STILLWATER, Okla. -- At 11 p.m. on the campus of Oklahoma State, about five jubilant hours after the Cowboys ended 118 years of Bedlam history with a 27-24 victory over Oklahoma, a group of OSU students were doing a little film study of their own.
"We've analyzed the video," one bystander said, almost as if he's triangulated coordinates. "Look, from this angle, you can see the tree and those two fountains."
Call it CSI: Stillwater. But they weren't solving a crime. They were looking for a legendary piece of OSU football history.
Noah Campbell, a sophomore civil engineering major from Tonkawa, Oklahoma, was shirtless, wearing shorts on a brisk 63-degree night and standing neck-deep in Theta Pond, an idyllic spot on the edge of campus that, according to the university, was "used at the turn of the century to water the college work animals.