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What I will appreciate is that when Texas comes aboard, the LHN will die an overdue death, so I am reliably informed. 

Three games so far this year, and we couldn't watch two of them.  The wins, no less. 

You might wonder why I care, well Mrs. DeTiger is a Longhorn, and you know what they say, happy wife, happy life. 

To exacerbate her weekend, CBS had the Cowboys game--the object of her NFL fandom--and for some reason put it in the same time slot as the Texans.  Meaning we got Texans/Broncos and the Cowboys game was not available.  I have never seen that in all my years living in or near Texas. 

I'm a sucker for in-state rivalries and any with a lot of history.  I'm an oddball, though, and probably don't represent "the college football world."  I really like U-Dubb/Wazzu, Oregon/Or. St., ASU/Zona....all those.  Not sure how many games they've played how often, but they've all played every year that I've been paying attention. 

Ergo, I like the OU/oSu game. 

I expect everything to annoy me eventually, as the college sport shortly achieves it's not-so-slow march to being the NFL Part 2. 

Pretty sure the SEC is going to go to pods and we're going to lose our annual games with the Alabama schools and at least one of the Mississippi schools.  Ugh.  A&M is still weird as a conference game, but I welcome it because LSU/A&M was always fun growing up.

It's hard for me to measure how "iconic" the Bedlam rivalry is. Does College Football Nation really care about it?

From my perspective, it's a game that OU plays every year (usually near the end of the season) and nearly always wins. When OU wins, there's not much to brag about, as that's the norm. But when oSu* wins, Poke fans crow about it for years.

I suspect that the Pokes are secretly glad to see it go, even though the only time they sell out their 55,000-seat stadium is when Bedlam is played in Stillwater. They're going to be positioned as one of the top 2-3 programs in the Big 12-to-be, and an almost-annual loss to OU could mess up their CFP hopes. The oSu administration has not indicated any desire to continue it as an OOC rivalry on either an annual or occasional basis. OU might be willing to play oSu in a home-and-home series every decade or so, but to do it as an annual series does not fit in with its scheduling philosophy.

If OU were to establish an annual OOC series, I'd like it to be with Nebraska, not oSu.

* No disrespect intended. It's my simulation of the Oklahoma State University "brand" to avoid confusion, as there are two other "OSU's."