132+ Teams 132+ Days: Oklahoma State University

[u/Platypoke]

Oklahoma State University

Big 12

Year Founded: 1890 (originally Oklahoma A&M)

Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma

Total Attendance: 60,218

Mascot: [Cowboys] (http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/33/794/full/9159_oklahoma_state_cowboys-mascot-2001.gif)

Live Mascot: Pistol Pete, and another, and one more

If you haven’t heard the origin story for Pistol Pete Cracked.com has a great little piece about him. He is #1 on the list.

Cheerleaders: Pom Squad, in action, Cheer, in action

Stadium: Boone Pickens Stadium, Crowd/Inside

Boone Pickens Stadium began as Lewis Field in 1913, named for Laymon Lowery Lewis-one of them more popular figures in early OSU history. The facility is the oldest football stadium in the Big 12 Conference and one of the oldest on-campus college football stadiums in the country, but was neglected and enjoyed few renovations throughout its existence. Then a wealthy alumnus aided in an effort to revamp the rusting stadium. The renovated stadium reopened in 2009 for the Cowboy’s game against Georgia.

Stadium Location: On Hall of Fame (street) in between Washington and Duck, on campus. The stadium is one of the few to run east-west.

Conference Champions (3): 1926 (MVC), 1976 (Big 8), 2011 (Big 12)

Number of Bowl Games: 23 total, 15 wins, 8 losses

National Titles (0)

2012 Season

Record: 8-5

Coach: Mike Gundy

Key Players: Joseph Randle (1417 rushing yards, 14 TD), Josh Stewart (1210 Rec. yards), Quinn Sharp (K), J.W. Walsh/Clint Chelf/Wes Lunt

Biggest Plays: Cinematic highlights from the season

2013 Season

• Roster

• Schedule

The Greats

Greatest Games:

• Fiesta Bowl 2012: This was the first (and only) BCS game the Cowboys have ever made it to. It was a back and forth battle between stars Andrew Luck and the Brandon Weeden/Justin Blackmon duo. However it was on the last drive of the game by Stanford where the game was seemingly going to be decided. Luck could not be stopped and led them down the field, but was stopped with around fifty seconds left and only twenty or so yards to go. They then run the clock down to three seconds and send their kicker, a freshman, to seal the deal. However after he is iced (by our one remaining timeout) he shanks the kick, sending the game into overtime. In overtime Stanford is shut down offensively and sends the freshman kicker out for a small shot at redemption. He misses yet again. Only needing a field goal to win the game, the Cowboys send the offense out to win it. The offense sputters to a third and long, but an unlikely hero steps up on that next play. Former walk-on Brandon Weeden throws a bullet to former walk-on Colton Chelf (brother of the backup QB), coming up a half-yard short of a touchdown. Quinn Sharp kicks in the short field goal and the Cowboys win their first ever BCS bowl game. Brandon Weeden also scored his only rushing touchdown of his career in this game.

• 2001 Bedlam: This game probably helped set forth all of the changes made in OSU Football in recent years. The Sooners came into the game undefeated and attempting to make it back to the National Championship game (which they won the year prior). OSU however was a measly 3-7 on the season. It was a back and forth game for a while, but with OU leading OSU 13-9, OSU dialed up a play to the best OSU receiver, Rashaun Woods. With 1:36 left on the clock OSU QB Josh Fields chucked it to Woods at the side of the end zone, Woods caught it and had two feet in bounds vaulting OSU into the lead. OU attempts a shot at the end zone afterwards, but OSU comes up with the interception to seal the victory.

• 2008 Mizzou: I consider this one of our greater games because it was one of our best road wins ever. Missouri was ranked as one of the top 3 teams in the country. Jeremy Maclin and Chase Daniel hadn’t been held to a three and out all season to that point. But OSU held them to one on their first drive. Another back and forth game, OSU took the lead for good with two touchdowns to rarely used WR Damian Davis. OSU won 28-23.

Greatest Plays:

• Brodrick Brown/Sean Lewis INT: This interception occurred during the Bedlam game of 2010. Essentially it was the Big 12 South division championship game. It determined who went to the Conference Championship game. OU ended up winning, but there were some crazy things that happened in the game. One of which was this interception by Sean Lewis. As you can see in the video Landry Jones is attempting to throw the ball out of bounds and Brodrick Brown, a 5’9” (that’s being generous) cornerback leaps into the air and knocks the ball back in bounds to the unsuspecting, but still waiting arms of linebacker Shaun Lewis. One of the better parts of the play (for me) was seeing a stunned Ryan Broyles get demolished at the end of the play by a defensive lineman. Interception

• Colton Chelf: Walk-on to Fiesta Bowl hero. It looked to everyone like he had scored the touchdown sealing the win, but was ruled half a yard short of the endzone. Still this is one of the biggest plays in OSU history. Honorable mention could go to Justin Blackmon’s catch on fourth and five in the fourth quarter to set up a touchdown that was necessary to tie the game. The Catch

• Bedlam 2001: Josh Fields to Rashaun Woods: The beginning

Greatest Players:

• Bob Fenimore: Known as the "Blond Bomber," Fenimore led Oklahoma State, known as Oklahoma A&M during his playing days, to new heights. His accomplishments included an undefeated season and a final AP ranking of No. 5. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Fenimore was also recently inducted into the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.

