As Oklahoma State's second-year head coach in 2006, Mike Gundy had a 7-6 football team that instead could have finished with 11-2.
Cursed with an inability to make the most important plays necessary to prevail in close games, those Cowboys were 0-4 in contests decided by no more than seven points. In conference losses to Kansas State, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Oklahoma, OSU's average margin of defeat was 4.3 points.