Oklahoma State makes the trip west to visit Provo, Utah and the BYU Cougars for a Friday night matchup!
Here’s the complete Gameday schedule plus previews from The Animals! All Gameday coverage is LIVE on 98.1 FM, ESPN 640AM plus streaming on the Sports Animal app, website and the iHeartRadio app. Matt Meyer is the Executive Producer of Gameday coverage on WWLS and keeps you up-to-date on all the action from across College Football with Scoreboard updates served up by Twin Peaks.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 18th
5a-9a: Morning Animals and Oklahoma State Gameday coverage
9a-12p: The Drive w/ Matt Ravis
11a-2p: Middle of the Day Show w/ Mark Rodgers
2p-6p: Jim Traber & Al Eschbach along w/ Berry Tramel and Dean Blevins
6p-7p: Inside Sports w/ Al Eschbach
7p-9p: Oklahoma State Countdown to Kickoff/Bud Light Gametime LIVE “On the Road” from Grady’s Pub in Yukon with Anheuser Busch specials. Gideon Hamilton and Tyler “Teabag” Adams anchor pregame coverage with in-depth previews and analysis along with special guests and take you right up to kickoff.
KICKOFF @ 9:15pm – OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS vs. BYU COUGARS / TV: ESPN
9:15p-12:30a: ESPNRadio
12:30a-2:30a: Oklahoma State Football Feedback/Bud Light GameTime “On the Road” from Grady’s Pub in Yukon with Anheuser Busch specials. Gideon Hamilton and Tyler “Teabag” Adams deliver instant reaction to the game plus take your calls and texts at 405-900-WWLS (9957).
Game Previews from The Animals
Gideon Hamilton: The Oklahoma State Cowboys are still searching for answers in the 2024 season. The good news is the team will have nearly two weeks to find them headed into their next game. OSU travels to Provo late Friday night for a meeting with undefeated BYU. The Cowboys are coming off their most embarrassing outing of the season, allowing an astounding 389 yards rushing to West Vriginia, a team also now 3-3 on the year. Oklahoma State faces a defensive crisis headed into what was thought to be the easier part of this year’s schedule at the start of conference play. Beginning with the undefeated Cougars, three of their next four games will be on the road. Also they have yet to play BYU, Arizona State and Texas Tech. Those three teams have combined to lose two games total this season. The Cowboys will need a quick gimmick defensively or to return to a nearly exclusive running team offensively in order to steer this season in the right direction.
This Week in BIG12 Football – Week 7
- Big 12 running backs have rushed for 175 yards or more in a game six times this season, which equals the other P4 conferences combined
- According to ESPN’s FPI, BYU (No. 3) and Iowa State (No. 5) rank in the nation’s top five for strength of record.
- Arizona State and Texas Tech are the only programs in the nation with four wins in one-score games this season.
- Six Big 12 quarterbacks rank in the top 20 nationally in passing yards per game with no other conference having more than four. (CU’s Shedeur Sanders, TCU’s Josh Hoover, UC’s Brendan Sorsby, OSU’s Alan Bowman, TTU’s Behren Morton and UA’s Noah Fifita).
- The Conference accounts for five of the top ten P4 teams in rushing yards per game; UCF (first), K-State (third), Kansas (sixth), Arizona State (seventh) and West Virginia (eighth).
- Three of the top five rushers nationally in yards per game, and five of the top 10 in Power 4, come from the Big 12. (Tahj Brooks, TTU; DJ Giddens, K-State; Cam Skattebo, ASU; RJ Harvey, UCF; Micah Benard, Utah).
- Four of Power 4’s top 10 in receiving yards per game are from the Big 12: Arizona’s Tetairoa McMillan (123.7), TCU’s Jack Bech (117.0), Colorado’s Travis Hunter (97.8) and Oklahoma State’s De’Zhaun Stribling (92.7).
- K-State allowed -29 rushing yards on Saturday, which were the fewest given up by an FBS team this season. It also marked the fewest allowed in a Big 12 game since 2006.
- Iowa State’s 6-0 mark is the second-best start to a season in program history, trailing only a 7-0 start in 1938.
- BYU has started 6-0 for the sixth time in school history as Kalani Sitake joins LaVell Edwards as the only BYU head coaches to do it twice.