NORMAN, Okla. -- Sometime in the 1940s, the Sooner State's in-state college rivalry aptly got its name.
After a notably raucous wrestling tilt between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners, a newspaper reporter is said to have rushed outside Stillwater's Gallagher Hall and declared, "It's bedlam in there!"
Bedlam evidently delivered on the mat then, and most certainly is delivering on the field now.
This last decade, few rivalries in college football have featured higher stakes or wilder finishes.
And next weekend, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will meet in a showdown that once again will hold playoff implications and determine the Big 12 champion.