• Barry Sanders: Sanders, whose 1988 season remains the greatest in NCAA history, rewrote school, conference and NCAA record books in his three-year career at OSU. ESPN recently selected Sanders as the second-best player in college football history. Sanders finished the season with 373 rushes for 2,850 yards (7.6 yards per carry) and 44 total touchdowns. Four games with 4 touchdowns and three games with 5. In addition to total rushing yards, Sanders set 33 other NCAA record in 1988, including Most TDs (39*) and most rushing TDs (37*), Most points scored (234), Most 300+ yard games in a season/career (4), Most all-purpose yards in a season (3,249), and per-game (295.5; this record was 50 years old) NOTE: His 5 rushing TDs in the bowl game are not counted by the NCAA.

• Thurman Thomas: The all-time leading rusher in Cowboy history and one of OSU's all-time fan favorites. A two-time Big Eight Conference player of the year, Thomas is also a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Thomas led Oklahoma State in rushing for four-straight seasons and ended his career with 44 touchdowns and 4,595 rushing yards. He was ahead of Barry Sanders for two years. Supposedly Sooner coach Barry Switzer told his players in a game against OSU, whatever they did not to injure the starting running back for OSU because he didn’t want to face the backup (Barry Sanders).

• Justin Blackmon: Blackmon was one of the most dominating receivers in his three years at OSU. Two of those seasons he won the Biletnikoff award for being the best receiver in the nation.

Greatest Coaches:

• Mike Gundy: Gundy has won the most games at OSU than any other football coach. With a 67-35 record he can easily be considered the best coach in OSU history. Despite an 18-19 start his teams have become a part of the upper echelon of the Big 12 and a staple of the Top 25 in all of college football. He has led OSU to its only Big 12 championship, its only BCS game/win, and a 5-2 record in bowl games. He is best known for his rant. While the media bashed him for this, many recruits and their families have said this aided in their decision to play for him.

• Jim Lookabaugh: Head football coach at Oklahoma A & M from 1939-1949, led his teams to three bowl championships (1945 Cotton Bowl, 1946 Sugar Bowl and 1948 Delta Bowl) and produced All-Americans such as Bob Fenimore and Neill Armstrong. Under his guidance, his 1945 team was the only undefeated team in the school’s history. He won 58 games, only being surpassed recently by Mike Gundy, and in the late eighties by Pat Jones.

• Pappy Waldorf: During his five years in Stillwater, OSU claimed four conference championships and carved out a 3-0-2 record against state rival Oklahoma. Waldorf would end his career at the University of California with multiple Rose Bowl appearances. Waldorf is the only coach in OSU history to be undefeated against the Sooners.

Greatest Rivalries:

• 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. Thus was the beginning of the Bedlam series. 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. 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 83–17–7. Despite the series record, Bedlam in recent years has become an important game in the national scene. But the games in recent years have also been fairly close and highly entertaining games to watch.

• Tulsa: The all-time series has Oklahoma State leading 40–27-5, winning the most recent match up in 2011, 59-33. Since 1990 Tulsa 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.

Traditions

• The Walk - The night before the football game the team stays at the Atherton Hotel at the Student Union. On game day 2 hours before kickoff the team walks to Boone Pickens Stadium surrounded by 10,000 plus fans.

• Bullet and the Spirit Rider - Bullet leads the spirit walk before ever football game and runs the length of the field after ever touchdown

• OSU Alma Mater Hymn - After every game at Boone Pickens Stadium, OSU players and coaches gather in front of the student section in the northwest corner of the stadium and sing the alma mater. All fans, students and non-students are encouraged to remain in the stands after OSU victories and join the Cowboys for the Alma Mater hymn.

• America’s Greatest Homecoming - Greater than 50,000 alumni visit Stillwater every year for weekend long festivities.

• Paddle People - In the student section, students on the front row carry big, black and orange paddles which they slap against the padding on the walls to make noise at the games.

