Football
The OSU football program has participatied in 19 bowl games overall and 5 in the last 6 years. There have been 9 conference championships, 1 Heisman Trophy winner, 2 NFL Hall of Fame members, and 32 All-Americans to the Cowboys' name.
Oklahoma State plays football on Lewis Field, in Boone Pickens Stadium, which has recently undergone renovation and expansion.
With a win in Austin over the University of Texas on November 13, 2010, the Oklahoma State Cowboys recorded an all-time winning percentage of 0.5000, winning 519 games and losing 519. It is the first time at or above the .500 mark for the Cowboys since 1951.
The current head coach is Mike Gundy (58-30 and 4–2 in bowl appearances). During Gundy's playing career, the Cowboys enjoyed their greatest success with consecutive nine-win seasons and a record 11 win season in 2010.
Barry Sanders won the Heisman Trophy in 1988.
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 (ISBN 1-602-39099-1).
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)