Well, we had to play Ervin when Stokes was out. That alone is enough to partially validate this Brucecuse.
not really disagreeing with you, i know stokes is better than ervin. but with stokes we bet OSU and TTU at home.
without stokes we beat TCU twice and OU at home.
we didn't have some drastic change in performance strictly in terms of W/L between him being healthy and injured.