Oklahoma State Cowboys football
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
in college football
. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference
and completes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy
, who is in his seventh year as head coach. Oklahoma State plays their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium
in Stillwater, Oklahoma
.
on Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Lewis Field was built in 1913 but had no permanent seating until 1920. At that time the field was repositioned from north-south to an east-west configuration to avoid the strong prevailing winds of northern Oklahoma. To this day Boone Pickens Stadium is one of a very few major college football stadiums with an east-west configuration. The first addition came in 1924 with the concrete and steel portion of the stadium and by 1930 the capacity had risen to 13,000. By 1947 with addition of rows on the south side the capacity grew to over 30,000. In 1971 with a donation of over 2.5 million from T. Boone Pickens the stadium again was expanded and at that time held 50,440. Starting in 2003 Boone Pickens donated over 200 million dollars to the university to renovate the stadium yet again.
, the Southwest Conference. In 1925
, the Oklahoma A&M program joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1928
, the MVIAA split into the Big Six Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference
. A&M was the only large school that joined the smaller MVC. In 1956, A&M announced it was joining (or rejoining, depending on one's view) what had become the Big Seven for the 1958–59 academic year. As part of a transition period, the Cowboys went independent for two years. On May 15, 1957, Oklahoma A&M changed its name to Oklahoma State University. They officially became a part of the renamed Big Eight Conference
in 1958. In 1996
, OSU joined with the other Big Eight schools and four schools from the old Southwest Conference to form the Big 12 Conference
.
The current head coach is Mike Gundy
(37–27 and 2–2 in bowl appearances). During Gundy's playing career, the Cowboys enjoyed their greatest success, including two of the only three 10-win seasons in school history. Also during this era, in 1988, in what has been called the greatest season in college football history, Barry Sanders
led the nation by averaging 7.6 yards per carry and over 200 yards per game, including rushing for over 300 yards in four games. He set college football season records with 2,628 yards rushing, 3,249 total yards, 234 points, 39 touchdowns, of which 37 were rushing (also a record), five consecutive 200 yard games, scored at least two touchdowns in eleven consecutive games, and 9 times he scored at least three touchdowns. Sanders won the Heisman Trophy
as the season's best player.
This success came at a price, however. Only days after the end of the school's second straight 10-win season, OSU and the NCAA released the results of an unusual joint investigation. The report detailed a staggering litany of misconduct dating to before the Johnson era, principally involvement in a "bidding war" for high school phenom Hart Lee Dykes
. The Cowboys were slapped with four years' probation, a three-year bowl ban and a two-year ban from live television. However, the most serious long-term sanction was a limit of 20 scholarships from 1989 to 1992. As a result of the sanctions, the Cowboys only had one winning season from 1989 to 2001.
The OSU football program is in the process of establishing itself as a major college football contender, participating in 18 bowl games overall and five in the last six years. There have been 32 All-Americans to play for the Cowboys, with many coming from ranks of running backs. The Cowboys have won nine conference championships and the team has had one Heisman Trophy
winner and two members go onto the NFL Hall of Fame.
resigned and a search produced Les Miles and Mike Gundy as the finalists. Miles was hired as head coach and Gundy was brought aboard as offensive coordinator. In his first year, Miles would achieve a 4–7 record. In the regular season finale, his underdog Cowboys would defeat the reigning National Champion Oklahoma Sooners in Norman 16–13. In 2002, Miles would post a 7–5 regular season record. The Cowboys would again defeat the Oklahoma Sooners. The team would go on to three straight bowl games in Miles's last three years as head coach and when Miles left in 2004 to take the LSU job.
. In 2007, the Cowboys again posted a 6–6 regular season record and a bowl win over the Indiana Hoosiers in the Insight Bowl
. After their second straight bowl appearance, Gundy was rewarded with a contract extension through the 2013 season.