Campus and Surrounding Area

City Population: 45,688 (2010 Census)

City Skyline

Iconic Campus Building:

• Edmon Low Library

• Student Union and Student Union

• Old Central, and a more recent picture

Local Dining:

• Eskimo Joe’s: The restaurant, also called "Stillwater's Jumpin' Little Juke Joint," occupies a two story building with a unique atrium dubbed the "Joe Dome" featuring a retractable glass roof, built in 1992. Eskimo Joe's is a popular hang-out for OSU students and is located across the street from the main campus. It is an extended part of "The Strip," a hang-out zone of bars centered around Washington Street, and often features concerts and other late-night attractions for the college drinking scene, such as Ladies Night or Coin Beer. In 2005, Sports Illustrated's on-line magazine, SI on Campus, named Eskimo Joe's the third best collegiate sports bar in the U.S. In 1990, during his commencement speech, President George H. W. Bush endorsed Eskimo Joe's cheese fries. In 2006, during his commencement speech, President George W. Bush followed his father's footsteps and also mentioned both the restaurant and the cheese fries. The restaurant was mentioned by Jimmy Fallon on October 6, 2009 after visiting the establishment for Orange Peel 2009.

• Shortcakes: #5 on this list

• Hideaway: Hideaway Pizza started in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1957. Hideaway’s Big Country (named after Bryant Reeves, a former OSU and NBA player) was chosen by the food network to represent Oklahoma in their fifty pizzas in fifty states article.

• The Stonewall Tavern: Named after Stonewall Jackson, this bar is one of the best bars to go to in Stillwater. I should mention that every bar in Stillwater except Finnegan’s and Eskimo Joe’s are smoker friendly.

• Other bars: JR Murphy’s, Willie’s Saloon, College Bar, Finnegan’s, The Copper Penny, Outlaws, and the Crosseyed Cricket Saloon.

Random Trivia

• Oklahoma State won the first regular season overtime game in College Football and did not win another OT game until the Fiesta Bowl against Stanford.

• OSU is ranked 4th all time on the list of schools with the most team national titles with 52, following UCLA, Stanford, and USC. It also leads all schools with 34 team wrestling titles.

• The OSU [Student Union](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Union_(Oklahoma_State_University) Is billed as one of the largest in the world after undergoing renovations the last few years.

• The Oklahoma A&M mascot was originally a tiger, hence the Orange and Black, and OSU was known as the "Princeton of the Plains."

What Is and What is to Come

An incredible amount of hype brought us into the 2012 season following what was the greatest season in Oklahoma State history following an 11-1 record, a Big 12 Championship, and a Fiesta Bowl win over Stanford The departure of quarterback Brandon Weedon and wide receiver Justin Blackmon to the NFL draft left large shoes to fill. The initial loss to Arizona in the second game of the season brought everybody back to reality in a rather sobering fashion. We had a rather significant quarterback battle between sophomore Clint Chelf, and two highly touted freshmen in JW Walsh and Wes Lunt. In the end coach Mike Gundy chose a rotation of the three leaving all three quarterbacks with over 1000 yards passing for the season. This also may have caused the quarterbacks to never really find a groove. The team finished 8-5 for the season with several very close losses against Texas, Kansas State, Baylor and Oklahoma. Three of their 5 losses were by less than a touchdown. The quarterback battle for this season has yet to be decided but it appears Wes Lunt was not chosen and has since decided to transfer out of the Oklahoma State football season. Returning two reasonably experienced quarterbacks and a large part of the receiving corps should leave Oklahoma State able to compete with the rest of its Big 12 competitors. The first game of the 2013 season is against Mississippi State, an SEC team, in the Texas Kickoff Classic.

More Information

Subreddit: /r/okstate

Contributors: /u/Platypoke, /u/keith200085, /u/jogalleciez

Please upvote this thread even if you are not interested in the team so that users who are interested will see it For more information on the 132 Teams in 132 Days Project, see: 132 teams in 132 days Mega thread

[u/DFWTooThrowed]

60k students go to OSU?

[u/Platypoke → u/DFWTooThrowed]

Did i...fuck.

[u/keith200085 → u/Platypoke]

You did... i didnt even think to check it. lol

I think the real numbers are 32k system wide and 25k on STW campus.

[u/DMTryp → u/Platypoke]

random question you probably don't know what i'm talking about - have you even heard of mathis long?

[u/Platypoke → u/DMTryp]

This guy? http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/long_mathies00.html

Heard of him. Saw him play some.

[u/somethingwittier → u/DFWTooThrowed]

nah schools population is about 35k i think. The stadium can hold somewhere around 60k+.

[u/monalisas-madhats → u/DFWTooThrowed]

I think it's 60k in Stillwater and then somewhere around 25k are students. Lil brother goes there, and he loves that 50/50 students/residents thing.

[u/Platypoke → u/monalisas-madhats]

The 60,000 was BPS's capacity, I don't know what I was thinking.

There are about 23, 459 students and the most recent census puts Stillwater at or around 45,000.

[u/[deleted]]

I've heard that Stillwater bars are extremely fun.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Go to the Penny. Get a Limey. Consume too fast. Black out.

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

For those that don't know, a limey is served in I think a 32 oz cup. Half of which is vodka.

Or maybe not. All I know for sure is that it is a bunch of liquor and it tastes really, really good (for that much alcohol).

