Josh Pate: 'Poverty Program Oklahoma State is going to look at Christmas lights'

Oklahoma State Head coach Mike Gundy walks on the field before an NCAA football game between Oklahoma State (OSU) and UT Martin in Stillwater, Okla., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. | NATHAN J. FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesOn his show Thursday Josh Pate told a story, a parable of Christmases and College Football Saturdays past.

"Boy oh Boy," Pate began. "Sometimes the Sarah McLachlan Special sneaks up on you."

In Pate's lexicon, the Sara McLachlan Special is a college football matchup so one-sided that it elicits the strains of "The Arms of an Angel," the crystalline-voiced Canadian singer's tender ballad about the weak and vulnerable, famously used as the backdrop for…