Football
Ranking the most heartbreaking losses of the Gundy Era
All of these were bad but 2013 Bedlam is near the top.
The good news is that we haven’t had too many of these in the Mike Gundy Era. The bad news is that the ones we’ve had have been at a “SportsCenter-My-Wish-segment” level of heartbreak. Here they are, ranked.
1. Iowa State (2011), 37-31 — It will never be topped. I don’t know how it could be. I guess maybe if OSU was up 55-0 on a 1-10 OU team and a win would send us to the national title and somehow Sam Bradford’s son (a 120-pound third stringer) threw 11 TDs in the second half of the 2030 Bedlam game. But other than that, nothing.
2. Bedlam (2013), 33-24 — Like I said after the game, I’m thankful now for the WVU loss. Very thankful. Because Blake Bell going 70 yards in a buck thirty to end our title dreams after smoking Baylor might have been too much for me to take for the second time in three years.
3. Bedlam (2010), 47-41 — The first time OU killed off our Big 12 title dreams. Also one of the elite crowds of the Gundy Era. I almost didn’t survive the Gilbert kick return.
4. Houston (2009), 45-35 — This one was spectacularly crushing. Kevin Sumlin + Dana Holgorsen = not good times for OSU coming off the monstrous win against Georgia in the opener. Silver lining: My favorite Dez punt return ever happened this game.
5. Bedlam (2012), 51-48 (OT) — Maybe I’ve just been sucked in the last two years but I truly thought we were going to win both. Very dissimilar from the first 27 Bedlams of my life.
6. Texas (2007), 38-35 — The Colt McCoy game. Probably the all-time choke job by a Mike Gundy team. Strangely, though, it wasn’t even the worst choke job by an Oklahoma State team against Texas within a five-year span (2004).
7. A&M (2006), 34-33 — The missed extra point. I went to look at that box score, all it says is “Bowman 15-yard pass from Robinson (kick failed).”
8. Bedlam (2008), 61-41 — This wasn’t a game we thought OSU was going to win going in but when it was 44-41 late in the fourth you started to get a little of that 2001-02 hope creeping in. It was subsequently, and violently, crushed.
9. Texas (2012), 41-36 — This one was bad just because of the way it happened, with the “fumble” at the end. Certainly not the worst loss OSU has ever had, but like I said Saturday, when you’re a 9-3 or 10-2 team year in and year out, the losses sure do hurt a lot more.
10. Nebraska (2010), 51-41 — This one zapped our “wait, Brandon Weeden is REALLY good and we’re 6-0 and we could win the Big 12 and…” dreams. It’s in the “how does [guy on team OSU plays who isn’t actually that good] have the game of his career against us” pantheon. T-Magic threw for 10 TDs that year, five that day against OSU.
Honorable mention: WVU (2013), 30-21, Texas (2008), 28-24, Troy (2007), 41-23, A&M (2005), 62-23.
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