Texas-OU

Will This Conference Clustereff Be Good for College Football?

By Richie Whitt
Sep 20, 2011

It's not a matter of if, but merely when. The Big 12 is kaput. When the Board of Regents at OU and Texas yesterday empowered their respective school presidents (David Boren and Williams Powers) to explore new conference affiliations, it officially signaled the beginning of the end for the Irving-based...
Screw Baseball, Mark Cuban Wants to Own College Football

By Richie Whitt
Dec 16, 2010

College football's biggest division is popular, yet ultimately broken. The latest example - one that hits close to home - is TCU having a 12-0 record yet 0 chance of winning a national championship. Every year the BCS attempts to pair the two best teams against each other in the title...
OU 28, Texas 20: My Top 10 Observations

By Richie Whitt
Oct 4, 2010

10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I'm certain Texas was absolutely gutted -- in emotion and field-position -- by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1999. Seems like we're...
The Top 5 Best Games in the History of Texas-OU

By Richie Whitt
Sep 28, 2010

Here's hoping that Saturday's Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year's yawny 16-13 Longhorns' victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I'd be shocked if...
Texas Fight 16, Boomer Sooner 13. Yuck.

By Richie Whitt
Oct 19, 2009

A tie may be like kissing your sister, but what Texas pulled off Saturday in the Cotton Bowl was akin to drunken, relapse sex with your ex. Sloppy. Ugly. Guilty. But yet, in the end somehow satisfying. A combined 29 points. Eight turnovers. Key plays made by two different No. 12s for the...
Texas to Get Revenge on OU for Last Year's Loss. Wait ... What?

By Richie Whitt
Oct 15, 2009

Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated national computer ranking,...
Scenes from the Shootout

By Patrick Michels
Oct 11, 2008

Hillary Whitehead While we wait for all the Longhorns and Sooners fans to clear out of town, it's worth revisiting the scene from outside the Cotton Bowl this morning, where our photographer Hillary Whitehead trained her lens on some of the best Longhorn hairdos and Sooner cheerleader routines before the...
Texas Fight 45, Boomer Sooner 35

By Richie Whitt
Oct 11, 2008

Just watched "OU Sucks!" beat "Texas Sucks!" by 10 at this jumpin' joint on Lemmon. Don't know who, for sure, is the better quarterback -- Sam Bradford or Colt McCoy. But I do know a couple things: 1. McCoy's roomate -- Jordan Shipley -- was the best player on the...
Texas-OU: Cue the Goose Bumps

By Richie Whitt
Oct 8, 2008

If this doesn’t get you ready for Saturday then nothing can. In fact, Longhorn, Sooner or otherwise, you could probably hear that music at a Briss and bolt out the door ready to tackle somebody. For more Texas-OU inspiration I wrote a column in a fancy advertising section of this...