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2005 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ4604706 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2005 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Big 12 Conference in the South Division. They played their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They were coached by head coach Mike Gundy.

Until 2024, this was the last time that the Cowboys had a losing season in football and became ineligible for a bowl game.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2005 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team” is american college football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oklahoma, State and Cowboys, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Oklahoma, State and Cowboys is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4604706. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “2005 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.