STILLWATER — Imagine studying for a test but the material changes almost on a daily basis.
That’s how Oklahoma State football practices feel right now as the 20th-ranked Cowboys try to prepare for a Texas A&M team in upheaval prior to the Texas Bowl at 8 p.m. Wednesday inside NRG Stadium in Houston.
Texas A&M fired head coach Jimbo Fisher in November. Offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino took a new job not long after. Interim head coach Elijah Robinson spends his off days recruiting for his next employer, Syracuse, where he’ll be the defensive coordinator.
More than a dozen Aggie players have entered the transfer portal and a few more have declared for the NFL Draft. The rest of the remaining coaches are searching for their next job.
For Oklahoma State, this is more like preparing for a season opener than an end-of-year bowl.
Trying to dissect who the Aggies will put on the field, and how they will be used, seems mostly futile.
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Oklahoma State’s Alan Bowman (7) leads the team out before the Big 12 Football Championship game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the Texas Longhorns at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.
“You don’t know who’s gonna be playing,” OSU quarterback Alan Bowman said. “It’s gonna be in and out. There’s some guys going to the NFL Draft, some guys that’ll be in the portal. There’ll be some guys playing that we haven’t seen as much.”
With the transfer portal window open until Jan. 2, movement is still happening.
“I saw they had another wideout leave a day or two ago, but I don’t know if he’s playing in the bowl,” OSU head coach Mike Gundy said Wednesday. “We just have what’s left on paper.”
And on game tape, but even that can be…
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Publish date : 2023-12-23 12:01:52
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