After posting a 9–3 regular season record in 2008, Coach Gundy received a new seven-year contract worth $15.7 million. The contract, which extends through the 2015 season, was taken into effect on January 1, 2009. Gundy's tenure as head coach of the Cowboys has seen the rise and expansion of not only his football program, but the football facilities as well. The Cowboys began the 2009 season ranked #9 in the country in the AP Top 25, but the dreams of a miracle season were crushed when the Pokes lost 45-35 to the unranked Houston Cougars
at home the following week, and later finding out that star wide receiver Dez Bryant was ruled ineligible for the remainder of the season, for lying to the NCAA about having contact with 8-time pro bowler Deion Sanders
, which wasn't an NCAA violation in the first place. The following year, Oklahoma State hired Offensive Coordinator Dana Holgorsen
from the University of Houston
. In 2010 coach Gundy recorded the first ever 11-win season in Oklahoma State history. What was supposed to be a rebuilding year turned into the best in school history.
Under Gundy there have been a series of NFL quality wide receivers to come through Boone Pickens Stadium
. These include Adarius Bowman
, Dez Bryant
, and Justin Blackmon
.
Author Steve Budin, whose father was a New York bookie, has recently publicized the claim that the 1954 "Bedlam" game
against rival OU
was fixed by mobsters in his book Bets, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (ISBN 1-60239-099-1). Allegedly, the mobsters threatened and paid off a cook to slip laxatives into a soup eaten by many OU Sooner starting players, causing them to fall violently ill in the days leading up to the game. OU was victorious in the end, but their 14–0 win did not cover the 20-point spread they had in their favor. However, many people involved in the 1954 contest do not recall any incident like the one purported by Budin to have occurred. The University of Oklahoma leads the Bedlam Series in football 82–16–7.
is 3-9 versus Oklahoma State with the Cowboys scoring at least 36 points in each of the last four contests. The Cowboys have a twenty game home winning streak against Tulsa. The last time Tulsa won in Stillwater
was 1951.
523–522–40 TOTAL
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. OSU was founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act...
in college football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...
and completes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy is an American football coach and former player He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football Oklahoma State, where he was the Cowboys quarterback from 1986 to 1989. Gundy became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005...
, who is in his seventh year as head coach. Oklahoma State plays their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1913, and as a complete stadium since 1920...
in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
.
Facilities
Oklahoma state plays in Boone Pickens StadiumBoone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1913, and as a complete stadium since 1920...
on Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Lewis Field was built in 1913 but had no permanent seating until 1920. At that time the field was repositioned from north-south to an east-west configuration to avoid the strong prevailing winds of northern Oklahoma. To this day Boone Pickens Stadium is one of a very few major college football stadiums with an east-west configuration. The first addition came in 1924 with the concrete and steel portion of the stadium and by 1930 the capacity had risen to 13,000. By 1947 with addition of rows on the south side the capacity grew to over 30,000. In 1971 with a donation of over 2.5 million from T. Boone Pickens the stadium again was expanded and at that time held 50,440. Starting in 2003 Boone Pickens donated over 200 million dollars to the university to renovate the stadium yet again.
Current coaching staff
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Mike Gundy Mike Gundy Mike Gundy is an American football coach and former player He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football Oklahoma State, where he was the Cowboys quarterback from 1986 to 1989. Gundy became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005... |
Head Coach |
| Joe DeForest | Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator |
| Todd Monken | Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach |
| Bill Young | Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line Coach |
| Jemal Singelton | Running Backs Coach |
| Jason Jones | Cornerbacks Coach |
| Kasey Dunn | Outside Receivers Coach |
| Doug Meacham | Inside Receivers Coach |
| Glenn Spencer | Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Coach |
| Joe Wickline | Offensive Line Coach |
History
The Oklahoma A&M Aggies (also referred to as the Tigers) joined their first conference for the start of the 1915 season1915 college football season
The 1915 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Cornell, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh as national champions. Only Pittsburgh and Cornell claim national championships for the 1915 season.-Conference standings:The following is an...
