In a game that was dominated by Arkansas, 16th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys needed double overtime to pull out a, 39-31, come from behind win against the Razorbacks, Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.

A crowd of 52,202 watched Ollie Gordon II carry the ball into the end zone from 12 yards out, followed by his catch of a two-point conversion, in the second overtime to secure the win.

OSU (2-0) had a difficult time getting their ground game going, as Gordon was held to only 49 yards on 17 carries. As a team, OSU only tallied 59 rushing yards. The Razorbacks (1-1) outgained the Cowboys, 648 to 385 total yards on offense.

“The only thing I can say statistically was we won the turnover margin and won the penalties, and then we were really good in overtime on both sides of the ball,” said OSU head coach Mike Gundy after the game.

The Razorbacks jumped out to an early lead scoring a pair of touchdowns in the first quarter, and then led 21-7 at halftime.

“We wasted the first half,” Gundy said. “Their coaches had better concepts and schemes than our coaches did. Our players got out of position, but for the most part, I thought, through the first quarter and a half, they had better concepts, did a better job of scheming than we did.”

Gundy said his coaches made good adjustments at halftime to get the Cowboys back in the game.

“At halftime, our coaches were fantastic with the adjustments we made,” Gundy said. “Players were really good about absorbing information, not panicking, not pointing fingers, taking it back out on the field and executing it and playing much better. We had like eight yards in the first quarter or something, so we started really slow, but I think they outcoached us in the first half.”

In the third quarter, OSU’s Logan Ward kicked a pair of field goals from 45 and 35 yards, to cut the Razorbacks’ lead to 21-13.

Then the Cowboys took the lead early in the fourth quarter with a couple of touchdowns by Brennan Presley, and the score was 28-21, with 5:13 remaining.

Arkansas answered quickly with a 43-yard touchdown pass from Taylen Green to tight end Luke Hasz, and Arkansas tied the game with 4:01 remaining.

Ward hit another field goal, this time from 38 yards with 55 seconds remaining to put Oklahoma State ahead 31-28. Arkansas, with no time outs, drove 48 yards in eight plays, and Kyle Ramsey’s 44-yard field goal as time expired forced overtime.

In the first overtime, Ward missed a 41-yard field goal attempt, and Ramsey missed one from 46 yards. Ramsey had three missed field goals in the game.

Oklahoma State scored first in the second overtime, with Gordon’s touchdown run, then the Cowboys stopped the Razorbacks on a fourth-and-short to end the game.

Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman said that although his team was well prepared and played well for the most part, mistakes in the second half is what cost the Razorbacks the game.

“Congratulations to Oklahoma State, they found a way to win,” Pittman said. “We saw last year with BYU; BYU made a nice run on them in a half and in the third quarter and lost late. Obviously, we’re disappointed because the statistics were way in our favor. I thought our defense played three quarters of great football. They wore out a little bit offensively, we made too many mistakes, put the ball on the ground and threw a pick-six. Then we went through a spell there in the third quarter where we were moving the football, but the snap was either low or we couldn’t catch it, two or three times there that really stopped drives.

“We had a chance to go up 11, unfortunately we weren’t able to make the field goal. But Oklahoma State came back, and they beat us. We’ve got to take care of the ball. I liked the intensity that we played with. It came down to that we turned the ball over too many times, and we got beat. Congratulations to them. We’ve got a good football team, we’ve just got to correct these mistakes moving forward.”

Bowman finished the game with 27-of-48 passes completed, with one interception. He threw one touchdown pass and totaled 326 yards. Presley had 91 yards receiving, caught a touchdown pass and ran for a score for the Cowboys.

Green completed 26-of-45 passes for 416 yards, one interception and one touchdown for Arkansas. The Razorbacks’ Ja’Quinden Jackson ran for a career-high 149 yards and three touchdowns and Andrew Armstrong had 10 receptions for 164 yards.

OSU will play the University of Tulsa this Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at H.A. Chapman Stadium. Arkansas will host UAB on Saturday at 3:15 p.m.