If you can’t consistently and effectively run the ball, you can’t sustain drives or protect leads. It’s a lot harder to impose your will on your opponent. When you struggled to hold your ground, you quickly switch from the aggressor to the passive party.
Oklahoma State is reeling, fresh off of back-to-back losses across the Kansas border. In just a couple of weeks, the Cowboys went from Big 12 favorites wielding one of the most potent offenses in the country to getting blanked by Kansas Starte and lapped by Kansas. What happened? OSU couldn’t consistently and effectively run the ball.