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You mean Baja Oklahoma. We're coming for that land.

From the river to the gulf...

...shite, "orange" gets all the glory for being unrhymable, but "gulf" is a motherfricker too. So much for making up a catchy chant.

Depends on the type of gap we're talking about.

A good college team is most likely to beat a pro team on any given day in baseball due to the nature of the game. It's not terribly rare for bottom-feeder college teams to beat elite teams because elite teams slump and can't get hits all the time. This is much more likely to happen in baseball than other other two sports

But I'd say baseball also has the biggest talent gap by far between D1 and MLB because so much of the talent pool skips college and goes straight to the minors, especially the elite talent.

Rhoads is absolutely an elite venue...a huge stadium with great fans. It's on my short list of SEC travel destinations I need to visit.

The first D1 softball (or any softball really) that caught my attention was the 2012 national championship series when Bama beat OU. I had no idea it could be such an entertaining sport.

I watched only the late postseason for quite a few years after that because it was about all that was on TV. Then in 2021, I decided to start paying attention to the entire season. It was still a lot of listening on the radio while at work, even that recently.

But the last three years, nearly all the games started being televised, even if it was just a single camera behind home plate in the early season. This year, every single game has had multiple cameras, and it's fantastic.

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Did I see where Oklahoma schedule was one of the weakest in the nation? No wonder they’ve got the stats.

Ranked 108 as of Sunday

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What's your source?

According to RPI, they have the 11th toughest schedule to date and the 4th toughest going forward.

Warren Nolan

Massey

You could have waited a few more days and actually been correct.

I recall ND getting similar special treatment (at least at times) during the BCS and 4-team playoff eras.

I would have liked to have played ND in the first round for the variety, but at the same time, I think Bama was the right call...especially after seeing how ND has showed its arse after being "snubbed."

Who is healthy will play a big part for both teams.

Bedlam originated with wrestling, a sport in which both schools are blue bloods, but OSU is historically the best program in the country by far....dozens of NCs, I think.

I don't follow wrestling, but I believe OU (with Mizzou) still wrestles in the BIG 12, so Bedlam lives on as it was meant to be. Good for them.

As for football, Mike Gundy and T Boone made something of their program in the 2000s, and there were plenty of exciting games in the series after that. Oklahoma still won the vast majority, but several came down to wire.

But historically, it just wasn't that important for OU. OSU hated our guts, and we were aware of their existence. That's not to sound superior, but the programs were on very different levels.

Bedlam in any sport besides wrestling was manufactured for TV ratings--and I'm sure to try to build excitement within the fan bases. It always felt artificial to me.

And as mentioned above, when they began scheduling it at the end of the season to replace Nebraska, it felt gross. OU-NU mattered on the national stage for decades. Thanksgiving in Stillwater is not Thanksgiving in Lincoln by a far stretch.

I still hold out hope that Nebraska can get back to where they want to be, and we can bring back the non-conference rivalry every year. Conversely, I don't care if OU plays OSU twice a decade or never again.

What an incredible environment for a nighttime college football game. Huge respect to the Tennessee fans and that program, stadium crew and all involved. It's exactly what makes college football better than any other sport in the world.

That's a reasonable take as well. There are always what-ifs to wonder about.

The way both offenses were performing, we can guess that anything different might have helped. But Hawkins could have also had a turnover party of his own. It's happened before.

I agree that the clock management before the half was idiotic. As well as OU was moving the ball then...just so very stupid.

The spread has flipped to OU -1.5.

Don't know how much of that is Mateer's upgrade to probable or just the late money being different. I'd guess the former, but I'm not a bettor except for the rare small stuff between friends. So it's not much of an educated guess.

Curious to see where it lands at game time.