Patrick Conn – The Rivalry
What makes college football so great? The heated rivalries. Once upon a time the burnt orange faithful witnessed two classic rivalries year in and year out. The Lone Star Showdown and the Red River Rivalry. The former has since been taken away and that leaves the bitter Texas-OU rivalry as their lone one. It goes much deeper than the football field. These two fanbases absolutely cannot stand each other. In recruiting, basketball, baseball, softball. If it involves these two schools, then you best believe that the trash talk will commence.
Not to mention it goes beyond the two universities. The State of Texas against Oklahoma. It is a border war between the two. There is absolutely no love loss there. Oct. 10th in the year 1900, the birth of the rivalry saw the Texas Longhorns enforce their will against Oklahoma. The Longhorns won 28-2 on that day. In fact, it wouldn’t be until 1905 when Oklahoma would come out on top. That would be their eighth meeting as they played twice a year in some cases.
While Texas has the edge in the series, Oklahoma has owned the series for the better part of the last decade. It’s all about bragging rights at the point and my favorite tradition is seeing which fanbase has the ability to trash talk for the next year — or at least until the Big 12 Championship game — if both teams make it to Arlington, Texas.