After an up-and-down 9-3 season, Oklahoma State will head to the Camping World Bowl to face a nasty Virginia Tech defense that upended West Virginia early in the year. It’s not exactly how we saw the season panning out as the Pokes lost three at home and didn’t even match last year’s postseason destination in San Antonio.
I’ve had a few weeks to digest what unfolded in 2017 and what’s to come in the future years, and I have five takeaways
1. Rudolph not what I thought
This one is tough given that he just led a more efficient offense than Brandon Weeden did in 2011 (#factsonly), but I thought Mason Rudolph’s trajectory was as a Heisman Trophy candidate and, at the very least, a Big 12 title game participant.