Oklahoma State’s 2025-26 season is set to begin on Tuesday night against Oral Roberts in Gallagher-Iba Arena. With Steve Lutz entering his second season as OSU’s head coach, there’s a chance for this year to look much different than his first.

BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma State hosts Oral Roberts in the season opener. Oklahoma State went 17-18 overall last season while going 13-4 at home. The Cowboys averaged 16.4 points off of turnovers, 11.6 second-chance points and 30.6 bench points last season.

Tennessee is projected to play in the Music City Bowl versus Illinois. The Music City Bowl will be contested on Dec. 30 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Kickoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. EST and will be televised by ESPN.

Oklahoma State is in the midst of a bye week, but it already has some troubling news about its next matchup. Over the past couple of months, OSU has gone from a program optimistic about bouncing back after an offseason full of changes to a dejected Big 12 bottom-feeder in the process of making the biggest changes the program has seen in decades.

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No. 22 Oklahoma State takes on the East Texas A&M Lions after Micah Gray scored 24 points in Oklahoma State's 109-48 win against the New Orleans Privateers.

Oklahoma State saw some more encouraging signs, but it didn’t translate to the scoreboard. OSU lost 38-21 to Kansas on Saturday afternoon at David Booth Kansas