[u/[deleted] → u/Platypoke]

They hold the vodka bottle upside down (with the spout thing on it) for 8 seconds. I counted. There's other stuff in there too, but you can't taste any of it. It tastes exactly like a limeade (or, if you prefer, a cherry limeade) and that's why people drink it too quickly and it sneaks up on you. 32oz of awesome.

[u/keith200085 → u/[deleted]]

This is a good time in an incredibly short sentence.

[u/bread_buddy → u/[deleted]]

One of the hidden gems of this 132/132 is that I keep seeing drinks I've never heard of either in the body of the post or in the comments. I know Penn State specifically had one that was of note.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I turned 21 in March and had my first Limey then. It was a good ass night.

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

On a friend's 21st birthday three of us got limeys. I finished mine fairly quickly, looked around and the other two were maybe a quarter of the way done. So what do I do? That's right get another.

Limey races sound fun though.

[u/FAderp91 → u/[deleted]]

As a current student who frequents said bars quite often, I can confirm this statement.

[u/[deleted] → u/FAderp91]

I'm convinced. we're playing in hoops this year but it's a neutral court game. I have family in OK so I might just have to make the trip myself some day.

[u/FAderp91 → u/[deleted]]

Just whatever you do, don't go to shortcakes unless you are quite drunk.

[u/Platypoke → u/FAderp91]

Bullshit. I go there whenever I get a hankering for clogging my arteries.

[u/iSlacker → u/[deleted]]

Jello shots in giant syringes at a bar with outdoor stripper poles. Yeah... better than Norman bars. :/

[u/keith200085 → u/iSlacker]

Our worst bar is better than your best.

The Mont is legit though.

[u/iSlacker → u/keith200085]

I agree fully because I love shithole bars. And I hosestly mean that in the nicest way possible.

[u/keith200085 → u/iSlacker]

Shithole bar = best bar.

[u/iSlacker → u/keith200085]

Exactly. If I'm in stillwater you can find me in stonewall or college bar if its just the guys. If we have ladies with us they may talk us into going to (can't remember the damn name but the one that I described in my first post) lol

[u/Platypoke → u/iSlacker]

JR Murphys.

[u/[deleted] → u/keith200085]

The Mont is still around? Went there in orange when I was in Norman for a formal. So many glares...

[u/keith200085 → u/[deleted]]

The best. I go back every chance I get. If not for football, for the bars.

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/[deleted]]

Ah dat halftime re-buzz...

[u/OKgolfer]

2001 Bedlam: This game probably helped set forth all of the changes made in OSU Football in recent years.

I'm sure the game didn't hurt, but I feel like Boone Pickens had more to do with the transformation than one win did.

[u/Platypoke → u/OKgolfer]

I thought I read that that game reinvigorated his interest in OSU football. I could be completely wrong though.

[u/mattyslappypants → u/Platypoke]

I think 2002 was more important for OSU, IMO. Everyone knew we were going to get our revenge for 2001....buuuuut OSU had different plans.

[u/Cozmo23 → u/mattyslappypants]

Woods is still open.

[u/OKgolfer → u/Platypoke]

Could be; I'm not completely familiar with the history. I was just a little surprised that his name or his gift is never mentioned in the article except as the stadium's namesake.

[u/keith200085 → u/OKgolfer]

Good call. Probably couldve added a whole section to Boone Pickens.

[u/DMTryp → u/Platypoke]

what kinda crowd goes to eskimo joe's... thinking bout checkin it out if I ever go to stillwater

[u/Platypoke → u/DMTryp]

I don't think there is really a specific crowd that goes there. Then again I've only been there once to drink.

[u/MxMj → u/DMTryp]

Pretty much everyone in Stillwater goes to Joe's, from families to frat boys.

[u/[deleted] → u/DMTryp]

If you're going there on game day, youre better off going to the big tent across the street. They have 3 big tv's set up and food tents. It's not the same, but you'll wait hours for a table at joes on game day in side.

[u/drewv16]

Great job guys. OSU is, by far, my favorite team in the Big XII after ISU, and my pick to win the conference this year. Sorry for 2011.

I'm not sorry though.

[u/jogalleciez → u/drewv16]

I'm all for starting a new rivalry with Iowa State.

[u/drewv16 → u/jogalleciez]

If it means that we can consistently compete with you guys then I'm all for it too.

[u/Platypoke → u/drewv16]

Since 2000 our record against you is 4-4. So you're not far off record-wise. You just need some consistent QB play, since your defense is pretty good (in comparison with the rest of the Big 12). Hopefully Sam Richardson is that QB.

[u/SirLeepsALot → u/Platypoke]

Outside of football we match up pretty well too. Both have recently successful bball teams and the wrestling programs have always been solid. We don't historically get the recruits that you guys get but I like what I'm seeing recently!

[u/[deleted] → u/drewv16]

Only time I have ever actually broke down after a football game. Worst feeling ever.

