OSU beat OU 31-6, and there has not and will not be a Bedlam dual staged in Norman this season, by decision of Sooner coach Lou Rosselli.

“Until we challenge and it’s competitive and fun to watch, you’re still in a very difficult situation,” Rosselli told the Norman Transcript. “My experience so far has been very minimal. I haven’t been that excited about it, because they’re putting out eight All-Americans and we’re putting out … we have no All-Americans. You do the math on it.”

Well, there is much math to do. OU has lost 22 straight Bedlams in Stillwater. OSU has won 15 of the last 16 Bedlams and 42 of the last 47. The Cowboys’ overall lead in the Bedlam Series is 140-27-10.

In other words, OSU’s Bedlam domination is not new. One-sided Cowboy dual victories are not new. They’ve been going on since the 1930s. The Sooners have had occasional spurts of victory or competitiveness – the early 1950s under Port Robertson, the mid-1960s under Tommy Evans, the early 1980s under Stan Abel. As recently as 2013, the Sooners pulled out a 16-15 victory under coach Mark Cody, who was forced out a couple of years ago.

Give eight decades of Sooner wrestlers credit for this: they didn’t back down. They didn’t surrender. They kept wrestling. The arch-rivals met twice a year on the mat every season since 1948-49. Until now.