, the Southwest Conference. In 1925
1925 college football season
The 1925 college football season ended with the University of Alabama's recognition as a football powerhouse. The Rose Bowl was closer to a national championship than had been seen previously, providing an intersectional matchup between two unbeaten teams, the Washington Huskies and the Alabama...
, the Oklahoma A&M program joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1928
1928 college football season
The 1928 college football season had the USC Trojans recognized as champions under the Dickinson System, but the Rose Bowl was contested between the #2 and #3 teams, California and Georgia Tech...
, the MVIAA split into the Big Six Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States...
. A&M was the only large school that joined the smaller MVC. In 1956, A&M announced it was joining (or rejoining, depending on one's view) what had become the Big Seven for the 1958–59 academic year. As part of a transition period, the Cowboys went independent for two years. On May 15, 1957, Oklahoma A&M changed its name to Oklahoma State University. They officially became a part of the renamed Big Eight Conference
Big Eight Conference
The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...
in 1958. In 1996
1996 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped....
, OSU joined with the other Big Eight schools and four schools from the old Southwest Conference to form the Big 12 Conference
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...
.
The current head coach is Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy is an American football coach and former player He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football Oklahoma State, where he was the Cowboys quarterback from 1986 to 1989. Gundy became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005...
(37–27 and 2–2 in bowl appearances). During Gundy's playing career, the Cowboys enjoyed their greatest success, including two of the only three 10-win seasons in school history. Also during this era, in 1988, in what has been called the greatest season in college football history, Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
led the nation by averaging 7.6 yards per carry and over 200 yards per game, including rushing for over 300 yards in four games. He set college football season records with 2,628 yards rushing, 3,249 total yards, 234 points, 39 touchdowns, of which 37 were rushing (also a record), five consecutive 200 yard games, scored at least two touchdowns in eleven consecutive games, and 9 times he scored at least three touchdowns. Sanders won the Heisman Trophy
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
as the season's best player.
Hart Lee Dykes
Hart Lee Dykes is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for two seasons for the New England Patriots. He was awarded the Dial Award as the national high school scholar-athlete of the year in 1984...
. The Cowboys were slapped with four years' probation, a three-year bowl ban and a two-year ban from live television. However, the most serious long-term sanction was a limit of 20 scholarships from 1989 to 1992. As a result of the sanctions, the Cowboys only had one winning season from 1989 to 2001.
The OSU football program is in the process of establishing itself as a major college football contender, participating in 18 bowl games overall and five in the last six years. There have been 32 All-Americans to play for the Cowboys, with many coming from ranks of running backs. The Cowboys have won nine conference championships and the team has had one Heisman Trophy
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
winner and two members go onto the NFL Hall of Fame.
Les Miles era (2001–2004)
In 2001, the Oklahoma State job became vacant when Bob SimmonsBob Simmons (football coach)
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resigned and a search produced Les Miles and Mike Gundy as the finalists. Miles was hired as head coach and Gundy was brought aboard as offensive coordinator. In his first year, Miles would achieve a 4–7 record. In the regular season finale, his underdog Cowboys would defeat the reigning National Champion Oklahoma Sooners in Norman 16–13. In 2002, Miles would post a 7–5 regular season record. The Cowboys would again defeat the Oklahoma Sooners. The team would go on to three straight bowl games in Miles's last three years as head coach and when Miles left in 2004 to take the LSU job.
Mike Gundy era (2005–present)
Mike Gundy was named immediately as Miles' successor and the 22nd head coach at Oklahoma State. His first season saw the expulsion of eleven players from the team and the Cowboys struggled to a 4–7 record winning only one Big 12 conference game. In his second season, the Cowboy offense began to click and the Cowboys would finish 7–6 including a victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Independence BowlIndependence Bowl
The Independence Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, so named because it was inaugurated in the United States bicentennial year, 1976....
