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OSU-Iowa State more important than last year? No, but it's pretty big
Published: 10/17/2012 7:33 PM
Last Modified: 10/17/2012 7:33 PM

Our own John Klein wrote this week that Oklahoma State's football season is at a crossroads.

He's not lying.

(You can read his OSU column here).

There was definitely more at stake in last year's game against Iowa State, but this year's game is plenty important.

The Cowboys need it to keep their season from coming off the rails.

As we've seen with Oklahoma already this year, you shouldn't judge a season by one game.

But to this point, Oklahoma State's body of work leaves a lot to be desired. The Cowboys are 3-2, which on its face doesn't seem too bad. Then you see those three teams are a combined 5-13 and four of the wins are by Louisiana-Lafayette, and it's a little harder to be optimistic.

OSU is a bad call away from beating Texas, sure. That, however, is part of the point.

This isn't your last season, best team in school history, touched by the football gods Oklahoma State squad.

A year ago, the Cowboys led the nation in forced turnovers with 44 -- or double the median number of the 120 teams in Division I.

This year, OSU is tied for 116th out of 120 Division I teams in forced turnovers.

The seven teams left on Oklahoma State's schedule are all better than any team its beaten this season -- by at least 30 spots according to the current Sagarin Ratings.

So Saturday's homecoming game against Iowa State figures to set the tone for the rest of the season.

A win over the Cyclones, who find themselves in the Top 25, would set up OSU for a nice bounce-back season from last year's Big 12 title campaign.

But if the Cowboys can't beat Iowa State -- with the added motivation of last week's poor performance at Kansas and last year's national-title derailing loss in Ames -- the rest of the season doesn't look good.

There's no crystal football at stake Saturday, but a season certainly hangs in the balance.

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