OSU’s Turnover Margin Rate is Historic(ally Bad)

You already know that Oklahoma State turns the ball over a lot. You already know that this is a Spencer Sanders problem. You already know that Jim Knowles’ defenses don’t turn teams over. What you might now know is that when you add all of this up, OSU actually has the worst conference-only turnover margin in the last decade of Big 12 football. That’s 114 team seasons since 2009, and nobody has been worse (so far).

Seriously.

Here are the five worst per-game numbers since 2009.

Baylor (2009): -1.25

West Virginia (2013): -1.33

Texas (2010): -1.50

Kansas (2017): -1.56

Oklahoma State (2019): -1.75

There’s actually worse news though: The combined record of those other four teams was 14-34. The best…