Originally published at: Scoreboard Might Not Show It, but OSU’s Offense Took a Big Step Forward Under Kevin Johns
STILLWATER — Oklahoma State’s offense has spent most of the season doing a pretty good Charlie Brown impression. The Cowboys usually get a good start early in the game, only to see the football taken away sometime late in the second quarter. Then the offense is only allowed to move the ball again once the game is firmly out of reach in the fourth quarter. It didn’t change the result, but Oklahoma State finally managed to flip the script in Saturday’s 49-17 loss to No. 24 Cincinnati. All four of the Cowboys’ complete drives in the second and third quarters went for at least 33 yards. Three of them went for at least 62 and resulted in 14 points. That probably had something to do with the way interim coach Doug Meacham chose to start his postgame press conference. “Some positives there, right?” Meachm said. “We felt good at times. There was a feeling at times that ‘Hey, we’re about to turn the corner.’ “And then things just didn’t work out.” When Oklahoma State’s offense did fail, it often did so not because Cincinnati played particularly well, but because OSU’s offense finally imploded either in the form of a 100-yard…
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