Air goes out of OSU-Air Force football series
Published: 7/12/2012 1:11 PM
Last Modified: 7/12/2012 1:11 PM
The Oklahoma State-Air Force football series has been grounded.
Air Force senior associate athletic director Jim Trego told the Gazette in Colorado Springs that the schools mutually agreed to drop two scheduled meetings. OSU athletic director Mike Holder confirmed the news Thursday.
OSU was originally scheduled to visit Air Force in 2015 and Air Force was scheduled to make a trip to Stillwater in 2016.
Like other Big 12 schools, OSU had to juggle future nonconference schedules because the Big 12 replaced an eight-game league schedule with a nine-game round-robin league schedule. Games against nonconference opponents had to be dropped or postponed.
The bad news for fans: You’ll miss a good road trip. For a lot of reasons, any game played at a service academy stadium is cooler than Fonzie.
The good news for OSU coaches: The schedule got less risky.
Air Force is pesky enough to beat anybody on any given Saturday. Air Force played at Oklahoma in 2010 and the Sooners held on for a 27-24 victory.
Minus Air Force, OSU’s three nonconference opponents in 2015 are Central Arkansas, Texas-San Antonio and Central Michigan. The threat level is considerably less than orange.
Written by
Jimmie Tramel
Sports Writer
