Could the Red River Rivalry become a home and home series?

There is an idea floating around about making the Red River Rivalry a home and home series for the next two years.

Since the beginning of the Red River Rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners, the game has been mostly played at the Cotton Bowl. In 2018 they played the Big 12 Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington as the lone matchup outside of Dallas since 1923.

On November 17, 1923 the two teams met in Austin, Texas where the Longhorns defeated the Sooners 26-14. The year prior the game was played in Norman, Oklahoma where again the Longhorns won that matchup 32-7. It has almost been 100 years since these two teams visited the opposing teams city for a college football game. For the next two seasons, it could happen again.

If the Longhorns travel to Norman this season they will travel to Oklahoma twice and Baton Rouge for their matchup with LSU. Other road games will include two trips to Kansas, a trip to Lubbock and hopefully a return trip to Arlington for the Big 12 Championship game.

Provided they play the 2021 Oklahoma game at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, the home schedule includes games against Louisiana, Rice, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech. The home schedule in 2021 seems a bit lacking but adding the Sooners to the schedule would only improve it.

Given the history of this game, the hope would be to play this game at the Cotton Bowl venue. Their 120-year history has mostly been played in Dallas and it just doesn’t feel the same if they were to move the game to a home and home series for the next couple of years. However, in the currently climate everything is on the table for college football for the foreseeable future.