. In 2007, the Cowboys again posted a 6–6 regular season record and a bowl win over the Indiana Hoosiers in the Insight Bowl
Insight Bowl
The Insight Bowl is an NCAA college football bowl game played in Arizona since 1989. From 1989 to 1999, the games were played at Arizona Stadium in Tucson. The game moved to Phoenix in 2000 and was played at Chase Field until 2005. After the 2005 playing the Insight Bowl moved to Sun Devil Stadium...
. After their second straight bowl appearance, Gundy was rewarded with a contract extension through the 2013 season.
After posting a 9–3 regular season record in 2008, Coach Gundy received a new seven-year contract worth $15.7 million. The contract, which extends through the 2015 season, was taken into effect on January 1, 2009. Gundy's tenure as head coach of the Cowboys has seen the rise and expansion of not only his football program, but the football facilities as well. The Cowboys began the 2009 season ranked #9 in the country in the AP Top 25, but the dreams of a miracle season were crushed when the Pokes lost 45-35 to the unranked Houston Cougars
Houston Cougars football
The Houston Cougars football program is an NCAA Division I FBS football team that represents the University of Houston. The team is commonly referred to as "Houston" or "UH" . The UH football program is currently a member of the Conference USA intercollegiate athletic conference, and is coached by...
at home the following week, and later finding out that star wide receiver Dez Bryant was ruled ineligible for the remainder of the season, for lying to the NCAA about having contact with 8-time pro bowler Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders
Deion Luwynn Sanders , nicknamed "Prime Time" and "Neon Deion", is a former National Football League cornerback and Major League Baseball outfielder who currently works as an NFL Network analyst...
, which wasn't an NCAA violation in the first place. The following year, Oklahoma State hired Offensive Coordinator Dana Holgorsen
Dana Holgorsen
Dana Holgorsen is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at West Virginia University, having succeeded Bill Stewart, who resigned under pressure on June 10, 2011...
from the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
. In 2010 coach Gundy recorded the first ever 11-win season in Oklahoma State history. What was supposed to be a rebuilding year turned into the best in school history.
Under Gundy there have been a series of NFL quality wide receivers to come through Boone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1913, and as a complete stadium since 1920...
. These include Adarius Bowman
Adarius Bowman
Adarius Bowman is an Canadian football wide receiver for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as an undrafted free agent in 2008. Bowman was traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on April 1, 2009...
, Dez Bryant
Dez Bryant
- 2010 - Rookie Season :Bryant was signed by the Cowboys to a contract very similar to that of Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin on July 22, 2010. On July 23, 2010, it was announced that Bryant will wear number 88, the same as Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, and Cowboys legend Drew Pearson...
, and Justin Blackmon
Justin Blackmon
Justin Blackmon is an American football wide receiver. He currently attends Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in his junior season. He is considered one of the best wide receivers of his class....
.
Logos and uniforms
The Cowboys had four main uniform combinations that they wore throughout the football season for the past few seasons. For the 2011 football season, it was revealed that Nike had created new uniforms for the Cowboys. They now have three different helmet options in either gray, black, or white. Their jerseys and pants consists of black, orange, grey and white, with a different combination being able to be worn every week of the season. The Cowboys debuted their new gray uniforms for the first game of the season.2011 Season
Many combinations of the all new Nike uniforms have been worn this season. Kicking things off against Louisiana the Cowboys showed up in white-grey-white. While hosting Arizona we saw white-black-black, only to see white-white-black at Tulsa. At Texas A&M they donned grey-white-grey; against Kansas, black-black-orange; at Texas, black-white-black; and against Missouri, white-white-white. In years past, homecoming signaled an all orange occasion, but this season the Cowboys faced Baylor in grey-orange-grey.Oklahoma
The first Bedlam game was held at Island Park in Guthrie, Oklahoma. It was a cold, and very windy day with the temperatures well below the freezing mark. At one moment in the game when the Oklahoma A&M Aggies were punting, the wind carried the ball backwards behind the kicker. If the Oklahoma A&M squad recovered the ball it would be a touchback and if the University of Oklahoma squad recovered it, it would be a touchdown. The ball kept going backwards and rolled down a hill into the half-frozen creek. Since a touchdown was at stake, members of both teams dove into the icy waters to recover the ball. A member of the OU team came out with the ball and downed it for a touchdown, eventually winning the game 75–0.[2] Thus was the beginning of Bedlam.Author Steve Budin, whose father was a New York bookie, has recently publicized the claim that the 1954 "Bedlam" game
Bedlam Series
The Bedlam Series refers to the athletics rivalry between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys, of the Big 12 Conference...
