A year after Oklahoma State moved on from Mike Gundy, the school has reached a different kind of milestone: every remaining home ticket for the 2025 season is gone.
That’s the sharpest sign yet that Eric Morris has already changed the mood around the program. When Oklahoma State and Gundy parted ways on Sept. 23, 2025, it didn’t exactly feel like a routine transition.
Gundy had been a fixture for so long that the breakup landed with real force. But the Cowboys have responded in a way that would have been hard to imagine not long ago - by selling out the rest of their home slate.
The timing matters, too. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, is the first anniversary of the OSU-Mike Gundy divorce. And instead of revisiting why the split happened, this moment is about what followed: a fresh start that has quickly produced a striking ticket-sales surge.
The Boone Pickens Stadium capacity is 52,000, and the demand now stretches across the board. The Tulsa World learned that tickets for each of OSU’s conference home games are sold out.
That includes Saturday’s Big 12 opener against West Virginia, plus the home dates with UCF on Oct. 18, Deion Sanders and Colorado on Oct.
25, Texas Tech on Nov. 12 and Kansas on Nov. 29.
For the 2025 season, OSU had only 12 Big 12 home games to sell before the schedule began. Within the Cowboy fan base, expectations were high, but the results have been even better than that. After a 3-0 start, those Cowboys were 3-0 overall and 1-0 in conference play.
There’s no mystery about why this is happening. The school’s financial strain had already pushed football ticket prices up for 2025, with increases ranging from 10% to 21%.
The 11-loss 2024 season was at least 21% worse than the 2023 season, and that reality hit the bottom line hard. Then Eric Morris arrived and made an immediate positive impact on sales.
That’s a credit to the new coach, who found the right message for a fan base ready to believe again. It’s also a credit to Morris, the quarterback coach who followed him from North Texas to Stillwater, because the best quarter back play has a way of making everything around a program feel healthier. Morris is OSU’s best quarterback since Mason Rudolph.
The numbers tell the story without needing any extra decoration. In his last eight quarters, Morris has completed 51% of his passes for 641 yards and seven touchdowns. That kind of production is exactly the sort of thing that can change how a program looks and feels from the outside.
OSU’s ticket-sales turnaround is also a clear sign to university alumni and Cowboys fans. And as one longtime football line puts it: “Time heals all wounds”
File this one away in the “time heals all wounds” folder.
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