When it comes to the Bedlam football rivalry ending, coach Mike Gundy adamant that 'Oklahoma State has no part in this'

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said Tuesday that any discussion about his school's role in the future of the Bedlam rivalry with Oklahoma was «childish.»

Athletic directors for both schools told the Action Network on Monday that the series officially would be ending when Oklahoma departs for the SEC.

«We don't have any openings to play them,» Oklahoma State AD Chad Weiberg said. «We're full. Unless there are significant undertakings to make the game happen, it can't happen.»

Weiberg's counterpart at Oklahoma, Joe Castiglione, said that the Cowboys had opted not to continue with the series.

«Oklahoma State has shown no interest to schedule any future games in football, so we're moving on,» he said.

On Tuesday, Gundy told reporters at Cowboys practice that while he likes Castiglione, «We've got to quit beating around the bush and call it the way it is.»

«Bedlam is history, we all know that. We've known that,» Gundy said, «because OU chose to follow Texas and the money to the SEC. It's OK. So now, we're having what I think are childish discussions, in my opinion, over something that's done. And I would like to make this the last statement that I have because I have no hard feelings.

»But what's going on now is almost a situation with a husband and a wife, or a girlfriend and a boyfriend when you know you're dead wrong and you try to turn the table and make them think they're wrong, when Oklahoma State has no part in this."

Later Tuesday, Castiglione told ESPN that Oklahoma has slightly more nonconference scheduling flexibility than Oklahoma State, but he hasn't given up entirely on a future Bedlam series.

«I think it will come back at some point in the 2030s,» he said.

Castiglione added that the Sooners are talking to