Bedlam and Farmageddon will close out the Big 12 regular season.
The Bedlam rivalry between No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 21 Oklahoma State is back at the end of the regular season after earlier November dates the past two seasons. This is the third year in a row Kansas State and Iowa State play on the final weekend.
Doesnt matter when it falls, where its at, always obviously a meaningful football game for this state, Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said. This is one of the best rivalry games without a doubt. Being the last regular season game of the year, certainly one that were very motivated to go play our very best ball.
For the four-time defending Big 12 champion Sooners (10-1, 7-1 Big 12, No. 7 CFP), still hoping to get back to the College Football Playoff for the fourth time in five seasons, Bedlam is another longstanding rivalry against a Big 12 foe.
Other than the Red River rivalry game between Oklahoma and Texas played during the State Fair of Texas each October no other Big 12 games necessarily have set spots on the schedule each season. But this will be the 12th time in 15 years that Bedlam will end the regular season.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State meet Saturday night for the 114th time, one game fewer than the Sooners have played Texas. The extra game among the border-state rivals came in the Big 12 championship game last December, the first time since 1929 the Sooners and Longhorns had played outside the State Fair.
But Oklahoma isnt part of the longest or most-played rivalries among the conference teams. One series goes back to the end of the 19th century, 97 years before the Big 12s inaugural season.
OLDEST RIVALRY
The Revivalry between the leagues two private Christian universities dates to a scoreless tie in the first meeting in 1899, when Baylor and TCU were both located in Waco, Texas. Baylor won in triple overtime earlier this month, but TCU has a 55-53-7 lead in their 115 games. They were in the Southwest Conference together for seven decades, but there was a 10-season hiatus in the series after TCU was left out of the original Big 12 in 1996, then only four non-conference meetings before the Horned Frogs joined the league in 2012.
MOST-PLAYED
RIVALRY
Their campuses separated by a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 70, Kansas and Kansas State met for the 117th time earlier this month in a series that has been played since 1902. The winner of the Sunflower Showdown gets the Governors Cup, which has now gone to Kansas State 11 consecutive seasons. That matches the longest series winning streak by Kansas, which leads 65-47-5 overall.
DAY AT THE FAIR
The Red River rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas is played in the middle of the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, about halfway between their campuses in Norman, Oklahoma, and Austin, Texas. Their passionate fans clad in crimson and burnt orange are split 50-50 at historic Cotton Bowl Stadium, and the winner takes home the Golden Hat Trophy. They first played in 1900.
REAL ROOTS
