We ain't Nebraska, fella. This was our one shot and it was paved with bricks of gold.
Thing is, as much as we'd like to believe that no shot is paved with bricks of gold. It is just a shot, a real chance. Most of the time you fail. Oklahoma has 7 national titles. How many times have they had a shot and failed. It's rough ridin' hard to win.
In roughly 25 years of football we've had roughly 4 decent shots, with 98 and 2012 being the best of those. We're 0-4.
It is rough ridin' hard to win it all.
Of course it's hard. It's also pretty rough ridin' hard for the #1 team to be defeated by a team with a losing record, considering it's the first time it's ever happened in BCS history. But, leave it to good ol K-State to add that notch the bed post of epic failures.
It takes a special kind of fail to walk into a stadium with a national title, conference title on the line, the leading Heisman candidate, and possible coach of the year and get annihilated by four touchdowns, no matter the opponent, much less one as pathetic as Baylor.
Look, this is what we do. It's who we are. Might as well appreciate it for what it is.