Texas Football: 10 most hated Oklahoma Sooners by Longhorns fans

A player that held Texas football back in 2004 from reaching a BCS National Championship Game, before facing the USC Trojans in the 2006 Rose Bowl, is also a Minnesota Vikings legend. To-be NFL Hall-of-Fame running back Adrian Peterson sits among the best Oklahoma football players of all-time and is also very memorable for Texas football fans.

During his three-year career as the Oklahoma starting running back, Peterson racked up well over 4,000 total yards from scrimmage and 42 touchdowns. He had a very similar stat line to what Sims did in his final two years with the Sooners.

Peterson helped Oklahoma control the clock just enough to keep a hapless Texas offense completely out of the endzone in the 2004 edition of the Red River Showdown. Oklahoma’s ground game once again was a deciding factor between the two offenses in that game.

Texas learned from that experience on its way to a 45-12 thrashing of the Sooners in Red River the following year.

Nonetheless, Peterson was always a thorn in the side of the Longhorns. He was a very shifty running back that was very polarizing and entertaining to watch. But any Oklahoma running back that screams confidence like he did in Red River is easy to hate for fans of the Longhorns.