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THE “SUPERMAN” PLAY | OCT. 6, 2001 | OKLAHOMA 14, TEXAS 3
The Sooners were clinging to a 7-3 lead with two minutes left as Texas quarterback Chris Simms set up under center with his own goal line breathing down his back. Roy Williams lined up between the left tackle and guards as he was about to shoot the gap and change Red River Showdown history forever. Williams leaped across the line to deflect Simms’ pass, which fell into the arms of linebacker Teddy Lehman. Lehman then had the easiest touchdown of his career. By the time he caught the ball, he was already in the end zone and gave the Sooners the game-clinching score.
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SHIPLEY TURNS THE TABLES | OCT. 11, 2008 | TEXAS 45, OKLAHOMA 35
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WILLIAMS GOES ALL THE WAY | OCTOBER 13, 2012 | OKLAHOMA 63, TEXAS 21
The Sooners were leading 14-3 early in the second quarter, and in a matchup of the nation’s No. 1 and 5 teams, Oklahoma was poised to pull away — until Texas receiver Jordan Shipley turned the game on its head. On the ensuing kickoff after Oklahoma scored its second touchdown, Shipley fielded the ball at his own 4-yard line and broke though the coverage to sprint up the right sideline, putting the Longhorns right back into a game they’d eventually win against the nation’s No. 1 team.
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Sophomore linebacker Dominique Alexander and former Sooner defensive tackle Jordan Phillips tackle a Texas ball carrier on Oct. 11 at the Cotton Bowl. The Sooners beat the Longhorns 31-26.
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QUENTIN GRIFFIN: RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME | OCT. 12, 2002 | OKLAHOMA 35, TEXAS 24
As the Sooners were trailing 14-3 at the start of the second half, Quentin Griffin’s spectacular performance led Oklahoma to a comeback victory—and it wasn’t just his massive rushing yards that helped his team. Griffin finished with 250 yards on 32 carries, but his biggest play came early in the fourth quarter. Linebacker Teddy Lehman intercepted a tipped Chris Simms pass and the Sooners began their drive, trailing 17-14. As Oklahoma drove down the field, quarterback Nate Hybl connected with receiver Will Peoples on a 4-yard pass. As Peoples was headed toward the end zone, Texas linebacker Reed Boyd knocked the ball loose at the two-yard line, threatening the Sooners’ growing momentum. Griffin was there and scooped up the loose ball to give the Sooners a 21-17 lead—a lead they would not relinquish.
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ALEX ROSS: TO THE HOUSE | OCT. 11, 2014 | OKLAHOMA 31, TEXAS 26
On a day when the Sooner offense could muster only 232 yards, Alex Ross gave the Sooners a touchdown before quarterback Trevor Knight had even taken a snap. Texas drove down the field to the Oklahoma 11-yard line before its drive stalled, forcing the Longhorns to kick a 28yard field goal. On the ensuing kickoff at the 8:16 mark in the first quarter, Alex Ross did what he was known best for — he returned a kick. Ross fielded the ball at his own 9-yard line with a convoy of blockers. After that, he was only touched once, when Texas kicker Nick Rose took a diving attempt at Ross’ ankles at the 35-yard line. Ross broke from the hole his blockers gave him and used his speed to scamper 91 yards to negate any energy the Longhorns had after scoring first. The score proved to be vital during a late Texas rally.
Oklahoma scored early in the 2012 edition of the Red River Showdown, but after the extra point was returned by the Longhorns for two points and a Texas punt pinned the Sooners at their own 5-yard line, the game’s momentum was in the balance. That is, until Damien Williams broke a run that went almost goal line to goal line. The Sooners faced a 2nd-and-10 in the shadow of the Texas end zone with Longhorn fans in full throat. Landry Jones handed the the ball off Williams out of the I-formation, and Williams broke through the middle to the right sideline, where he shifted between two Texas defenders before escaping to take it 95 yards to jumpstart what would be a blowout win.
