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As stated before, it is Gundy who is reluctant to schedule another likely L every season.  With the Sooners and Texas out of the way, this is OSU's chance to be top dog in the conference.
From the Sooner side, this game is much better than paying some FCS school $1-2 million to take a beat down and not much more risky.

I don't really have an opinion on whether or not it SHOULD be played. 

I'm a traditionalist and for me, regional rivalries are one of the best parts of college football.

But it's also not my place to tell fans of other teams what games they should care about.

CD just expressed, once again, that he doesn't care about the UGA-GaTech rivalry.  To me, it's one of those longstanding traditional rivalries that make college football great, but if the fans of the actual teams playing no longer care about them, then we're sort of missing the point, anyway.

I really don't care much about Georgia/Georgia Tech, but with old man ties to two old Big 8 rivals, I've always been interested in Bedlam
So, I'm in for personal selfish reasons

Why would you schedule an FCS school rather than a home-and-home with some other P5 that is similarly-tiered to Oklahoma State?  Tons of mid-tier teams in the PAC, B1G, and ACC to schedule, that aren't FCS or even G5.

I don't think Thumper was proposing an either-or situation there.
I also don't think that OU would want to schedule OSU every year in addition to the marquee OOC game.  Right now, scheduled marquee opponents are Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Clemson, and Michigan.
I don't think OU would want to add OSU in the same years those games are being played.  (Of course, some/most/all of those SEC games aren't going to be played, at least not as OOC games.)
I am not happy that OU has taken to regularly scheduling FCS programs.  But I think that there are multiple reasons why it is being done.  It's cheap.  It's a home game for the Norman merchants.  It's an automatic win.
But I'd much rather see us schedule a 2-and-1 with a school like Tulsa or SMU than go the FCS route.

no benefit for Georgia, but a benefit for Tech.  It's a game that has interest from Tech and fills their stadium which probably doesn't happen that often

it's a gift for little brother and it keeps some $$$ instate

some state legislators see the value in this

this is why FCS University of Northern Iowa either plays the Hawkeyes or the Cyclones each season

you show enuff did

Oklahoma State is not much challenge to OU.  And yet old codgers like Fearless still want to force the Sooners to play it.

Tech has three wins since 2000, all close and controversial.  UGA is a 35 point favorite this time around.

To me, it's just boring.

I wonder what will happen to the UGA series with Texas and OU.

I'd imagine we'll have to cancel it. I hope we get to see y'all some in SEC play, I was really looking forward to that home and home.