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Seven seasons have pa sed since one of the biggest controversiesof college football's BCS era took Joel Iyiegbuniwe Jersey place, and Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy is still sore about it.Gundy, in a , maintained his 2011 Oklahoma State team would have beaten LSU in the national championship game if only his Cowboys had been given the chance."We would have played LSU and won," Gundy told ESPN. "They were an overload-the-box, man-to-man team on defense, and you could not play our team in man that year. We were too good. That still bothers me, that we didn't get a shot."MORE: Oklahoma State finished the season ranked thirdin the BCS standings after an improbable 37-31 overtime lo s to Iowa State, which eventually finished the season 6-7. That opened NFL Chicago Bears Jersey the door for Alabama, which lost a No. 1-vs.-No. 2 matchup with LSU previously that year, to rematch the Tigers in an all-SEC national title game despite the Tide being idle in the final week of the season while No. 3 Oklahoma Statewhipped No. 10 Oklahoma, 44-10.Gundy can say whatever he wants about how his Jonathan Bullard Jersey team matched up with LSU, but the fact is his group couldn't finish against a vastly inferior Iowa State squad. That isultimately what cost the Cowboys.(Oklahoma Statefinished the season 12-1 afterbeating No. 4 Stanford, 41-38, in the Fiesta Bowl.)That said, it would have been fun to see how Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon measured up against Tyrann Mathieu, Morris Claiborne and company."And if the system was set up like it is now, we would have been in the Playoff, Gundy said. "I gue s those things don't drive me as much. I love for our kids to have succe s, don't get me wrong. But I don't dwell on it like I used to."Ironically, it Pat O'Donnell Jersey was that all-SEC title game (and, by extension, OSU's lo s to the Cyclones) that sounded the death knellof the BCS. It lasted only two more seasons, with the inaugural College Football Playoff debuting in 2014. Had it been in place in 2011, the Cowboys would have Mike Singletary Jersey played Alabama in onesemifinal game regardle s of which teamwas ranked No. 2 or 3 while top-ranked LSU took on No. 4 Stanford in the other.An unfortunate circumstanceof the BCS system, but one that creates one heck of a what-if scenario.