It has been a frustrating college football season for Oklahoma State running back Ollie Gordon II. Not only did the Cowboys drop to 3-5 at the hands of Baylor on Saturday, his relevance has rapidly declined.
The 20-year-old ball-carrier began the year as one of the top Heisman Trophy favorites and now he is not even listed with odds on most major sportsbooks.
Gordon ran for at least 100 yards in nine different games in 2023 after getting less than 10 carries per game during the first three games. He has only done so twice in 2024. The 6-foot-2, 225-pound junior ran for 50 yards or less in half of the games thus far.
Disappointing would be an understated word to describe Gordon’s performance. However, he scored a pair of touchdowns on 77 yards rushing during a chippy game against the Bears over the weekend.
Even though it was one of his three-best outings of the year, Oklahoma State could not rally behind Gordon to come out with the win. Baylor won 38-28. The unranked Pokes lost to a team that will probably fire its head coach in a few months. It was bad.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Gordon tried to fight members of the other team after the loss. The victors were chirping at him and he was chirping right back.
A video filmed from the nearby stands shows multiple staffers hold Gordon back from a potential brawl.
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To be fair, more than one player on the Bears needed to be restrained as well. It could’ve been all bark, no bite. Ollie Gordon might’ve been provoked. We don’t know the full story on what led up to that moment.
Whatever it was, this is just another sour note on a difficult season for one of the best running backs in college football. He is not performing up to expectations. His team is not winning. Frustration is clearly starting to boil over.