In this four-part series, The O’Colly will revisit the 1981-87 Oklahoma State baseball teams, which have one of the most dominant stretches in college baseball history.
The Cowboys’ seven consecutive College World Series appearances mark the longest stretch in the sport’s history, but they never came away with a national championship.
Gary Ward knew his 1985 team was national championship-caliber.
Seldom does a roster, which made the College World Series the previous season like Oklahoma State had, return so much production offensively and on the mound and not have national championship aspirations.