Mike Gundy made one thing clear early on Saturday as his unranked Cowboys, who entered their homecoming tilt against red-hot No. 6 Texas on a two-game skid, battled through their most important game of the season: He’s not going down without a fight.
Turns out, he wasn’t going down at all.
Gundy has shown conservative tendencies over the years in big games from time to time, citing statistics in the aftermath of such instances about playing the numbers and riding the odds as opposed to riding the momentum and playing off the home crowd. Not Saturday, though.