against rival OU
Oklahoma Sooners football
The Oklahoma Sooners football program is a college football team that represents the University of Oklahoma . The team is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
was fixed by mobsters in his book Bets, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (ISBN 1-60239-099-1). Allegedly, the mobsters threatened and paid off a cook to slip laxatives into a soup eaten by many OU Sooner starting players, causing them to fall violently ill in the days leading up to the game. OU was victorious in the end, but their 14–0 win did not cover the 20-point spread they had in their favor. However, many people involved in the 1954 contest do not recall any incident like the one purported by Budin to have occurred. The University of Oklahoma leads the Bedlam Series in football 82–16–7.
Tulsa
All time series, Oklahoma State leading 40–27-5, winning the most recent match up in 2011, 59-33. Since 1990 TulsaTulsa Golden Hurricane football
The University of Tulsa's Golden Hurricane football team represents Tulsa in Conference USA. Tulsa is currently coached by first-year head coach Bill Blankenship. The football team was coached by Todd Graham until he accepted the head coaching job at Pittsburgh....
is 3-9 versus Oklahoma State with the Cowboys scoring at least 36 points in each of the last four contests. The Cowboys have a twenty game home winning streak against Tulsa. The last time Tulsa won in Stillwater
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
was 1951.
Conference (seasons as member)
- Independent (1901–1914)
- Southwest Conference (1915–1924)
- MVIAA (1925–1927)
- Missouri Valley Conference (1928–1956)
- Independent (1957–1959)
- Big Eight Conference (1960–1996)
- Big 12 Conference (1997–Present)
Individual honors
- Heisman TrophyHeisman TrophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
- Barry SandersBarry SandersBarry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
, 1988
- Maxwell AwardMaxwell AwardThe Maxwell Award is presented annually to the collegiate American football player judged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best football player in the United States. The...
- Barry SandersBarry SandersBarry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
, 1988
- Walter Camp AwardWalter Camp AwardThe Walter Camp Player of the Year Award is given annually to the collegiate American football Player of the Year, as decided by a group of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A head coaches and sports information directors under the auspices of the Walter Camp Football Foundation;...
- Barry SandersBarry SandersBarry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
, 1988
- Ray Guy AwardRay Guy AwardThe Ray Guy Award is presented annually to college football's top punter by the Greater Augusta Sports Council. The award is named after punter Ray Guy, a former All-American at Southern Mississippi and an all-pro player for the Oakland Raiders.-Criteria:...
- Matt FodgeMatt FodgeMatt Fodge is an American football punter who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Oklahoma State.-College career:...
, 2008
- Fred Biletnikoff AwardFred Biletnikoff AwardThe Fred Biletnikoff Award has been presented since 1994 to America's top college football receiver by the TQC Foundation, Inc. , an independent not-for-profit organization which created the award in 1994 and has sponsored it since...
- Justin BlackmonJustin BlackmonJustin Blackmon is an American football wide receiver. He currently attends Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in his junior season. He is considered one of the best wide receivers of his class....
, 2010
- Lou Groza AwardLou Groza AwardThe Lou Groza Award is presented annually to the top college football placekicker in the United States by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. The award is named after former Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns player Lou Groza.-Winners:...
- Dan BaileyDan Bailey (American football)Dan "Beetle" Bailey is an American football placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was signed by the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2011...
