Texas routs Oklahoma in Red River Rivalry, but bigger tests remain
From the first drive Saturday inside Dallas’ Cotton Bowl, the college football rivalry that has rarely played to script again looked to be veering away from expectations.
From the first drive Saturday inside Dallas’ Cotton Bowl, the college football rivalry that has rarely played to script again looked to be veering away from expectations.
Three plays into the annual Red River Rivalry, Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers threw an interception. First-ranked and undefeated Texas was on its back foot against Oklahoma, the team the Longhorns were expected to beat handily.
In previous years, when the higher-ranked team often left the Cotton Bowl attempting to understand how it had somehow lost, such a start would have portended an ominous end.
But not this year.
The Longhorns went on to beat the 18th-ranked Sooners, 34-3, by rarely making such mistakes again.
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