In the college football power index, OSU is now ranked #113 out of #128 FBS football teams. Offense is ranked #112. Defense is ranked #114.
Yikes. Save Oregon, we're not even in the toughest part of the schedule. Doing a quick bit of crunching some numbers, if the season continues the way it's going, OSU will be ranked dead last in all of FBS.
The best HC of all-time retired the year before NIL. Nick Saban knew what was going to happen. Many others followed suit.
We can be mad all we want while pointing the finger at the most successful OSU HC of all-time. The NIL destroyed college football. NIL destroyed Oklahoma State football. It's sad. It really is. It doesn't matter who the HC is.. unless OSU football receives a massive influx of NIL monies, OSU will be a perpetual and perennial bottom feeder of the FBS. The golden era is sadly over.
Damn you, NIL. Damn you to hell.