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Oklahoma State Postgame Quotes vs. Iowa State
November 07, 2009 | Cowboy Football
Nov. 7, 2009
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:: QB Zac Robinson entered the game just 74 passing yards short of Mike Gundy's career record of 7,997. He recorded 142 passing yards Saturday to up his career total to 8,065 and set the new OSU mark. He also owns Oklahoma State career records for total offense and touchdown passes.
:: Robinson set the record on a 10-yard touchdown pass to Tracy Moore in the second quarter.
:: Including Saturday's victory, Oklahoma State has now won five consecutive games over teams from the Big 12 North (at Missouri, Iowa State and at Colorado in 2008 and Missouri and at Iowa State in 2009)
:: Saturday's game was a matchup of strength against strength, as the Cyclones averaged 200.33 rushing yards per game entering the contest and the Cowboys had limited their opponents to only 99 rushing yards per contest. The Cowboys got the better end of the matchup Saturday, holding the Cyclones to 54 rushing yards.
:: Oklahoma State set a new season-high with 331 total rushing yards, eclipsing its 321-yard performance against Grambling State on Sept. 26.
:: OL Brady Bond did not play Saturday. His 39-game start streak was the second-longest on the team entering the contest.
:: Game captains for OSU were DT Swanson Miller, CB Andrew McGee and OL Noah Franklin.
:: RB Keith Toston carried the ball 25 times for a career-best 206 yards, marking the third time that he has eclipsed the 100-yard mark this year (at Texas A&M, at Baylor and at Iowa State). His 69-yard scamper in the fourth quarter marked a career long rush.
:: RB Keith Toston bumped his career rushing total to 2,389 in Saturday's game to move to 11th all-time at Oklahoma State. He passed Worley Taylor (2,217 yards from 1977-80 and Bob Fenimore (2,299 rushing yards from 1943-46). Teammate Kendall Hunter remains No. 10 all-time with 2,403 rushing yards.
:: Dan Bailey kicked a 42-yard field goal to cap OSU's opening possession. The Cowboys have scored on their opening drive in three of the last four games.
:: Dan Bailey's 48-yard field goal in the first quarter was the second-longest made field goal of his career. He nailed a 51-yarder in the Cowboys' win over Missouri earlier in the year.
:: Oklahoma State's defense suffocated the Iowa State offense in the first half, forcing four Cyclone punts and recording an interception in the first 30 minutes. At halftime, Iowa State had 93 total yards on 28 plays (45 rushing yards and 48 passing yards)
:: The Cowboy defense has pitched a first-half shutout in two of the last three games (at Baylor and at Iowa State) and has limited the opposition to three points or less in the first half four times this season (vs. Rice, vs. Grambling State, at Baylor and at Iowa State.)
:: CB Perrish Cox picked off an Austen Arnaud pass in the second quarter. It was the second interception of the year for Cox, who was named to the 12-man list of semifinalists for the Thorpe Award earlier in the week.
:: CB Terrance Anderson picked off an Austen Arnaud pass in the endzone to end a potential Cyclone scoring drive at the 4:57 mark of the third quarter.
:: LB Patrick Lavine intercepted Austen Arnaud in the fourth quarter. It was Lavine's fourth pick of the season and the seventh of his career.
:: RB Keith Toston punched in a two-yard touchdown run to cap an 11-play, 80-yard drive at the beginning of the second half, marking the fifth time this season that the Cowboy offense has scored a touchdown on its opening drive of the second half this year.
:: Freshman fullback David Paulsen made his first career start in Saturday's contest.
