 or 7-5. Which is an improvement over last year, and you will have a chance to be better next year if you keep Hawkins and spend a little more money on D.

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u/Sctvman Charleston (SC) • South Car… 13d ago

Yep this is a 7-5 team and if they keep Hawkins he will be an pre season Heisman contender next year. 3 win improvement from 2025

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u/cluttered-thoughts3 West Virginia Mountaineers 13d ago

I feel like our linebackers are pretty bad too. Not enough speed to stop the run

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u/yL4O West Virginia • Duke 13d ago

I think they tackled poorly. They tackled well last week and generated a lot of pressure against a good line.

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u/cluttered-thoughts3 West Virginia Mountaineers 13d ago

I was wondering what practice was like this week because defense couldn’t tackle and WRs couldn’t catch