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hile some Sooners prepare for their last game against Texas, others are looking forward to their first. At least eight players on the offensive side of the ball are expected to make their first appearance against the Longhorns Saturday. Junior cornerback Zack Sanchez will live the experience for the third time on Saturday, but he said there’s nothing he can do to prepare the younger players for what to expect. “I just told them it’s going to be a crazy atmosphere,” Sanchez said. “It’s like opening up gifts on Christmas morning when you’re a kid. That’s the closest comparison I can think of.” “It’s just a good feeling going out there to play in front of 100,000 people and knowing the whole world is watching you play in one of the biggest rivalry games in college football history.” Junior linebacker Jordan Evans will also be making his third appearance at the Cotton Bowl and his second as a starter. His father, Scott, played defensive tackle for the Sooners from 1987-1990
but could offer little advice about how to handle the atmosphere. “Freshman year, (my dad) told me, preparing for Texas, you can’t really explain it until you do it,” Evans said. “I started on kickoff coverage, and they did a reverse, and I got crackbacked. I get to my phone after the game and (it’s a text from my dad) saying ‘welcome to OU-Texas.” Redshirt freshman Mark Andrews grew up an OU fan despite hailing from Arizona and said that he has dreamed about playing in this game for a long time. “I grew up watching this game every year, and it’s got so much tradition to it,” said Andrews, a tight end. “It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do.”
“I GREW UP WATCHING THIS GAME EVERY YEAR, AND IT’S GOT SO MUCH TRADITION TO IT.” MARK ANDREWS, REDSHIRT FRESHMAN
Junior cornerback Zack Sanchez runs over to celebrate with fans after the Sooners’ victory over Texas in the 2014 Red River Showdown. The Sooners beat the Longhorns 31-26. Sophomore guard Jonathan Alvarez is another one of the eight players expected to make his Red River Rivalry debut on Saturday. Alvarez, a Mesquite, Texas, native didn’t grow up a fan of either team but was surrounded by the fanfare in the halls of his high school. “When I was younger, my cousin went to UT. So that side of the family was all UT, and that’s all I knew growing up,” Alvarez said. “Where I’m from, you walk around the school and every five steps you look up and you see something that says ‘Texas,’” Alvarez said. “You see a hat or a polo. It’s just something you grow accustomed to.” Alvarez isn’t going in blind. Senior center Ty Darlington has played in this game three times already and has plenty of wisdom to pass on to his youthful offensive line. “I told them to just understand what you’re getting into,” Darlington said. “When you’re in a game like this—a rivalry game—records go out the window. The team that we’re going to get Saturday in the Cotton Bowl is not going to be the same team that played TCU this past Saturday.” Darlington and several other current Sooners
learned that lesson the hard way in 2013. Oklahoma entered the game 5-0 and had a 14-point favorite over a 2-3 Texas team. The Longhorns won the game 36-20 in what became former head coach Mack Brown’s final Red River
Rivalry game. “This game makes or breaks Darlington will be looking a season for both teams.” for his third win over Texas on Saturday, and he knows what it will take to get it. Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu “It’s going to be a dogfight, and that’s what we have to prepare for,” Darlington said.
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he one and only Red River Rivalry is just around the corner, which means many OU students are making their way to Dallas this weekend. For all things food, be sure to check out the 2015 Big Tex Choice Award Winners. This year’s winner for “Best Tasting” was Fernie’s Holy Moly Carrot Cake Roly by Christi Erpillo. Fair-goers older than 21 will be able to try the item dubbed “Most Creative,” the smoky bacon margarita by Isaac Rousso. A few other new foods to the fair this year are the deep-fried cheeseburger basket, fried kettle corn, milk chocolate bacon on a stick and the pumpkin spice doughnut chip, according to the fair’s website.