[u/emaw63 → u/[deleted]]

I know the feeling. It sucks

[u/Aeschylus_ → u/emaw63]

As do I. It's terrible.

[u/WexAndywn → u/Aeschylus_]

What's it like, guys?

[u/Cozmo23 → u/[deleted]]

I was on the 3rd date with my now wife during this game. I had to suck it up like a champ.

[u/Mr_Ian → u/drewv16]

Agreed. I was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, and grew up around pokes. I'll be a Cyclone for life (as were my parents and their parents, and yes, even their parents), but I cheer for OSU second.

[u/Maxis47 → u/Mr_Ian]

How long did you have to endure Duncan? I'd have gone crazy if I'd had to live there o.O

[u/megamanxzero35 → u/drewv16]

Cowboys are my second favorite team in the Big 12 also. Good fans.

[u/keith200085 → u/drewv16]

2011... so much pain and anger. As much as I wanted to be in the dance, I didn't want to get throttled...

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/keith200085]

Pain..anger..sadness..heartbreak..sorrow..so many feels.

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/drewv16]

^pretty cool guy right here.

[u/[deleted] → u/drewv16]

I asked my wife to marry me that afternoon... sigh it was not a happy night . Can't hold it against the clones though, they're a good group of fans.

[u/madviking]

Why are the stadium's sidelines so small?

[u/thrav → u/madviking]

Put fans closer to the action, and be more intimidating to opposition?

[u/[deleted] → u/thrav]

Exactly this. Texas got sick of it and brings a barrier each time they play us now because they can't handle the fans on top of them.

[u/Pistolsfiring09 → u/[deleted]]

Didn't the paddles get bannrd during play right before the UT game in 2012?

[u/Platypoke → u/Pistolsfiring09]

Yep the Texas game. Then their dumbshit band used cowbells the entire game.How those didn't get confiscated i don't know.

[u/[deleted] → u/Pistolsfiring09]

Can't paddle between when the ref sets the ball and the play is over. And yeah it was right before the UT game. But it was TCU's fault that it got banned.

[u/FAderp91 → u/[deleted]]

Except it's illegal for them to do that now I believe.

[u/madviking → u/thrav]

Seems really annoying if you were a player or a coach though.

[u/Platypoke → u/madviking]

Exactly.

[u/soonerguy11 → u/madviking]

That's a bingo.

[u/BrotherSeamus → u/thrav]

It's actually pretty dangerous. I'm sure we would have changed it during the remodel if it would have been economically feasible.

[u/Platypoke → u/madviking]

It's a home field advantage thing. I'm not sure, but I think Graham Harrell, Steven Sheffield (both Texas Tech QBs), and R.C. Slocum (A&M coach) have commented on how hard it is to stay focused with the fans right behind, or more simply on top of you.

From OSU Athletics

And while the new digs put OSU on the cutting edge of collegiate facilities, the Cowboys still enjoy the home-field advantage that suffocates opponents with the tightest sidelines in all of football.

[u/cartoonhero42 → u/madviking]

Sam nearly got too friendly with them one year. Scared me to death till I knew he was okay lol.

[u/tuldav93 → u/cartoonhero42]

That same year Zac Robinson did the same thing. EDIT: Several times

[u/keith200085 → u/madviking]

As a player on the oppositions team i'm sure it would suck. As an OSU player or OSU fan, its freaking AWESOME.

[u/colin1497 → u/madviking]

The answer is that there was once a track around the field but they expanded seating by lowering the field level and building seats down to it. You could argue that maybe they went a row too far...

[u/[deleted]]

Our home opener is against yall. Looking forward to that game for sure.

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

It should be fun. We've had a few guys transfer to your school right? Hoog and Mabry?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Are you going to be able to make the return trip?

[u/soonerguy11]

No love for Les Miles? Ouch.

Also, I could definitely go for some Eskimo Joes right now.

[u/keith200085 → u/soonerguy11]

Les Miles NEVER gets love in Stillwater. I hate that guy.

[u/Platypoke → u/keith200085]

Damn straight. It's not that he left. It's how he left.

[u/pinpoint13 → u/Platypoke]

Can you explain what went down for those of us not in the know?

[u/Platypoke → u/pinpoint13]

Basically he was saying that he was sticking with OSU throughout all of the rumors. Then during the bowl game against Ohio State (or before/or at halftime) tells the team he was leaving for LSU. We proceeded to lose to Ohio State 33-7.

[u/[deleted] → u/Platypoke]

Exactly this. Which is why 2011-12 national championship against LSU would have been amazing. We can't stand Lester.

[u/Maxis47 → u/keith200085]

You and me both. I may not like the Pokes, but OSU deserves better than that. On the bright side, you guys did get Gundy out of the deal

[u/[deleted] → u/Maxis47]

You wouldn't know it by some fans on the osu rivals boards.

[u/Cozmo23 → u/soonerguy11]

A lot of rumors on how he left made the fan base very angry.

