Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy with questionable defense of RB Ollie Gordon II DUI

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy defended star RB Ollie Gordon II in a peculiar way

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy is standing by star running back Ollie Gordon II, who was arrested on June 30 for an alleged DUI.

Oklahoma State authorities observed Gordon swerving out of his lane twice and driving 82 mph in a 65 mph zone. He refused a field sobriety test and was arrested on complaints of DUI under 21 years of age, transporting an open container of alcohol, failing to maintain a single lane of traffic, and speeding 16-20 mph over the speed limit, according to a police report.

When given a breath test, Gordon blew a .11, above the .08 limit.

That would seem to be concerning to the school and its football coach.

Gundy, however, will not have Gordon miss any game time. Gordon won the Doak Walker Award as the best running back in college football as a sophomore last season when he rushed for 1,732 yards and 21 touchdowns.

“He’s going to play,” Gundy told ESPN on Tuesday. “I’m going to do what we think is best for Oklahoma State football, and I think it’s best for Ollie to play. If there’s any punishment, it’s making him carry the ball 50 times in the first game.”

Gundy, no stranger to controversy, then offered a bizarre and scary defense.

“I looked it up on my phone- what would be the legal limit?… 2 or 3 beers, or 4,” he said. “I’m not justifying what Ollie did; I’m telling you what decision I made. Well, I thought, I’ve probably done that a thousand times in my life.”

Ollie Gordon II is the Doak Walker running back of the week

Ollie Gordon II is playing like a man possessed over the last month.

After rushing for a total of 109 yards (36.3 yards per game) over the first three weeks of the season, [autotag]Oklahoma State Cowboys[/autotag] running back Ollie Gordon II has been an unstoppable force over the last four games.

In that stretch, Oklahoma State is 3-1 with the lone loss coming to Iowa State. During the four games, Gordon has averaged 176.8 yards per game. Against the West Virginia Mountaineers, he ran for 282 yards and four touchdowns. He still trails Tahj Brooks, Emani Bailey, and Jonathon Brooks for the most rushing yards in the Big 12 but leads the conference in rushing touchdowns.

For his performance in Week 8, the Doak Walker Award named him the national running back of the week honors. The announcement came on Tuesday morning.

Oklahoma State running back Ollie Gordon II ran for a season Division I FBS single-game best 282 yards and four touchdowns in a 48-34 win over West Virginia. The performance earned him the Doak Walker National Running Back of the Week honor for games of the weekend of Oct. 21. It’s the second straight week Gordon has been honored by the Doak Walker Award.

In the win over West Virginia, three of his touchdowns came in the fourth quarter on runs of 16, 46, and 53 yards. On the afternoon, Gordon had five runs of more than 25 yards. Gordon is the first Cowboy with four rushing touchdowns in a game since Rennie Childs on Sept. 17, 2016, against Pitt and the 282 yards are the most rushing yards by a Cowboy since All-American and Doak Walker Award finalist Chuba Hubbard ran for 296 yards against Kansas State on Sept. 28, 2019. – via a press release from the Doak Walker Award

Any time you can be mentioned in the same breath as Chuba Hubbard, you are definitely doing something right at the running back position. The Cowboys are currently 5-2 and will host the Cincinnati Bearcats at T. Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater on Saturday night. The game will be televised on ESPN2.