The events and live music listed below are not all of the events taking place at the Texas State Fair. Additional information, including a complete schedule, is available at bigtex.com. The fairground gates will open at 7 a.m. Friday and Saturday and close at 10 p.m. State fair building and exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, according to the fair’s website. Tickets are $18 for general admission, $14 for children under 48 inches and senior citizens, and free for children under 2-yearsold. Tickets can be purchased online or at North Texas Kroger Food Stores. Food and Ride coupons are 50 cents each. Parking in official state fair lots is $15 per space.
SCHEDULE: LIVE MUSIC Friday: Blues band Prophets and Outlaws will perform a free concert from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the Chevrolet Main Stage. The band’s music ranges from blues to rock ‘n’ roll, according to the band’s website.
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right in the eyes of God. was Vince Young, whose B e f o re h i s i l l n e s s, younger clone, Jerrod h e l i v e d h a p p i l y i n Heard, was suiting up Oklahoma’s shadow — i n b u r n t o ra n g e b e comfortably near, but fore Texas’ pretty timely not quite at the top of death. The resemblance the Big 12. Texas was was uncanny, so long known as a charitable as you squinted your man, even gift-wrapping eyes and lowered your the Sooners five-straight expectations. wins from 2000-04. The two even found Baylor and Texas A&M common ground in the were incredibly thankful ‘13’ on Heard’s jersey, when Tex handed them about as high as Young Robert Griffin III and can count. Johnny Manziel. Texas spent Legend has it, much of his Our View is Texas once tried l at e r l i f e d e the majority to recruit Kevin lusional, opinion of Durant himself even losing The Daily’s as a defensive seven-member to O klahoma back. editorial board State in his final Although weeks. Texas ended up His condipawning all four of his tion worsened to the national title trophies point Sarah McLachlan and both Heismans for took pity and produced booze to numb the pain a commercial featuron gameday, his only re- ing hungr y assistant maining possession, The coaches. Longhorn Network, will Tex is truly now in the be donated to Comedy arms of an angel. Central — although Tex was surrounded by there won’t be a marked family at the time of his change in programming. death, including life partTexas enjoyed watch- ners DeLoss Dodds and ing many football greats Dan Beebe, who were reduring its lifetime, al- sponsible for most of the though very few were ac- showers of undeserved tually on his sideline. respect he received. Among one of the Noticeably absent at best to play in Austin the time of death were
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step-father Steve Patterson, who singlehandedly RKO’d Texas’ health into the ground, and son David Ash. Ash, whom Tex always insisted on calling a “quarterback,” does not remember his time at Texas or what he had for breakfast this morning. Texas is preceded in death by Oklahoma legend Darrell K. Royal; Case McCoy, who was ushered into the next life by Eric Striker back in 2013; his lovable uncle, Nebraska; and Charlie Strong’s chances of winning a championship. The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a GoFundMe page that has been set up for former Texas assistant coaches who can no longer afford to pay for their own meals.
