Oklahoma State football: Website reports Mike Gundy interviews for Tennessee job

“The very best chance for us to win a Big 12 championship is to not encourage what could be a 10th game of the year that could be very difficult,” Gundy said in November. “It's just the percentages. But I don't do scheduling. I've not been involved in scheduling, so if that's going on, it's dealing with somebody else.”

It's hard to fathom Gundy actually bolting OSU for a job like Arkansas or Tennessee, two schools with plenty of history but in rough shape at the present moment.

And it's possible — even likely — Gundy is using any talks with other schools as leverage he and big-time agent Jimmy Sexton can use with OSU. We saw it last week with Les Miles, who got a new contract from LSU just after having preliminary discussions with Arkansas.

Or, at the very least, Gundy is trying to make a point that he wants more control over all aspects of his program.

There's definitely smoke surrounding Gundy and his interest in other head coaching jobs.

But is there fire?

Stay tuned.