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.