STILLWATER, Okla.- Savannah State opened their 2012 football season with a 84-0 setback from 19th ranked Oklahoma State.

The 55,784 fans in attendance at BoonePickens Stadium saw the OSU Cowboys score on their first five drives as they raced out to a 35-0 lead.

Savannah State (0-1) stopped OSU on their next three possessions.

Cornerback John Wilson intercepted a J.W. Walsh pass and returned it three yards to the Tigers 35 yard line, Wayne Burden recovered a Austin Hays fumble that was caused by Edward Baety at the Cowboys 40 and Cowboys kicker Quinn Sharp missed a 40 yard field goal attempt after SSU stopped Oklahoma State as they drove to the Tigers 29.

OSU (1-0) scored on their next two possessions and took a 49-0 lead into intermission.

Oklahoma State scored on four of their five possessions in the second half.

The Cowboys led 70-0 at the end of the third quarter.

Although the Tigers failed to scored they put together their best drive midway in the third quarter, going from their own 20 to the OSU 31 before being stopped on a fourth and three. The drive went for 48 yards and took 3:35.

Alex Simmons was a spark off the bench for the SSU offense as he ran for 40 yards on nine carries. Antonio Bostick threw a pair of interceptions but completed 12 of 25 passes for 81 yards. Edward Lackey caught five passes for 29 yards and Simon Heyward hauled in three passes for 29 yards. Baety led the defense with nine tackles while Jovante Miller was in on eight tackles.

“There were some proud moments and sometimes you have to take baby steps. We will watch the film, but there were some things we saw that we were proud of. Our kids fought. We wanted to play until there were three zeroes on the clock. I think for the most part we did that. People will look at the score of the game, and I know that quote might be hard to believe. They are pretty good. They will have just as good of a season this year as they had last year,” stated SSU head coach Steve Davenport.

Joseph Randle ran for 107 yards and scored two touchdowns for the Cowboys while Desmond Roland had 104 yards and three touchdowns. Walsh passed for 149 yards and a pair of touchdowns and Wes Lunt threw for 129 yards as he completed all 11 passing attempts. Hays had eight receptions for 77 yards and a touchdown while Nico Ornelas had five tackles for the defense.

As a team, SSU had 139 yards of offense while the Cowboys had 682.

“Our number one goal was not to win either of these games. Our goal is to win the conference championship. We have got another preseason game in Tallahassee next week then our season gets underway. That is where we are,” said Davenport.