Cowboys hope to buck vexing trend
No OSU lead appears safe against Texas
STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy could sure use one of those trinkets out of a science-fiction movie that would flash a bright light and erase his memory heading into Saturday’s game against No. 1 Texas.
No team has created more anguish for the seventh-ranked Cowboys (7-0, 3-0 Big 12) in recent years than the Longhorns. It’s not just that Texas has 10 straight wins in the series. It’s the fashion in which those victories have come.
Four of the past five years, the Longhorns have rallied from deficits to rip out the Cowboys’ hearts.
None was more wrenching than last year’s 38-35 defeat, which Oklahoma State led by 21 with 12 minutes left before Texas’ largest fourth-quarter comeback in school history.
“I can go back, and games don’t ever leave your memory bank. Whatever side that is of your brain … that records information and data, I’d like to have a way to get some of it out. It never goes away,” Gundy said.
The Texas comebacks have been at least a trend, and seemingly something much more special than that – more like a spell the Longhorns (7-0, 3-0) have cast on their Big 12 South rival.