Hes savvy to get free on rush and hes got a great touch.

Oklahoma State won its 21st consecutive home opener last week against Southeastern Louisiana, but the level of competition shifts direction Saturday when Central Michigan visits Boone Pickens Stadium.The Cowboys, ranked No. 21 in the first regular-season poll of 2016, will keep the focus similar to the opener -- start fast, score early and get the early takeaway to feed momentum. That begins for the Cowboys with holding down Chippewas quarterback Cooper Rush.We saw Cooper Rush last year and hes steady. Hes a senior now. Hes put up a lot of yardage. Hes savvy to get free on rush and hes got a great touch. He can throw the deep-out cuts. Basically, besides the tight end, theyve got the whole wide-fence back, and they pretty much move the ball on everybody they play, Cowboys defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer said of Rush, who has 68 career touchdown passes but was intercepted twice and sacked three times in the opener against FCS opponent Presbyterian.The Cowboys handled Central Michigan last season, 24-13, but Rush held strong in the pocket and completed 28 of 41 passes for 225 yards, rushed for 51 and scored the Chippewas touchdown. Cowboys coach Mike Gundy called Rush a potential NFL player. NFLDraftScout.com ranks Rush as the No. 4 quarterback prospect in the 2017 draft.He made a lot of great throws against us (last year), right on the money, safety Tre Flowers said of Rush.CMU coach John Bonamengo said Rush had only one bad throw in the opener, and praised the CMU running game for churning out 255 yards on the ground in the blowout. Devon Spalding had the big play last week, a 69-yard sprint down the sideline, but senior Jahray Hayes had three TD runs behind a big offensive line that Oklahoma State described as huge.Each one of the offensive linemen played their butts off for us, said Spalding, who rushed for 135 yards in the opener.If the Chippewas want to follow the footsteps of Western Michigan -- a MAC neighbor which pulled the big upset at Northwestern last week -- defensive improvement will be critical. Last week the improvement was there, but the Cowboys are capable of inflicting critical damage on almost every play.Oklahoma State scored in just about every way possible last week, rolling up 60 points and handing the late part of the game to second- and third-teamers.Cowboys quarterback Mason Rudolph didnt get much work, but looked quicker and leaner to Gundy. Rudolph completed 18 of 26 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns, while playing about half the game.Mason played with a lot of intensity and a lot of focus. There were a couple of errors, but for the most part Mason came through for us. He secured the football, OSU offensive coordinator Mike Yurich said. Obviously we have to work on the quarterback-center exchange. That was a big mishap, but Mason took care of the ball and made really good decisions. There were a couple of times he has to make better decisions, so its a work in progress, but he did a fine job. He really did some good things extending plays, making plays on his feet and avoiding the rush. Obviously all of the work hes done during the offseason paid off because he was able to be more mobile than weve ever seen, so hats off to him.The new wheels are meaningful for Rudolph in the pocket and on the move, and its another element of the multi-faceted running game that will make the Cowboys a challenge to defend.We have the mindset we can beat anybody, Hayes said. We think were going to go down there and beat them. Cheap Kings Jerseys Authentic . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. Cheap Adidas Kings Jerseys . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night. http://www.cheaplosangeleskingsjerseys.com/ .Y. -- Jayna Hefford scored the winning goal Friday as Canada survived a scare with a 4-3 win over Sweden at the Four Nations womens hockey tournament. 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California and Oregon were among the other schools pursuing Nowell.Despite the talent going through the Washington program, the Huskies havent been to the NCAA tournament since 2011. But after Marquese Chriss and Dejounte Murray were drafted last week and last falls signing of elite guard Markelle Fultz, Nowell feels good about the direction of the program.?If I didnt have any confidence in them at all, I would still have all the confidence in the world now, he said. I trust the coaching staff at Washington and I wouldnt feel right anywhere else.Washington doesnt have anyy other commits in the 2017 class -- as four-star guard Daejon Davis (No.dddddddddddd39) decommitted in April after originally pledging to the Huskies last August.In an interesting twist, Nowell and Davis are teammates in the Seattle Rotary AAU program.Ive always been the dude to let them make their own decision, Nowell said. If he wants to come here, thatll be great. 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