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ooner fans: It wasn’t easy losing so consistently. We had to get truly creative to face you at 1-4. Opening with a quarterback who hails from a town less than four percent the size of our student body? Done. Shanking an extra point at home when our kicker can actually connect from 80 yards out? Nailed it. Fumbling a snap to give Oklahoma State a field goal in the final seconds? We did that, too. It required ample creativity to enter this rivalry matchup with the lowest ranking in 59 years. We had the best minds of our generation exploring new ways to screw up a punt. That’s how committed we are to embarrassing you this weekend. In the spirit of Donald Trump, we’re going all out. We thought: if we’re going to lose football games, then dammit they’re going to be the most amazing, jaw-dropping, confounding losses we can find. Nearly every team in the country will lose this year, but Texas’ will stand out. It’s working, too. Even as we sit at the bottom of the Big 12, all anyone can talk
about is Texas. Can anyone even remember the last time OU lost? It’s not that it hasn’t happened recently (as Clemson can attest). It’s just that no one cares. The real ruse, though, is that we lost this all on purpose. When Case McCoy and our unranked Longhorns thumped you in 2013, it was embarrassing, but that team was 3-2 and went to a bowl game. Imagine how bad it will look on Saturday when your Top 10 team loses to a squad too busy releasing rap singles and tweeting to even hear the plays. It will be the biggest embarrassment since your parents told their friends where you were going to college. We’ve created every last reason for you to win-short of our players assaulting women to kick even more guys out of the program. We leave that to Frank Shannon and your team. But can you handle us? You have a new starting quarterback again, Baker Mayfield, a former Texas Tech walk-on who knows us well. The transfer didn’t surprise us. It’s a long-standing OU tradition to recruit rejects from Texas schools. Lucky for Mayfield, he
joins the legacy of NFL “greats” Sam Bradford and DeMarco Murray. On that note, Philadelphia wishes you warned it about Sooner players’ NFL shelf life. Really, Murray leaves Texas and drops to 1.6 yards per carry? And Chip Kelly expects players’ ACLs to last longer than three years. But we understand that the Oklahoma medical landscape-like its racial and gender stereotypes landscape-is about half a century behind the times. To m e e t y o u w h e r e Norman seems to be in time, we compiled our worst record since 1956. For context, that was before the Civil Rights movement peaked but after Brown v. Board of Education. Yes, the courts did order integration of schools. We invite Oklahoma to join the rest of the country in accepting it. Coming to Dallas must be like time traveling to the future for your fans. With world-class museums, galleries, fashion, and architecture, Dallas offers plenty of cultural enrichment. Then again, finding a Sooner fan in a museum or art exhibit is like finding an OU SAE at a civil rights
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march. The only explanation is that he must be really lost. P e r h a p s i t ’s f i t t i n g we sunk to our 1956 record-the last Red River R i v a l r y m a t c h b e f o re Darrell K. Royal got the heck out of Oklahoma and found success here. This time, we’ve got a coach, and we’re sticking by him. Your famous coaches are always welcome in Texas, t h o u g h. May b e B a r r y Switzer and Bob Stoops could transfer to the Huntsville Correctional Facility. There, they could continue their favorite hobby: watching over felons. In this forward-thinking, innovative state, NASA scientists in Houston recently made a discovery. On September 28, 2015, the team discovered water on the surface of Mars. While they could not confirm whether that meant the existence of life outside of Earth, researchers did announce one definitive conclusion: OU still sucks.
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ADVANTAGE: OKLAHOMA I
t’s that time of the year. The Red River Showdown is Saturday, and we took a look at how Oklahoma and Texas match up on the field.
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OKLAHOMA RUNNING GAME VS TEXAS FRONT
OKLAHOMA PASSING ATTACK VS TEXAS SECONDARY A year ago this would have been a much different matchup, but with Oklahoma switching to the air raid offense, the Sooners shouldn’t have a problem against Texas. The Longhorns were exposed by TCU last weekend when the Horned Frogs hung half-a-hundred on them in just three quarters. Baker Mayfield and company should be able to replicate that game plan and put plenty of points on the board to give OU’s defense a nice cushion to work with.
Advantage : Oklahoma TEXAS PASSING ATTACK VS OKLAHOMA SECONDARY
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Junior linebacker Dominique Alexander assists senior cornerback Julian Wilson in taking down a Longhorn during the 2014 Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl. The Sooners defeated the Longhorns 31-26.
Jerrod Heard presents a unique problem to the Sooner defense, but it’s not because of his arm. Heard’s completion percentage is just 55 percent, and he only has two touchdown tosses through the first three games. The Longhorns are also missing a formidable receiver that would challenge Oklahoma’s secondary. With Jordan Thomas playing well and Zack Sanchez seemingly healthy after a bout with tendonitis, OU’s secondary should be able to limit Heard through the air. Of course, the added wrinkle is that Texas’ play caller, Jay Norvell, spent seven years in Norman before making the trek south. If Norvell has any tricks up his sleeve, this could turn into a very different matchup.
