It’s Texas week, folks.
The Longhorns and the Razorbacks will soon likely be playing every year in the SEC. For now, though, part of what makes this old rivalry so special is what used to be.
For this special series this week here on Razorbacks Wire, we’re going to count down the top five Arkansas-Texas games in history (note: for our purposes, history goes back to 1960 as anything before that can be awfully difficult to find details about).
We counted down four excellent, excellent games.
Here is No. 1.
No. 8 Arkansas 14, No. 1 Texas 13
Well, were you surprised? Probably not.
Arkansas’ 1964 national title required a defeat of the Razorbacks most despised rival. This is the game that sealed the animosity in stone, at least, for Arkansas.
The ’64 season was one of relatively close calls for the Razorbacks up until that point. They didn’t look like a national champion should look, mostly. The Hogs beat Oklahoma State in the season opener, 14-10, but the Cowboys finished the year 4-6. An eventual 9-2 Tulsa team followed and Arkansas won that by nine. A 4-6 TCU team, 23 points. A 5-5 Baylor team, 11.
Not the stuff of legend.
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Then there was Texas. The No. 1 team in the nation, the Longhorns had gone 11-0 the season before and were 4-0 heading into Fayetteville. And this, for the youngsters, was not Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. This was plain ol’ Razorback Stadium in the podunk town of Fayetteville. Little Rock was the hub of the state, after all.
It seems wasteful to spend words walking through the game as we have earlier in the countdown.
But if you want to relive it, the greatest Arkansas win over Texas in history, we recommend right here.
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