Recruiting stars matter but are not the end all, be all — else Texas would definitely have been back by now and Oklahoma State would have been floating in Texas Tech territory for over a decade.
But recruiting stars and rankings don’t not matter entirely, either.
So who has the advantage as OSU faces Wisconsin in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl this week?
I crunched the numbers and came away surprised by the data. Both good and bad. The good came on defense, where OSU has the slight edge. The bad came on offense, particularly along the offensive line, where OSU not only is pretty average but also where Wisconsin has bullies.