Call it a broken record, but EA Sports College Football 25 thinks Oklahoma State is going to win its first Big 12 Conference game Saturday at 6 p.m. against Arizona State in the Cowboys’ Homecoming game.
I simulated OSU’s crucial home game 10 times and made it an evening kickoff with 15-minute quarters. Below are the results of The O’Colly‘s weekly OSU game simulations.
Average score, result
The Cowboys went 6-4 against the Sun Devils, and the average score was OSU 31.9-27.1. The 4.8-point margin of victory meant EA Sports not only projects OSU to cover the 3-point spread but also completely flip the line the Cowboys’ way.
The over/under game total of 58.5 seems pretty spot on, as the game total average was 59.
Cowboy statistics
On average, OSU had 391.7 total yards of offense. ASU had 358.3 yards of total offense.
Cowboy quarterback Alan Bowman completed 63.3% of his passes and threw for 219.4 yards, 2.4 touchdowns and 0.5 interceptions on average.
Running back Ollie Gordon II averaged 18.1 carries for 131.6 yards and 0.7 touchdowns. Now on Week 10 of sims, and Gordon hasn’t fumbled once in any College Football 25 game.
As for the wide receivers, Brennan Presley averaged 3.4 receptions, 60.4 receiving yards and 0.8 receiving touchdowns; De’Zhaun Stribling averaged three receptions, 42.5 receiving yards and 0.7 receiving touchdowns; and Rashod Owens averaged 2.6 receptions, 33.6 receiving yards and 0.3 receiving touchdowns.
On defense, safety Lyrik Rawls led the Cowboys in tackles four times (and tied with safety Trey Rucker once), Rucker led twice (and tied with Rawls), cornerback Cam Smith led twice and defensive end Kody Walterscheid led once.
And kicker Logan Ward went 18 of 21 kicking field goals and 28 of 29 kicking PATs.
More results
Presley returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown in Game 7, which was his first return touchdown in a weekly sim. Since The O’Colly simmed OSU’s seam before its first game, Presley hadn’t returned a kickoff for a touchdown.
Also, twice (Games 2 and 9) it went into overtime. ASU won the first OT game after an OSU turnover on downs, and the Cowboys took the second in a double-overtime thriller that ended with a Sun Devils missed field goal.
EA Sports still has faith in the Cowboys. Which, to be fair, if there’s any week to have faith in OSU, it’s Homecoming. The Cowboys have won their last eight Homecoming games, so maybe EA Sports can finally nail a game prediction.
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