The rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas one of the biggest in college football, admired and envied across the country for its scale. But something was lost for the Sooners when they left the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference alongside the Longhorns.
Namely, OU's second biggest rival.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have met 118 times on the football. They didn't last season, though, marking the first year year since 1909 they hadn't played each other. For those that may have forgotten, Oklahoma was not even given statehood until 1907.
But with nothing on the books between between the two for the foreseeable future, some different ideas to keep the fires stoking have been bandied.