OU quarterback Baker Mayfield is returning for the 2017 season

Saturday, many teams will play in their official conference championship game.

Oklahoma Sooners (9-2): While any parallels with the Cowboys are tenuous at best, Oklahoma can relate to a slow start of their own and a late-season resurgence. While OU has a dominating lead in the the football head-to-head, OSU’s is more impressive in wrestling; 137-27-10.

“It means a lot more”, offensive tackle Orlando Brown. The defending national champions are huge favorites against Florida in the SEC title game. Bob Stoops already has the most losses in Bedlam than any other OU coach in history.

There should be plenty of points in this BIG-12 title game, as the Cowboys should find plenty of offense against the nation’s 122nd ranked secondary. No one in Oklahoma will mistake Cowboys QB Mason Rudolph for Jamelle Holieway, but he has shown that he can take off when the opportunity presents itself. With their bad out of conference schedule, could the Big Ten champion jump the Huskies? “I was more accustomed to the Clemson-South Carolina rivalry than this one, so it was different for me”.

The Sooners’ spot in last year’s College Football Playoff was sealed with a 58-23 victory over the Cowboys.

This Saturday, Washington and the Cowboys will meet Westbrook and the Sooners in a Bedlam showdown that will not only decide the Big 12 championship, but will offer several tantalizing matchups.

It’s also a natural in-state rivalry, with plenty of hard feelings on both sides, and that’s always present in this game, whether a conference title is at stake or not. The only Power Five conference without a title game happens to have the only two remaining contenders playing each other on the final day of the season, with the victor taking the title! That was where it all began. No matter if one team is not doing good or whatever. If not for the quality play of the both teams, the Big 12 would be robbed of a chance to participate in that. Oklahoma State’s receivers, led by speedster James Washington, will test him.

In all likelihood, the ability of the Oklahoma State defense to step up will be key. Joe Mixon and Chris Carson average 6.9 yards per carry, Justice Hill averages 5.5 and Samaje Perine gets 5.2 per tote. Together, they have been capable of producing attacks that simply outscore opponents since the Oklahoma defense has been susceptible in all areas. Instead of playing Bedlam at the end of the season, it could be played in September along with games such as Texas vs. TCU and Baylor vs. Texas Tech. “We’re balanced offensively now, the running game is great, and we’ve got the ability to just pound the ball”. “That is satisfying for me because ultimately, that’s what we set out to do”. And if you’re waiting for Gundy to change his mind and admit the Central Michigan game actually was a loss, you’ll be waiting just as long as Gundy will be waiting for the NCAA to change its mind. Gundy’s final play was just as crafty, but he wasn’t sure enough if it was legal to try to override faulty officiating while the game’s result was still in doubt. “We were a little bit beat up at this time last season”. The Cowboys clinched their first Big 12 championship in 2011 after defeating the Sooners for the first time in the Gundy era.