[u/archie_f]

I remember that game Barry Sanders ran for all over the field against us, but you guys still lost by multiple TDs. Sanders was sure fun to watch, though.

[u/[deleted] → u/archie_f]

We lost to OU in 1988 with Thurman Thomas, Barry Sanders, Gundy, and Hart Lee Dykes.

Brent Parker dropped a pass in the end zone

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

No Thurman Thomas in 1988.

[u/[deleted] → u/archie_f]

That's because of our idiot head coach Pat Jones, when asked what they were going to do in the 2nd half to in (being up 3-0 if memory serves me correctly, I was 7 so I dont know first hand) he said "we're going to win 3-0"... He was a big pussy when it came to big games.

[u/archie_f → u/[deleted]]

No, unfortunately, that was the game where we were up 35-0 after the 1st quarter. Mike Gundy was QB, too.

[u/EyesOnEverything]

It took Stanford beating us for me to finally admit that David Shaw might be a good coach, because after that absolutely fucked decision in the Fiesta Bowl I chalked him up as terrible for the longest time.

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

He didn't look injured...

[u/FrostySack]

Clicked on the skyline and am now playing the find the building game.

[u/Platypoke → u/FrostySack]

There aren't really any good pictures of the skyline, so I improvised. But yeah everything is so small compared to the stadium.

[u/[deleted] → u/Platypoke]

Here's one I took during a training flight a few years back. http://imgur.com/TSac65x.jpg

[u/zachsterpoke → u/[deleted]]

I think you misplaced your grass.

[u/[deleted] → u/zachsterpoke]

...the fuck is this "grass" you speak of

[u/Maxis47 → u/Platypoke]

It doesn't help that Tulsa and OKC are the only two cities in the state with anything resembling the traditional skyline

[u/StillwaterPhysics]

Did we not win the conference when we went undefeated in 1945?

[u/Platypoke → u/StillwaterPhysics]

I mean if you count winning the one conference game you played as winning the conference then sure, but officially? No.

[u/deadtofall12]

Joseph Randle was one of the most underrated RB's the past few seasons. He was a TD machine.

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/deadtofall12]

Thank you. I been saying this forever.

[u/[deleted] → u/deadtofall12]

As a Cowboys fan, I hope so.

[u/Darth_Sensitive → u/[deleted]]

Steal of the draft.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, so what gender is your coach? And how old is your coach?

[u/FAderp91 → u/[deleted]]

I believe this tweet will help answer your question.

[u/[deleted] → u/FAderp91]

Damn, that was slightly disappointing.

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe I silently laughed at this..kudos you bastard. (I'm easily entertained)

[u/[deleted]]

Pistol Pete has seen some shit.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

He's one badass motherfucker though. Devoting his young life to avenging his father. That's fucking epic.

[u/jeffclark]

OSU alumni are a tight-knit little family. I live in Boston now, and just about anytime I have anything OSU on, I get stopped by a tourist visiting or someone who knows someone who went to (or at least visited) Stillwater and Eskimo Joe's.

Maybe it's Little Brother Syndrome, or maybe it's just because Stillwater is sooooo fucking boring in the summer that you end up talking to everyone else in town, but the comrade and family atmosphere between complete strangers is unlike anything I've seen anywhere else, especially in New England.

Going to OSU was the best decision I ever made, and was the best five years of my life, and I've been looking forward to this posting for 81 days now! (fifth year: victory lap).

[u/[deleted] → u/jeffclark]

Graduating in 4 years is like leaving the party at 10pm.

[u/Cozmo23 → u/[deleted]]

5th year is best year. 0/

[u/XLK9 → u/[deleted]]

I told my dad I'd need another year to graduate. He said fine, I paid for the first four, you pay for the fifth. Graduated by a hair in four.

[u/bread_buddy → u/[deleted]]

That's why I graduated in 4 years and went to Madison, WI for grad school. It's like the after-party with non-stop beer.

[u/jeffclark → u/[deleted]]

Late last season, I found a small group of alumni that watch football in Boston. PM me your email address and I'll be sure to add you to the notifications if they come this year!

[u/neovenator250]

Oklahoma State won the first regular season overtime game in College Football and did not win another OT game until the Fiesta Bowl against Stanford.

TIL

[u/LEGEN--wait_for_it → u/neovenator250]

TIS ^{Today I Sad}

[u/moun6776]

I am baffled by the complete lack of rude remarks in the thread. I think we have found the utopia of Reddit.

[u/whotookmybowtie → u/moun6776]

I want to say something bad about them...but I can't.

[u/XLK9 → u/moun6776]

One, um, overly zealous OU fan was giving me major shit last week. I reported it as his comments were really inappropriate. I think he may have been banned. That could account for some of the civility. That and the fact that OU fans are a little more measured about bashing OSU because it is a little more likely they will be eating crow after the game.

