Written by Jake Trotter at ESPN.com
There’s Baker Mayfield and there’s another quarterback in the Sooner State who is 22-6 as a starter.
And among all 4,000-yard passers last season, he threw the fewest interceptions.
Yet as elite as Mason Rudolph has been, the Oklahoma State junior has been overshadowed by his counterpart from Norman.
Mayfield, OU’s popular, viral star, hasn’t just delivered back-to-back Big 12 titles for the Sooners on the way to a pair of top-five finishes in the Heisman voting, he has also gotten the best of the Cowboys.
And so far, of Rudolph, too.
But with Oklahoma State and Oklahoma each primed to open in the top 10 of the preseason polls, the Cowboys figure to have a shot at Bedlam redemption when Mayfield and the Sooners travel to Stillwater in early November.
Rudolph will have one last opportunity to finally break out of Mayfield’s shadow on a national stage.
“We’re definitely aware. They’re about an hour down the road. That comes with the territory, comes with Bedlam,” Rudolph said in an interview with ESPN.com, when asked about facing inevitable comparisons to Mayfield going into Bedlam.
“But I’m a great quarterback and I think I do a lot of things that he can’t do. And he scrambles around and shows the athleticism that I can’t always do. We’re two different players on two different teams in two different situations. All I can do is control myself. I could care less about what he’s doing. I’m trying to take care of my business and put my guys in a great position to win. That’s all I can do.”
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