The more I looked at OKC Dave’s annual survey, a couple of things stuck out as surprising: the desire to beat OU and Boynton’s approval ratings.
* Bedlam’s importance to OSU fans is high. In the first year of the survey, only 44 percent of Cowboy fans picked OU as the one team they would most like to beat. Those percentages were 51, 80, 58, 63, 64 and 68 percent the next six years. But the last three years, it’s been 88, 91 and now 89 percent.
“It’s hard to get nine out of 10 people to agree on anything,” Hudson wrote, “but beating OU has been a top priority for 90 percent of us for three years running.