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Roundtable: What Is The Most Important Of Mike Gundy’s 99 Wins

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Here at Pistols Firing, we use Slack to communicate back and forth. Sometimes this is constructive. Other times we riff for 20 minutes on Mike Gundy’s golf game

It’s going to be pretty slangy and GIF-y and not meant to be anything serious. We’re just here to talk about OSU the way we all do in real life. If you need to brush up on any of the contributors, you can do so here.

Mark Cooper put out a fascinating poll question this week that got a lot of feedback so we thought we would weigh in on the matter as well. Mike Gundy is on the verge of win No. 100. Which if his first 99 was the most important?

Kyle Porter (Publisher): Q1 for the roundtable — what is the most important win in OSU history? Heated debate in OSU circles this week.

Thomas Fleming (Xs and Os): Ooh that’s a toughie. Personally, I guess the Fiesta Bowl? First and only BCS (or now New Years Six) bowl win in school history. But keep in mind I say that only because I haven’t been alive for a long time.

Kyle Boone (Head of Recruiting): I think the most important was Bedlam 2014. Maybe because it’s the most recent in my memory bank, but going thru 2014 with the Hack-A-Daxx was brutal, and that win took a lot of pressure off Mike Gundy and was a collective exhale from the fan base in general. Especially the way they won it.

Kyle Cox (Staff Writer): I am torn between the Bedlam 2014 and the Missouri game in 2008. I was in Norman for 2014 and with everything leading up to that: the losing streak, Rudolph and the trajectory it set the program on, I think I’ll go with Bedlam.

Carson Cunningham (Podcasts): For me it’s not even an argument. The debate should be for second place. 2011 Bedlam not only won the school’s only Big 12 championship but also it got the Bedlam monkey off of Mike Gundy’s back. There is no Fiesta Bowl without that win.

Sam Aldrich (Head of Hoops): Interesting answers, because my first thought was Bedlam 2011. Gundy’s first win against Oklahoma (as a player or coach), it clinched our first Big 12 title, staked our claim for the Nat. Title. Of course, it didn’t turn out that way and Bama was picked, but my answer is Bedlam 2011. Dang, beat me @carsoncunningham.

Justin Southwell (Chief Uniform Officer): If we don’t win Bedlam at OU in 2014, we miss a bowl game for the first time since 2005. But the 2011 Bedlam win is bigger in my mind because it gave us the opportunity to play in the Fiesta Bowl.

Cox: I don’t know if he would have been on the hot seat but things were not rosy in Stillwater in 2014… That game was big-time as well.

Southwell:  It kind of seemed like everyone expected OSU to win [in 2011], so maybe it’s not that big in everyone’s mind. OU was ranked in the top 10 and OSU dominated.

Porter: It’s 2008 Missouri for me. That’s the fulcrum upon which the Gundy Era swings for me. On the road in Columbia when they were ranked No. 3 and you were 5-0 but nobody really believed in it. That’s the game that elevated OSU from “cute story with an alum coaching” to big boy program with some swag. If not for that game, I’m not sure 2011 even happens.

Caleb Deck (Intern): I am in total agreement for 2011. Hard to argue against the Big 12 title and such a dominant performance for players and coach. Though I don’t want to speak of anything before mid-2000s as I have little-to-no first-hand experience. (edited)

Cox: I also came out of that ’14 game convinced that Brandon Sheperd was the next great receiver at OSU.

Caleb: Missouri game was definitely crucial and helped elevate and vault OSU above what they were, but I think with the impending new facilities and improving program as a whole, it would have happened eventually. Now that win definitely made it happen much faster, but I still take Big 12 title as what most helped develop OSU to be a national brand in my mind.

Southwell: 2011 happened because of the 2010 loss to OU (most important loss in Gundy era?) – without that maybe Weeden and Blackmon don’t return.

Porter: That’s a great point. What a question — most important loss in the Gundy Era?

Carson: I can’t reiterate enough how impossible a win over OU seemed under Gundy until 2011. 2010 was an all-time gut punch loss. He had Bedlam Harambe on his back.

