Bedlam 2011: This Game Needs a Name
This year’s edition of Bedlam is so big that the nickname Bedlam just won’t do.
This game needs a name.
While every Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game is a big deal, this season is setting up for a monumental showdown. The Sooners are No. 3 in the initial BCS rankings that came out Sunday. The Cowboys are No. 4. Even though both teams have hurdles between here and their Dec. 3 game, the chance of an undefeated showdown is high.
What grand fun it will be.
There will be so much on the line. A Big 12 championship. A trip to the BCS national championship game. Bragging rights like never before. It would be Bedlam, a pseudo-Big 12 title game and a pseudo-national semifinal all wrapped up into one.
All of that is why this momentous game needs a special name.
We’ve come up with a couple possibilities here at headquarters — Bedlam Bonanza and Bedlammageddon among them — but we want to hear from you.
What should this year’s edition of Bedlam be called?
You can post your suggestions in the comments section below or email them to me at jcarlson@opubco.com. We are going to take submissions, narrow down the choices, then let you, our readers and fans, vote on which name you want.
Our “Name the Game” Contest starts now!
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Comments
Are you that vapid and that devoid of ideas that this is the best topic you can come up with?
I’m sure you’ll have plenty of readers who weren’t even born when Barry Sanders was at OSU send you a litany of clever ideas for a game that already has an idiotic name.
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JC:
This was an idea generated by our entire sports team, so there are plenty of folks here who think this is a fun thing to do. And by the response that I’m already getting, it seems like there other folks who feel the same way.
Sorry you find it so vapid.
Jenni
Suggestions for 2011 football Bedlam game:
Bedlam Slam – National Championship Semifinal
Mother of all Bedlam!
Bedlam – Land Run Frontier Days, Winner stakes claim!
Bedlam 2011 – National Championship Edition
How about Bedlam 2011!!!
How stupid is your entire sports staff to think that this game needs a special name. IT’S BEDLAM, IT WILL ALWAYS BE BEDLAM!!!
More proof that the daily ok, is a peace of trash newspaper!
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David:
And yet you’re taking your time to comment on a blog on our website. Hmm …
Jenni
I would love to see a video montage of pre-game Bedlam hype from prior years… then have some video graphic effect that blows those to pieces as this year’s game takes the hype to an entirely new level. Sorry, I don’t have a good name, though. (Of course – let’s keep having both programs WIN first!)
Need a name…. How about BEDLAMITE! Cause its gonna be explosive atmosphere if they are both undefeated and both offenses are explosive with big plays and high scores. Plus its not for the weak of heart, only true fans of both schools will be able to handle it.
Or you could go with BETLAM! WINNER TAKE ALL! With such big hype and a national stage on hand for possibly two undefeated teams the winner gets a date in the National Title Game the other goes home wondering what it could of been.
Either one would be good, Plus JC I love your columns and think Tramel’s the man.
I see that this ridiculous idea has been moved to blog status.
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Keith:
Actually, it started as a blog, then became a column. Now, it lives in both forms. 
Jenni
One of the reasons OSU will struggle to become a house-hold name when talking about top 10 programs in college football is because they do exactly the opposite of what Barry Sanders did when he scored. They do not “act like they’ve been here before” (even if they havent). You wouldnt see OU or Texas changing uniforms every game and you wouldnt dare see the Red River Rivalry called something “extra” when both come in undefeated. It might make for entertaining reading but changing the name and/or uniforms only cheapens any tradition that is already there.
Gosh, this is lame. I’m tired of the hype already and the game is still a month away. Try as you might NewsOK, this game will never match “The Game of Century” (OU-Nebraska 1971 and 1987.
bed·lam
n.
1. A place or situation of extreme noisy uproar and confusion.
2. often Bedlam Archaic An insane asylum.
What else is needed? “Bedlam” says it all
Extremely Noisy
Sometimes Confusing
Always Insane
How about BOB? Bedlam Of Bedlams.