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OU football: Bedlam attracts highest TV ratings of college football weekend

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Oklahoma's thrilling 48-47 win against Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon earned the highest peak television audience of the college football weekend, according to ESPN.

The game finished with a 3.0 overnight rating, and it jumped to a 5.1 rating when Oklahoma State scored a touchdown with 1:03 left. The Cowboys then failed on a game-deciding two-point conversion attempt.

Oklahoma City and Tulsa were the top-rated TV markets for Bedlam. Oklahoma City's 34.7 local rating was its highest for a regular season college football game on an ESPN network since 2013.

Oklahoma's Marquise Brown (5) scores a touchdown in front of Oklahoma State's Tanner McCalister (2) in the second quarter during a Bedlam college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Nov. 10, 2018. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman