The Texas Longhorns earned all the bragging rights on Saturday in their 34-2 win over the Oklahoma Sooners. It was the second blowout win in three years for the Longhorns over the Sooners.
After the game, Texas players took a Longhorns flag and planted it at midfield of the Cotton Bowl. But it wasn’t any old flag plant, they planted the flag from through a Sooners jersey. That jersey just so happened to be former Heisman winner Baker Mayfield’s.
Anthony Hill posted a picture of the torn jersey with the caption, “Texas fears nobody.” That’s a call back to Danny Stutsman’s pregame speech and the t-shirts that followed, where he said, “Oklahoma only fears God, and Texas fears Oklahoma.”
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On Saturday, the Longhorns’ defense dominated the inexperienced Oklahoma offense, holding them to just 237 total yards. They were not afraid of the Sooners in the least.
After Tampa Bay’s win over New Orleans, ESPN’s Jenna Laine asked Mayfield about the incident.
Mayfield said, “Just a kid from Austin, Texas that went to Oklahoma and won his last two Red River games and being rent free in their heads for almost a decade.”
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Any question about where the Red River Rivalry stands among the best in college football should be answered by everything that’s happened in the aftermath of the last two. This game generates so much heat and the players play right into it.
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