In case you hadn’t heard, Oklahoma State’s football team has an in-state road game on Saturday. The Pokes are underdogs by a decent margin and there’s not a ton of hope that they will pull off the 2014-like upset from most prognosticators.
The fact that I have the least amount of optimism for this Bedlam as any I can readily remember, gives me a strange sense of calm. Maybe that’s Stockholm syndrome, or maybe it’s an exhaustive knowledge of this rivalry.
But let’s just remember that college football is as fickle as it is fun, and rivalry games add an extra layer of spontaneity.