Daily Bullets: How a preseason meeting set up OSU’s year

Football

On how a preseason meeting set the tone for this year. (NewsOK)

Is Bedlam the most successful rivalry of the last five years? (PFB)

I’m not sure I agree with Berry leaving Texas off the Cotton Bowl list but here are his bowl projections. (NewsOK)

Calvin Barnett on Glenn Specner: “We don’t walk around cocky or things like that and it starts with him.” (Tulsa World)

45,000 Christmas lights set to the Penn State fight song? Does Robert Allen do this for OSU? (CBS Sports)

Good stuff here on how much better the QBs were OSU faced in 2011. (NewsOK)

Saturday could be like the ice bowl. (Tulsa World)

Chatmon thinks OSU could end up in the Cotton. I don’t. (ESPN)

Average score of Bedlam? 30-9. (CRFF)

Kye Staley is awesome. And old. (Tulsa World)

Chuck Moore: “Oklahoma has a ton of tradition and has been good for a long time. Hopefully 50 from years now, people will say the same about Oklahoma State.” (ESPN)

The Big 12 probably isn’t getting two BCS bids. (B/R)

Mike Gundy doesn’t see Bedlam as a hated rivalry. How much is this going to be talked about? (NewsOK)

Dana will be back in 2014. (CBS Sports)

Stoops: “Well, over the last many years, I’d rather have the big picture, but this week, I’d rather be where they’re at.” (Yahoo)

Revisiting the WVU loss. Yay! (B/R)

In case you were worried about Tyreek Hill’s commitment to OSU. (CRFF)

OSU has some legit seniors. Gonna miss a ton of these guys next year. (NewsOK)

Why Gus should jump for Texas. (Sports Illustrated)

Hoops

Nik Stauskas threw his shoe into the Duke crowd. (Yahoo)

Jay Bilas ranks Oklahoma State No. 6. Says it is more athletic than you’d think. (ESPN)

The Big 12-SEC Challenge should be a lot better than it is. (PFB)

Maybe the Big 12 will be more competitive than we thought? Nahh. (Rush the Court)

Other

The World Cup pots are confusing. (Big Lead)

One of my favorite GIFs ever. (Deadspin)

Newspaper columnists are old. Via RJ Young. (Gawker)

Some encouragement for entrepreneurs. (John.do)

What happens to a YouTube video when you upload it 1,000 times? (Digg)

This looks good.

Hmm..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xa1S44iLU

Iron Bowl gets the Rinaldi treatment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35n5ugAVC60

I think we’re going to make 10+ videos from this Baylor game (I’m fine with it). Oklahoma State might have a chance because of the weather.

What a comeback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLWxcF7jCU