Aldrich: #RIPHarambe

Porter: Bedlam Harambe!

Southwell: There might be more weight on the 2011 loss to Iowa State, but I’ll stand by my original post

Porter: Yeah, I just think it’s a mindset deal with me for Mizzou. I think that changed the entire mindset of the program. Everybody started believing that they belonged and they soared into the top 10 before falling to Texas. OSU in the top 10 within three and a half years of Gundy taking over. What a world!

Cox: 2014 UT loss was important. (Maybe not No. 1) It was not important because of the loss but because Daxx Garman got sacked into a coma which made Gundy pick between burning Rudolph’s RS or starting Cornelius.

Boone: I’d agree with @southwell — 2010 loss to OU.

Aldrich: Not the most important, but one of the more crushing losses had to be 2013 to OU.

Caleb: Iowa state hurt. Bad. This doesn’t count as most important but 2013 bedlam will forever haunt me. @sam.aldrich beat me to it

Aldrich: I remember that was one of the coldest football games I’ve ever been to. Awful to sit through that and lose the Big 12 title like that #GilbertCaughtIt

Caleb: I was sitting in the corner bowl of student section and will forever believe that was a pick. Deep down I don’t know I’ll ever fully forgive Gundy for not challenging that.

Porter:

Cox: Opening up the archives.

Southwell:  2008 was crazy. The win at Mizzou was huge. Then we lost @ No. 1 Texas, @ No. 2 Texas Tech, and vs No. 3 OU. How the Big 12 has fallen.

Caleb: I don’t want to talk about it because I raved for weeks about this at the time. But there was nothing to lose by challenging that. Ugh.

Boone: Mopping the tears up at work after watching that Gilbert pick again.

Porer: We probably would have blown the V formation anyway.

Southwell: Twitter should delete Vine because of that interception

Carson: It has to be Iowa State. Bedlam 2013 was a sham – they coached not to lose and lost a game they shouldn’t have – but 2011 ISU can’t be topped. Where is Jared Barnett these days? For a night he was Cam Newton.

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Porter: See: Martinez, Taylor

Porter:  What’s the most important play of the Gundy Era?

Boone:

Cox: Wow… most important play… yeah @boonek might have it.

Fleming: I would have to agree

Aldrich:

Carson: *Colton Chelf waves his hands wildly*

Porter: Lolol

Southwell: Hahaha

Boone: He has a case!

Carson: I bet Colton begins every day by staring in the mirror and saying, “I was f—— in!”

Porter: One of the most underrated most important plays (and games) is Broderick Brown picking off Ryan Tannehill in College Station in 2011 for the win. (edited)

Fleming: Oh yeah forgot about that

Fleming: That comeback was incredible. I remember not watching the beginning of the third quarter because I thought it would be a blowout.

Porter: Actually might have been James Thomas. Either way, it was awesome.

Carson:  Brown had a pick (a really good one) but Thomas had that pick and the one to beat K-State I believe.

Porter: OK before we wrap, everybody give your top three wins in order of the Gundy Era.

Cox: 1. Bedlam 2014 2. Missouri 2008 3. Bedlam 2011

Carson: 

1) 2011 Bedlam
2) 2008 Missouri
3) Fiesta Bowl

Aldrich: 1. 2011 Bedlam 2. Fiesta Bowl over Stanford 3. Mizzou 2008

Cox: You guys convinced me of ’11 Bedlam but I’ll stick with my first pick

Boone: 

1. 2014 bedlam
2. 2011 bedlam
3. 2008 mizzou

Southwell:

1. 2011 Bedlam
2. 2011 Fiesta Bowl
3. 2008 Mizzou

No one brought up 2009 Georgia, but that’s up there

Aldrich: Good call on UGA

Southwell: Tainted by the loss to Houston the following week

Carson: A couple under the radar: 2007 @ Nebraska – destroyed them on the road when they were still Nebraska and 2007 vs K-State.

Caleb: 

1. 2011 Bedlam
2. 2011 Fiesta Bowl
3. 2014 Bedlam

Porter:

1. Mizzou 2008
2. Bedlam 2011
3. Fiesta Bowl 2011

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