After Oklahoma State completed the largest comeback in team history, coach Mike Gundy put his own label on a 37-35 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl victory over Notre Dame.
“This is clearly the biggest win in the history of the school,” Gundy said. “You’re in a New Year’s Day bowl. You’re playing Notre Dame. Biggest comeback in the school history. … The biggest win in the history of the school.”
Oklahoma State rallied from a 28-7 deficit in the second quarter to score 30 straight points. The team’s previous biggest comeback was 20 points down against Colorado in 1979.
The Cowboys won 12 games for the first time under Gundy, a former Oklahoma State quarterback in his 17th season as head coach.
Oklahoma State also won the Fiesta Bowl after the 2011 season to finish No. 3 nationally. This season, Oklahoma State ended a six-game losing streak to rival Oklahoma, and it made its first Big 12 championship game appearance but fell to Baylor as running Dezmon Jackson was stopped inches short of a potential winning touchdown.
“We feel like if we didn’t win this game, this would be kind of a season of just forgotten greatness,” defensive end Brock Martin said after the Fiesta Bowl. “We lost the Big 12 championship, and then you lose the Fiesta Bowl, all that greatness and the great things you did as a unit, the D-line and linebackers and DBs, we kind of felt like it would be forgotten over time.”
Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Sanders finished with 371 passing yards and four touchdowns to go with 125 rushing yards on 17 carries. He joined former Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd as the only FBS players to record 350 pass yards, 100 rush yards and four touchdowns in a bowl…
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