I got a text from a lifelong OSU friend on Saturday afternoon that said: “Is it time to accept that Gundy has just gone soft?” I didn’t know how to answer that question, but what I do know about OSU’s loss to Texas Tech is that we can’t put it in a silo. It doesn’t stand on its own. It cannot be looked at in a vacuum.
Instead, it’s another in a long line of similar outcomes over the past three years. After over a decade of OSU thriving as a favorite against teams it was better and more disciplined and tougher than, that is no longer the case.