The Clock Finally Strikes Midnight on Mike Gundy
at Oklahoma State

Two weeks ago, Oregon hung 69 points on Oklahoma State in Eugene. That was bad enough — a humiliation on national TV that stripped whatever false bravado still clung to a program sleepwalking into irrelevance. Friday night, coming off a bye week, the Cowboys managed to dig deeper. They lost 19–12 at home to Tulsa. Yes, Tulsa.

The Cowboys had just staggered through one of the most embarrassing campaigns in program history: an 0-9 record in the Big 12, despite returning 20 of 22 starters from a team that had made the league title game the year prior. 

In 2023, OSU played for a conference championship against Texas. In 2024, with the same roster, they didn’t win a single conference game.

After Losing to Tulsa at home for the first time since 1951, Oklahoma State did indeed fire Mike Gundy as the team's head football coach on Tuesday. 

 If you’re the OSU Board of Regents, that should have been your “we can’t do this anymore” moment with Mike Gundy.

Not since 1951 had Oklahoma State dropped a home game to the Golden Hurricane. Not since 1998 had they lost to Tulsa at all. And yet here we are, 2025, staring at a box score that reads like a eulogy. Tulsa racked up 424 yards of offense. Quarterback Baylor Hayes completed 23-of-36 passes for 219 yards and a touchdown. Dominic Richardson — the same running back Gundy and staff couldn’t keep in Stillwater — gashed his old program for 146 yards on 31 carries.

 That’s what it looks like when the transfer portal takes and the other sideline collects the spoils.