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More OSU-TU games. Less South Alabama.
Published: 9/15/2010 2:21 PM
Last Modified: 9/15/2010 2:21 PM

Tulsa and Oklahoma State are meeting on a football field for the first time since 2004. They should play each other every season, period.

This is why: On Saturday night at Boone Pickens Stadium, there may come a point in the game when OSU receiver Tracy Moore will look across the line of scrimmage and see his first cousin, Dewitt Jennings, a freshman defensive back at TU.

This kind of stuff has been happening in the turnpike rivalry for years. Remember when R.W. McQuarters and Marshall Gordon were in the same situation?

You don’t get family feuds when OSU plays a nonconference opponent like (ugh!) South Alabama.

“I am looking forward to it,” Moore said when asked about facing his cousin, who is third on TU’s depth chart at the spur position.

Moore said Jennings has two younger brothers. They all used to put on pads and play two-on-two ball at venues much more raw than Boone Pickens Stadium. “No grass,” Moore said. “Just straight dirt and rocks.”

The boys’ moms are sisters. Moore’s mother, Jeannette, said she and her sister have been talking for years about the day when their sons might meet on a college field.

“Can you believe this?” she said. “It’s already here. They are getting ready to play against each other. We were hoping they would (go to the same school and) play with each other, but we knew it would be one way or the other.”

They are getting t-shirts made for the occasion. “Half OSU and half TU,” Jeannette said. “You will see us with the orange and blue.”

Someone asked the boys’ grandfather, Jackie Jackson, whose side he would be sitting on Saturday night in Stillwater. His answer was “in the end zone.” Well played, grandpa.

Jackson was named after Jackie Robinson, but that’s not the only sports connection in Moore’s family tree. Check out Thursday’s Tulsa World for a closer examination of Moore’s bloodline.



Reader Comments 11 Total
what now brown cow (2 years ago)
bs, i see where twho sold 800 tickets for the game saturday. when we show up at their place, we will fund the program for another couple years. its simple MH just say no. until winning is worth something even close to loseing the game. no thanks.
pokesn09 (2 years ago)
Convince the Tulsa fans of this......they're the ones who sent back 3000 unsold tickets, out of 5000..(60%)

Not much of a beloved rivalry.
pokesn09 (2 years ago)
And yes, the tickets are outrageously priced.

GO POKES!!!
BLA (2 years ago)
what now brown cow...did you learn that clever "twho" in your kindergarten classes at OSU. Bet you couldn't even pass remedial Calculus at TU loser. Go back to your farm and shovel animal dung. We all know the real reason OSU doesn't play TU every year is because they're afraid to lose.
A $90 ticket for any regular season college football game is about $70 too much. A game should be competitively priced in regards to other forms of entertainment and should cost about as much as a round of golf or a family trip to the movie theater, minus the $12 popcorn.
hawkdaddy (2 years ago)
I'm going to the TU-Notre Dame game because I couldn't afford the OSU tickets. Not really, I'm going to both because most TU grads can handle the dough. The actual reason for a poor showing from TU fans is there is such a lack of interest in this TU team that only the hard cores will follow them. It's too bad. It will be fun to celebrate when TU pastes the Cowpatties.
hawkdaddy (2 years ago)
By the way, thanks Jimmie for sticking up for TU fans but they're just spoiled because you can buy a season ticket at TU for the price of one game in Dirtywater.
husker (2 years ago)
T.U sent back 3,000 tickets at 90.00 a pop?????For 2 unranked teams and the home team doesnt have anyone at all on the all-conferece first team???Both teams are horrible and i doubt they schedule again past next year if T.U. travels that well.And the 800 they sold is abouut right for a t.u. home game.
MJ17 (2 years ago)
The truth is, these two teams shouldn't play each other very often at all. O-State is in a lose-lose situation -- if they win, they're supposed to and if they lose it's a disaster. Honestly, it's a much bigger win for TU than it ever is for OSU -- and that's not saying anything negative about TU. That's just the way it is for virtually any BCS school vs. any non-qualifier.

Besides, I like to root for both schools ... I'd rather not have one of them saddled with a loss this weekend.

Perhaps the better answer is for TU and OSU to find or create some other regional rivalries ... Arkansas could be interesting as could Colorado State.
BLA (2 years ago)
Why pay $90 and have to go to Stillwater of all places. I've been every time the two have played since 1992 (with the exception of this year). Different priorities and I don't get to make many road trips to games anymore because of family, but I chose the Notre Dame game this year. How many times will I ever be able to say I saw TU play Notre Dame in one of the games most historic venues. Its like getting to see the Red Sox and Yankees in Fenway Park. There's more to it than just the game and honestly, I don't like Stillwater, it smells funny, and orange isn't all that pleasant to look at and burn your retinas for 5 hours.
G-Block (2 years ago)
With the distintegration of the Big XII, the integration of the conference round-robin schedule, OSU should be selective who they choose to play for their non-conference schedule. Should Tulsa be in the mix? Probably. It makes sense geographically and economically.

But for whatever reason, I find it hard to get real excited about playing TU every year. It's like kissing your cousin.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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