, 2010
Year by year records (win, loss, tie, conference record in parentheses)
- 1950– 4–6–1
- 1951– 3–7
- 1952– 3–7
- 1953– 7–3
- 1954– 5–4–1
- 1955– 2–8
- 1956– 3–5–2
- 1957– 6–3–1
- 1958– 8–3 — Bluegrass BowlBluegrass BowlBluegrass Bowl was played only once, on 13 December 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky. Oklahoma State University defeated Florida State University 15-6.-Background of the Bluegrass Bowl:...
vs. Florida State 15–6 (W) - 1959– 6–4
- 1960– 3–7 (2–5)
- 1961– 4–6 (2–5)
- 1962– 4–6 (2–5)
- 1963– 1–8 (0–6)
- 1964– 4–6 (3–4)
- 1965– 3–7 (2–5)
- 1966– 4–5–1 (4–2–1)
- 1967– 4–5–1 (3–4)
- 1968– 3–7 (2–5)
- 1969– 5–5 (3–4)
- 1970– 4–7 (2–5)
- 1971– 4–6–1 (2–5)
- 1972– 6–5 (4–3)
- 1973– 5–4–2 (2–3–2)
- 1974– 7–5 (4–3) — Fiesta BowlFiesta BowlThe Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Frito-Lay and named with their Tostitos brand, is a United States college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Between its origination in 1971 and 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil...
vs. BYU 16–6 (W) - 1975– 7–4 (3–4)
- 1976– 9–3 (5–2) — Tangerine BowlCapital One BowlThe Capital One Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Orlando, Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the Tangerine Bowl and the Florida Citrus Bowl...
vs. BYU 49–21 (W) - 1977– 4–7 (2–5)
- 1978– 3–8 (3–4)
- 1979– 7–4 (5–2)
- 1980– 4–7 (3–4)
- 1981– 6–6 (3–4) — Independence BowlIndependence BowlThe Independence Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, so named because it was inaugurated in the United States bicentennial year, 1976....
vs. Texas A&M 16–33 (L) - 1982– 4–5–2 (3–2–2)
- 1983– 8–4 (3–4) — Bluebonnet BowlBluebonnet BowlThe Bluebonnet Bowl was an annual college football bowl game played in Houston, Texas. A civic group was appointed by the Houston Chamber of Commerce Athletics Committee in 1959 to organize the bowl game. It was held at Rice Stadium from 1959 through 1967, and again in 1985 and 1986. The game was...
vs. Baylor 24–14 (W) - 1984– 10–2 (5–2) — Gator BowlGator BowlThe Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Held continuously since 1946, it is the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally...
vs. South Carolina 21–14 (W) - 1985– 8–4 (4–3) — Gator BowlGator BowlThe Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Held continuously since 1946, it is the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally...
vs. Florida State 23–34 (L) - 1986– 6–5 (4–3)
- 1987– 10–2 (5–2) — Sun BowlSun BowlThe Sun Bowl is an annual U.S. college football bowl game that is usually played at the end of December in El Paso, Texas. The Sun Bowl, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl are the second-oldest bowl games in the country, behind the Rose Bowl...
vs. West Virginia 35–33 (W) - 1988– 10–2 (5–2) — Holiday BowlHoliday BowlThe Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. Beginning with the 2010 playing the bowl will officially be known as the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl after...
vs. Wyoming 62–14 (W) - 1989– 4–7 (3–4)
- 1990– 4–7 (2–5)
- 1991– 0–10–1 (0–6–1)
- 1992– 4–6–1 (2–4–1)
- 1993– 3–8 (0–7)
- 1994– 3–7–1 (0–6–1)
- 1995– 4–8 (2–5)
- 1996– 5–6 (2–6)
- 1997– 8–4 (5–3) — Alamo BowlAlamo BowlThe Alamo Bowl is a major American college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It matches the second choice team from the Pacific-12 Conference and the third choice team from the Big 12 Conference.Traditionally, the Alamo Bowl has been...
vs. Purdue 20–33 (L) - 1998– 5–6 (3–5)
- 1999– 5–6 (3–5)
- 2000– 3–8 (1–7)
- 20012001 Oklahoma State Cowboys football seasonThe 2001 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented the Oklahoma State University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Les Miles was in his first season at Oklahoma State as head coach. In the three years prior to Miles's arrival in Stillwater, the Cowboys finished 5–6,...