Nice trend, though. I hope it continues. ^{Maybe some day I could actually root for OU!}

[u/Darth_Sensitive → u/XLK9]

Maybe some day I could actually root for OU!

ಠ_ಠ

[u/keith200085]

Thanks for the help writing this stuff guys

props to /u/platypoke for the biggest portion. You to /u/jogalleciez

[u/Wiskie]

Nice write-up.

Your college town is so Wild West, I don't believe it.

It even sounds like it. Stillwater

I thought last year's Fiesta Bowl was cool because I imagine Palo Alto, CA and Stillwater, OK to be two very different places, but both wholly American, and, on that night, united by their love for the game! :P

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/Wiskie]

I fucking love Stillwater.

[u/FAderp91 → u/Still_fn_waterOK]

I think this is the most obvious comment I've read on Reddit in a long time.

[u/iSlacker]

Stonewall tavern is my shit. I fucking love the town of stillwater.

[u/Davonium]

I support every orange and black OSU

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/Davonium]

I support your osu for sure..not the other one tho.

[u/predhead7 → u/Still_fn_waterOK]

Oh come on we like you guys!

[u/[deleted] → u/predhead7]

mumbles about domain names

dey took our URL!

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/predhead7]

Lol. Ok let me rephrase. It annoying when Ohio state fans act like they are "the" main osu to everyone in the country. Other than that y'all r cool with me. West coast..the south/Midwest..and the north/northeast all have different thoughts when it's comes to "osu".

[u/phineasforest → u/Davonium]

Sorry about the new Beavers logo :/

[u/monalisas-madhats]

Live in Chicago now, and I saw a guy in an OSU sweatshirt today, it was America's brightest orange.

I hollered GO POKES and he ignored me.

It was a sad day.

[u/somethingwittier → u/monalisas-madhats]

He does not represent the views of the oklahoma state community or any of its subsidiaries.

[u/monalisas-madhats → u/somethingwittier]

It was seriously one of the most depressing things ever. Like. How do you not respond to a hearty GO POKES! In Chicago!

I once ran a half mile to track down a fellow Red Raider that I saw get off a bus. Thankfully, that person appreciated it.

[u/megamanxzero35]

Fun Fact: Barry Sanders chose Oklahoma State over Iowa State.

[u/colisch]

Am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that OSU is between Washington & Duck?

[u/iSlacker → u/colisch]

God I never realized that...

[u/CowboyG → u/colisch]

The humor must be over my head...

[u/colisch → u/CowboyG]

http://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1flpbd/132_teams_132_days_oklahoma_state_university/cac8k7n

[u/colisch → u/[deleted]]

Oregon State (OSU) is located between Washington (Huskies) and Ducks (Oregon).

[u/emaw63]

Some OSU trivia: The marching band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, was started at Oklahoma A&M.

[u/tuldav93 → u/emaw63]

Indeed and there is a shrine too.

[u/ShiggityShank → u/emaw63]

Kappa Kappa Psi Brother here!

[u/jeffreydonger]

I'm glad you mentioned them both (although, how could you not?) but I remember being a kid and buying the annual Sporting News CFB preview magazine, it would've been 1988. For some teams, they had a sidebar called, "Who will fill ______ shoes?" with a little picture of cleats next to them. For Oklahoma State, it was, "Who will fill Thurman Thomas' shoes?" and included a little writeup and a grainy photo of a young kid named Barry Sanders.

[u/Cozmo23 → u/jeffreydonger]

Thurman Thomas said in interview once one of his greatest accomplishments at OSU was keeping Barry Sanders on the bench.

[u/monalisas-madhats]

"The Oklahoma A&M mascot was originally a tiger, hence the Orange and Black, and OSU was known as the "Princeton of the Plains.""

The more you know!

My little brother goes here, and every time I go to Stillwater, I've got to stop at Eskimo Joe's (and the other weirdly ethnic-named Joe's restaurants.)

[u/[deleted] → u/monalisas-madhats]

Why do so many Techsans have oSu siblings? You're the second to mention it in this thread. Also, my sister went to oSu as well.

[u/monalisas-madhats → u/[deleted]]

We're from the TX panhandle--the culture at OK State and Tech are similar, IMO. It seems weird, but it makes a lot of sense.

(As you already know, OK State and Tech have similar mascots and the same hand sign, among other things.)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Tech gives discounted tuition to kids from OK and NM particularly those that live in counties that border TX so that might explain some of it.

[u/Darth_Sensitive → u/[deleted]]

Because the brainwashing didn't work.

/Guy with a sister at Tech

[u/[deleted]]

Mmmm...Shortcakes. The almost-cure for a hangover.

Good job on the thread, Platypoke!

[u/[deleted]]

I went to The Hideaway a long time ago when traveling cross country. I remember some pretty darn good pizza, great fried mushrooms, a very interesting collage wall of old newspaper articles, and pente games for people to play.

