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Oklahoma State Post-Game Notes vs. TCU
October 19, 2013 | Cowboy Football
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Oklahoma State Post-Game Notes vs. TCU
Boone Pickens Stadium | Stillwater, Okla. | Oct. 19, 2013
:: Today's attendance of 59,638 is a new Boone Pickens Stadium record. The previous high of 59,061 was earlier this season against Lamar.
:: Serving as Oklahoma State captains today were Tracy Moore, Jeremy Smith, Joe Mitchell and Shamiel Gary.
:: Oklahoma State has now won 21-straight home games against unranked opponents dating back to a loss to Houston in 2009. That ties OSU with Michigan and Virginia Tech for the sixth-longest active streak in the country, trailing only Alabama (27), Clemson (26), Oregon (23), Northern Illinois (23) and LSU (22).
:: Today's win was OSU's seventh-straight home win dating back to last season's loss to Texas, and it improved the Cowboys to 15-1 in their last 16 games in Boone Pickens Stadium dating back to the start of the 2011 season.
:: TCU managed just 325 yards of total offense against the Cowboys. That marks the lowest total by an OSU FBS opponent since the Pokes held Texas Tech to 270 total yards in 2011.
:: OSU has recorded nine takeaways in its last two games, six of those via interception.
:: With two touchdown drives of two minutes or less today, the Cowboys have 58 such drives since the beginning of last year The total is the third-most in the FBS during that span, trailing only Oregon's 77 and Baylor's 71.
:: OSU has scored 20 or more points in 45 consecutive games dating back to the start of the 2010 season. That streak is the second-longest since Division I split into the FBS/FCS in 1978, trailing only USC's 63 straight games of 20 or more points from Sept. 2, 2002 through Nov. 25, 2006.
:: With 10 catches today, junior Josh Stewart moved into sixth place on OSU's career receptions list with 151. The 10 grabs marked also marked Stewart's season high.
:: Stewart finished with 141 receiving yards, going over the 100-yard receiving mark for the seventh time in his career. That ties him with Adarius Bowman for the fifth most by a Cowboy.
:: The game also marked the second time this season Stewart had 100 receiving yards in the first half. He had 106 at intermission. (He had 123 yards at the half against West Virginia).
:: Josh Stewart's 95-yard punt return for a touchdown was the longest punt return in school history. The previous long was 90 yards, set by Jim Wiggins vs. Detroit in 1956 and Jim Spavital vs. Drake in 1946.
:: Stewart's 124 punt return yards against TCU are the eight most in a single game in school history.
:: Stewart's punt return touchdown was his second of the season (67 yarder vs. Lamar on 9/14), tying a school record. Dez Bryant (2008), Darrent Williams (2003) and Barry Sanders (1987) also had two punt returns for scores in a season.
:: Justin Gilbert's interception in the second quarter was his third of the season and eighth of his career. The senior has five picks in 2011.
:: Freshman Rennie Childs scored the first touchdown of his career on a seven-yard run in the fourth quarter. Childs also finished with a career-high 45 rushing yards on nine carries.