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Advantage : Oklahoma The Sooners have played their best defense this season against running teams, which does not bode well for the Longhorns. Heard has been a difference maker with his legs, but Oklahoma’s 3-4 defense has proven stout against other running quarterbacks like Tennessee’s Joshua Dobbs. Outside linebackers Eric Striker and Devante Bond will be getting after Heard and Texas’ offensive line for all four quarters. Still, this is the battle that Texas must win if it’s going to beat Oklahoma. UT will need to play better defense than expected and then hope to ride Heard’s legs to victory. Beyond that, it could get ugly in Dallas.
As bad as Texas has been against the pass, they’ve been almost worse against the run. The Longhorns rank No. 108 nationally against rushing attacks, surrendering 210 yards per game to their opponents. On the other side of the coin is running back Samaje Perine, arguably Oklahoma’s best player. Perine had 152 yards on the ground against Tulsa but has seldom been a huge difference maker for the Sooners this season. It’s not to the fault of Perine — he just hasn’t needed to be the workhorse that he was in 2015 because of the other weapons that now surround him. But, give the Longhorns relatively porous defense so far this season, the Red River Showdown could be the time that Perine breaks out for a huge performance.
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he artists performing at Austing City L imits Weekend two are big names, such as Drake and The Weeknd, as well as some smaller groups like Wolf Alice or Ruen Brothers. The festival will feature old favorites, like Billy Idol, as well as newer artists like Ryn Weaver and Echosmith. Several different genres are featured: everything from rock to dubstep, alternative to gospel. Headliners include The Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Disclosure, Deadmau5, Bassnectar, Hozier and alt-J. ACL is a treat for those who get to go, but there are several barriers to g o i n g w h e n y o u ’ re a student. First is the issue of ticket
price and limited ticket availability. Then, once you get the ticket, there are scheduling issues. You run the risk of skipping your Thursday classes, make the choice between missing either OU/ Texas or Misterwives’ set on Saturday and Sunday. You can either get back to Norman and sleep before your Monday classes, or you can see Florence + The Machine and get back to Norman at around three in the morning (assuring your friends that it was so worth it the next day after falling asleep in calc). Once you get to Austin, there’s the hardest choice of all: how do you plan your schedule? No matter how hard you try, you’ll miss a couple of artists
you really wanted to see. How e ve r, t h e re are several ways to see everyone that you want through online resources. PBS has several recordings from concerts that occurred at ACL in the past (including one from this year’s headliners, The Foo Fighters). Cassandra Wilson’s set in tribute to Billie Holiday will be broadcast on television. While RedBull and Sirius XM livestreamed certain sets from weekend one,
there are no plans to livestream weeke n d t w o. A C L’s 2 0 1 5 broadcast schedule can be found online. If you want videos of the concert and don’t mind the quality, look up the artist you’re interested in on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube. People who did go catch the set will share videos, giving you an alternative way to experience the festival, but also be sure to check out the ACL show’s official
hashtag, #acltv. If you are going to the festival, there are several ways to maximize your experience. The official ACL app offers a lot of information for festival attendees. The app allows you to plan a schedule, discover more about artists, and offers push notifications for festival updates and special information. There’s even a quiz that offers prizes like Side-Stage passes and tickets to exclusive night shows. The official website also has the answers to some basic questions about the festival for firsttime visitors. If you have questions about festival do’s and don’ts, and you want a more human voice, consider checking out
Reddit, or Reddit’s list of tips, tricks, FAQs and other information from people who have gone to the festival before. Several websites have published survival guides that will help you get the most out of your ACL weekend as well, including several news organizations in the Austin area. One key rule from this year’s ACL: leave the selfie sticks at home. ACL is cracking down on the devices that block concert viewing. Austin City Limits weekend two runs from October 9-11. PHOTOS PROVIDED THROUGH GOOGLE SEARCH OF AUSTIN CITY LIMITS.
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