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Mike Gundy suggests home-and-home spring game to revive Bedlam series
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Mike Gundy expressed some thoughts on the future of spring games while meeting with reporters in Stillwater on Tuesday.
The Oklahoma State coach was asked about the idea of scrimmaging another college team in place of a traditional spring game each year. Most notably, Colorado and Syracuse have expressed interest in playing each other in a spring exhibition this year.
Gundy called it a “great idea” and then took it a step further, saying he thinks OK State and Oklahoma should revive the Bedlam series in the form of an annual spring game.
“We should do a home-and-home with OU in the spring,” Gundy said. “They should come here on the 19th and I think their’s is earlier in the year, but we should go down there and play a home-and-home in the spring against them. Charge 25 bucks a head. They can use it for NIL, we can use it for NIL. If they don’t want to do 2 in 1 spring, we could do 1 here this year and do 1 there next year and split the gate [revenue].
“Because we get tired of practicing against each other. It’s not going to be a live game. I don’t know what coach Venables would say but I would be concerned with making it live just because of injury. But nobody really has live scrimmages anymore. So you make it a real thud like we’re doing and practicing against each other, just like they do in the NFL. We’re moving towards the NFL, why not do that? I think it would be a great idea.”
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State last played in 2023 and currently have no official games scheduled. In the past, Gundy has been critical of Oklahoma’s move to the SEC and has lamented the end of the Bedlam football series. OU and OSU have continued to play annually in other sports such as basketball, baseball and softball.
Oklahoma’s spring game is currently schedule for April 12. The Cowboys will hold their annual spring game on April 19.
Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.
