STILLWATER, Okla. — Outside the team meeting room, a sign issued a series of reminders for No. 6 Oklahoma State leading into a game against Kansas that seemed on paper to be a mismatch of mammoth proportions.
The last two: “NO AMBUSH” and “NO REGRETS.” No problem.
Brandon Weeden threw for 288 yards and five touchdowns before being pulled out of a lopsided game before halftime, and Oklahoma State matched its highest scoring total from the last 94 years in a 70-28 rout of the Jayhawks on Saturday.
“It was pretty efficient,” coach Mike Gundy said. “Some days, things just work, you know? You hit a golf ball and it hits a tree limb and bounces back in the fairway.”
Everything the Cowboys did was working.
Jamie Blatnick recovered a fumble and leaped to tip an interception to himself for two of the Cowboys’ four first-half takeaways, and Oklahoma State scored touchdowns on all eight of its possessions before halftime against the nation’s worst defense.
“I’ve never been a part of anything like that,” Weeden said. “We scored every time we touched it.”
Kansas came in allowing a Bowl Subdivision-worst 44.3 points per game, and Oklahoma State had already surpassed that total with four minutes left in the second quarter on Weeden’s second TD pass to All-American receiver Justin Blackmon.
That score made it 49-7, and backup Clint Chelf tacked on a 3-yard TD pass to Hubert Anyiam with 12 seconds left before halftime to give OSU 56 consecutive points.
Chelf added 206 yards on 14-for-21 passing with two TDs. The 494 yards passing allowed were the most ever for Kansas, surpassing the 481 by North Carolina State — mostly by Philip Rivers — in 2003.
“It’s hard to stop. They have a great tempo, and it’s run by a very veteran quarterback,” Jayhawks offensive coordinator Chuck Long said. “I think he’s like six months younger than (Green Bay Packers quarterback) Aaron Rodgers.
“Being in that position, when you have a mature guy like that running things, when you call plays you know he can fix it. He’s at the point of his career where he’ll turn a bad play into a good one.”
