r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 7d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Oklahoma Defeats Texas 27-24

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Texas 7 10 0 7 24
Oklahoma 0 7 3 17 27
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover 7d ago

OU really went from being outscored 83-3 the last 2 years in this rivalry, to walking off the #1 team in the country. What the actual fuck

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u/Hulkodium Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Renewal 7d ago

Ranking does not matter in the Cotton Bowl. Anyone can beat anyone

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 SMU Mustangs • Penn State Nittany Lions 7d ago edited 6d ago

Is that what you would blame for SMU's inconsistency, the fact that we used that place as our sometimes or definitive home for about 70 years of SMU's history?

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u/splicerslicer Oklahoma Sooners 6d ago

I'm not typically one to believe in superstition, but you have to at least acknowledge that with as much outright hatred exchanged there over the decades that it might be a bit cursed.