Big 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
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #262 | #107 | -13✗ | @Tulsa | L 10–24 143 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #263 | #2 | +24.5✓ | OregonTop 10 win | W 39–31 142 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #234 | #256 | Murray State | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #231 | #166 | @West Virginia | ||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | UCF | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Houston | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | Colorado | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @Iowa State | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Kansas State | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Texas Tech | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | @Arizona State | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | Kansas |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Oregon | W 39–31 | 554 | 2 | 36:54 | +0.036 | 43.7% | 113.5% | |
| Sep 5 | @Tulsa | L 10–24 | 368 | 4 | 31:05 | -0.071 | 36.4% | 103.1% | |
| Season average (2 games) | 461 | 3.0 | -0.017 | 40.0% | 108.3% | ||||
Oklahoma State spent twenty years as Mike Gundy's program — then fired him three games into a 1-11 collapse and handed a flattened roster to Eric Morris, the first sitting FBS coach Stillwater has ever hired.
The fanbase spent a generation insisting Stillwater was its own program, not a satellite of the school 80 miles south. A 1-11 season handed Oklahoma every easy joke — and the room is daring Morris to…
The season in chapters
What fans said
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What it is like to watch them2025 · 1-11 · last season
✓ measured from 12 games · ranks are among Big 12 teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Cold. 1-9 over the last 10, and won the last one.
North Texas is not the same team as last year. Coach Eric Morris and the majority of the team moved on to Oklahoma State
Next Sep 19
vs Murray State · at home
✓ fact on line · ~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-14
the open questionis the portal class enough to move the needle?
Kyran Duhon and Wendell Gregory arrive as Oklahoma State's top-3 Big 12 portal class tries to salvage a 1-11 season with Mike Gundy's identity on the line.
our readfront page
Eric Morris inherits a 1-11 losing record at Oklahoma State, a program long defined by its contrast to Oklahoma, now facing identity uncertainty in his first season.
our readdeveloping
Eric Morris took over as Oklahoma State's head coach, replacing Doug Meacham.
our readbackground
Gundy's second straight top-10 portal class arrives after a 1-11 season with 44% production returning — Mestemaker and Hawkins fill holes in a program defined by defiance.
our readfront page
Eric Morris inherits a 1-11 losing record and a program identity built around being not-Oklahoma, raising questions about how he redefines it in his first season.
our readbackground
Kalib Hicks sees a real spike in usage once the game is out of reach, and his efficiency in competitive snaps sits below the position baseline -- the numbers lean on the opponent giving up.
our readdeveloping
Eric Morris, who previously coached at North Texas, inherits a 1-11 roster and a program that hasn't defined itself since Mike Gundy's era — the identity vacuum is as stark.
our readbackground
Gavin Freeman is used almost exclusively underneath -- a low share of his targets are downfield shots.
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Rodney Fields Jr. does NOT see a usage spike in garbage time -- his workload holds steady regardless of score.
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Oklahoma State: coordinator change reshaping a unit.
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Mike Gundy's 10th season opens with a 1-11 losing record and a #49 talent rank, raising questions about whether Oklahoma State can cross into bowl eligibility with its current trajectory.
our readdeveloping
Outcome band · Oklahoma State · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
Oklahoma State signed a top-20 transfer-portal class — 40 additions headlined by Hauss Hejny (QB) from TCU and Banks Bowen (QB) from Tulsa. It is a top-2 portal class in the Big 12 this cycle. Portal pickups don't redshirt. The coverage sees this as a targeted, ready-to-contribute class built for snap competition, not depth-chart filler. The coverage reads this as a credible, targeted haul.
The 'portal class fills the gaps' believers -- upgrades at real positions of need.
The 'portal is a gamble' counter -- departure losses and the 'plug-and-play doesn't work' read.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
This event was in 29 of 2231 board posts (1%) over the last 60 days — engaged but not consumed. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Oklahoma State: the fanbase's identity shifting.
The optimistic read: momentum, and the 'this is real' takes.
The analytical counter: rankings, results, and 'the hype is ahead of the tape' takes.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
This event was in 202 of 2231 board posts (9%) over the last 60 days — engaged but not consumed. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Fan mood index · most recent r/cfb data
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Oklahoma State is the program that lived in Mike Gundy's mullet for 20 years and built a Big 12 identity around being not-Oklahoma.
The program ledger
since 2025Oklahoma State's Iman Oates granted temporary restraining order in eligibility case against NCAA
A temporary restraining order forcing the NCAA's hand on a 2022 athlete's eligibility isn't just one player's fight — Morris gets a potential depth add at WR while a class ranked 69th nationally needs every live body it can claim.
Odaefe Oruru flips to Oklahoma State
Oruru flips from Arkansas to Stillwater with dress rehearsal week already here — an OL add for a class ranked 69th that needed the pressure room shored up before the opener.
S Markeith Williams transfer commits from Miami
Safety room bled 12 out and added 10 back, but Landyn Cleveland's exit left a starter-shaped hole — Williams coming out of Miami's ACC program is the answer Gundy needed at the top of that depth chart.
Win total: 5.5 → 4.5 (▼1)
Win total dropped from 5.5 to 4.5 with conference peers flat — the books see something program-specific.
Oklahoma State depth chart breakdown published
Mestemaker's walk-on-to-QB1 arc is the feel-good story, but the depth chart drop reveals the real anxiety — WR depth at class rank #69 is a structural problem Morris hasn't solved before Big 12 defenses start scheming it.
Win total: 5.5 → 6.5 (▲1)
Win total jumped from 5.5 to 6.5 with conference peers flat — the books see something program-specific.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
TX leads the 2026 class with 7 commits. National footprint reaching 9 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
84 signees across 16 states, 2023-2026. TX leads the pull.
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median Oklahoma State player grew up 316 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Boone Pickens Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 113 of 117 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top community posts · last 12 months · r/cfb
Fan confidence in a typical range for this program right now
36th percentile among FBS programs
9 of 68 AP voters have them ranked, AP ballot, week 3 (2026) — from #21, Adam Lichtenstein (South Florida Sun-Sentinel), to #24, Randy Johnson (Minneapolis Star Tribune). 59 voters left them off the ballot entirely.
Individual AP Top 25 ballots, AP ballot, week 3, 2026 — 68 voters tracked.
The flags have favored them: 16 penalties drawn on opponents vs. 8 committed, 79 yards to the good.
89 penalty yards committed vs. 168 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · Oklahoma State · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026