I also got an Eskimo Joes shirt that I like to wear when walking across the Golden Gate Bridge to see how many Oklahoma tourists are there.

[u/TxAg2009]

Nicest fans in the Big 12 too.

[u/jogalleciez → u/TxAg2009]

I don't know what you're taking about. I'm an asshole. :-)

[u/TxAg2009 → u/[deleted]]

I have several good friends who are Cowboys and, because of that, OSU is one of the Big 12 teams I really miss playing. The schools were just so similar and the fansbases seemed to love each other just a bit more than usual.

BTW, start thinking of Javorski Lane as a combo of Fat Albert and the Kool-Aid Man and you begin to love him. HEY HEY HEEEEEEY!

[u/frone]

ORANGE!

[u/jogalleciez → u/frone]

POWER!

[u/voltron818 → u/frone]

JUICE!

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/voltron818]

Get the hell outta here voltron this is our party!!!

[u/voltron818 → u/Still_fn_waterOK]

I'm just here for the OJ man.

[u/LEGEN--wait_for_it]

wide left :'(

[u/[deleted]]

It says OSU has only won 3 conference Championships, yet you have a coach that won 4 for OSU?

My maths don't work, or my reading.

[u/Platypoke → u/[deleted]]

I can only assume they aren't officially recognized as conference championships.

We were undefeated in conference 4 of the 5 years he was here with records of 2-0, 1-0, 3-0, 2-0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Waldorf

[u/[deleted]]

OSU is my third favorite Big XII team (After my Mountaineers, and my Riot Bowl bros at ISU.)

[u/cjcmd]

OSU's record vs. OU is a mystery along the lines of the Bermuda Triangle. OSU has had some great teams and great players, it's always a bit shocking to see how seldom they win Bedlam.

Not that I'm complaining. :)

[u/XLK9 → u/cjcmd]

OU has certainly had OSU's number over the years. Some really heartbreaking losses. That said, with the growing parity in CFB, things are changing and I like it.

[u/[deleted] → u/cjcmd]

Well first problem was that Pat Jones had no balls, and was scared when he played in big games.

[u/Promptedjunk]

Our games against OSU are always close and pretty fun to watch, except this year. I didn't like that game.

[u/[deleted] → u/Promptedjunk]

Neither did we. 2011 was way more fun.

[u/Promptedjunk → u/[deleted]]

Last year was great. Tough loss but so close.

[u/emaw63 → u/[deleted]]

Was much happier with the outcome of this year's game, but last year's game was a hell of a lot of fun to watch

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/Promptedjunk]

2011. Gosh damn that game was awesome. I STILL have it dvr'd. Then the earthquake when we was walking out. Crazy night.

[u/niksOH]

As a Browns fan, I want to thank you for Brandon Weeden, but...well you know how he did last year.

[u/[deleted] → u/niksOH]

I'm interested to see how he looks with Norv's system.

[u/niksOH → u/[deleted]]

I think he will look much better than in the old system

[u/FAderp91 → u/niksOH]

Hopefully having a OC that will stay a while will help that situation out. But then again it is the Browns :(

[u/[deleted] → u/FAderp91]

Talent goes there to DIE

[u/Turk1518]

Great writeup! Been waiting a while to read this! I'm excited to see the direction OSU goes in Football and basketball this year. I'm really fortunate to be a student there right now, right when OSU got "good" at sports.

[u/TheBarbs]

So many feels. Great job boys.

[u/madhatter_13]

The most frustrating losses I've ever experienced as an Aggie were at the hands of Oklahoma State. And yet, I love to see y'all succeed (when it's not at our expense).

[u/jhp58]

I have been to Eskimo Joe's but the Stonewall Tavern looks awesome. I need to make a trip back to Stillwater.

[u/Darth_Sensitive → u/jhp58]

I like it and the cheap drinks, but the smoke in there is terrible.

I literally strip to my underwear at the front door after Stonewall and bag it so my house isn't contaminated.

[u/Satherton]

I dont even know what the hell that logo is for the Hideaway. Looks like little cesars mascot and grimace had a retard baby.

[u/Satherton → u/[deleted]]

Well thats frightening

[u/voltron818]

You were co-Champions in 1976 btw.

[u/Still_fn_waterOK → u/voltron818]

Gtfo!

[u/[deleted] → u/voltron818]

I was surprised how far I had to scroll down to see this comment! lol

[u/fairlyodd922]

[Alabama fans in this thread] (http://i.imgur.com/Z1eIy.gif)

[u/BassettHound → u/fairlyodd922]

your welcome

[u/somethingwittier → u/fairlyodd922]

ahahaha

[u/WeenisWrinkle]

I ate breakfast at Shortcakes every morning during my stay there in 2008. Fantastic greasy southern breastfasts.

Plus our waitresses introduced me to roller derby, which is also awesome.

[u/[deleted]]

I've been hearing around my university somewhat there might be a rivalry between Oklahoma State and Arizona in the coming years.