STILLWATER, Okla. -- Mike Gundy isn't sure how the course of football history in the state of Oklahoma might have changed had he stuck to his original choice nearly 40 years ago.
Maybe not at all.
But as Gundy, in his 19th season as Oklahoma State's coach, prepares for Saturday's game with Oklahoma, the last Bedlam matchup for the foreseeable future, he can still see his late mother, Judy, in the living room of their Midwest City, Oklahoma, home, with tears streaming down her face after he told her and his father as a high school senior that he was going to Oklahoma State -- and not OU.