– 4–7 (2–6) - 2002– 8–5 (5–3) — Houston BowlHouston BowlThe Houston Bowl is a now-defunct NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that was played annually in Houston, Texas from 2000 to 2005. The game was originally known as the galleryfurniture.com Bowl in 2000 and 2001...
vs. Southern Miss 33–23 (W) - 2003– 9–4 (5–3) — Cotton Bowl Classic vs. Ole Miss 28–31 (L)
- 2004– 7–5 (4–4) — Alamo BowlAlamo BowlThe Alamo Bowl is a major American college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It matches the second choice team from the Pacific-12 Conference and the third choice team from the Big 12 Conference.Traditionally, the Alamo Bowl has been...
vs. Ohio State 7–33 (L) - 2005– 4–7 (1–7)
- 2006– 7–6 (3–5) — Independence BowlIndependence BowlThe Independence Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, so named because it was inaugurated in the United States bicentennial year, 1976....
vs. Alabama 34–31 (W) - 2007– 7–6 (4–4) — Insight Bowl2007 Insight BowlThe 2007 Insight Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season, was played on December 31, 2007, at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Arizona....
vs. Indiana 49–33 (W) - 20082008 Oklahoma State Cowboys football teamThe 2008 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represents Oklahoma State University for the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision intercollegiate football season of 2008-2009.-Schedule:Source:-Washington State:-Houston:...
– 9–4 (5–3) — Holiday BowlHoliday BowlThe Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. Beginning with the 2010 playing the bowl will officially be known as the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl after...
vs. Oregon 31–42 (L) - 20092009 Oklahoma State Cowboys football teamThe 2009 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Cowboys, led by 5th year head coach Mike Gundy, played their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium...
– 9–4 (6–2) — Cotton Bowl Classic2010 Cotton Bowl ClassicThe 2010 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys, representing Oklahoma State University, from the Big 12 Conference and the Ole Miss Rebels, representing the University of Mississippi, from the Southeastern Conference that took...
vs. Ole Miss 21–7 (L) - 20102010 Oklahoma State Cowboys football teamThe 2010 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by 6th year head coach Mike Gundy and played their homes game at Boone Pickens Stadium. They played in the Big 12 Conference in the South Division...
– 11–2 (6–2) — Alamo Bowl2010 Alamo Bowl (December)The 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl game was the 18th edition of the annual college football bowl game known previously as the Alamo Bowl. It was played on December 29, 2010 between the Arizona Wildcats and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. ESPN television broadcasted the game with Valero as the title sponsor...
vs. Arizona 36–10 (W) - 20112011 Oklahoma State Cowboys football teamThe 2011 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represents Oklahoma State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys will be led by seventh year head coach Mike Gundy and will play their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium...
– 10-1 (7-1)
523–522–40 TOTAL
Final rankings
Season | Record | (Conf) | AP Rank | Coaches Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1945 | 9-0-0 | (1-0-0) | 5 | N/A |
1958 | 8-3-0 | N/A | 19 | N/A |
1976 | 9-3-0 | (5-2-0) | 14 | 14 |
1983 | 8-4-0 | (5-2-0) | N/A | 18 |
1984 | 10-2-0 | (5-2-0) | 7 | 5 |
1987 | 10-2-0 | (5-2-0) | 11 | 12 |
1988 | 10-2-0 | (5-2-0) | 11 | 11 |
1997 | 8-4 | (5-3) | 24 | 24 |
2008 | 9-4 | (5-3) | 16 | 18 |
2009 | 9-4 | (6-2) | N/A | 25 |
2010 | 11-2 | (6-2) | 13 | 10 |