Texas Football: 12 biggest villains in Longhorns history

7. Bob Stoops

The biggest rival that the Longhorns still hold that they meet with annually is against the in-conference foe Oklahoma Sooners. It seems like the tide is finally turning to the point where Oklahoma and Texas will be consistently battling for the Big 12 crown, instead of other challengers like the Baylor Bears, Oklahoma State, TCU, etc.

However, a head coach that saw some of the best years of the Red River Rivalry game in recent memory is former Oklahoma HC Bob Stoops. A former Oklahoma head coach that held a career record of 190-48-0 with the Sooners was definitely a thorn in the side of the Longhorns for a good bit of time.

At one point, there was a five-game winning streak that Stoops held over the Longhorns, just when Brown was starting to get his feet wet as Texas’ head coach. Stoops held a five-game winning streak over the Longhorns in the Red River Rivalry game, from 2000-2004. That included two thorough dismantlings of Texas.

The first of those two dominating wins for the Sooners over the Longhorns came in 2000, by the final score of 63-14. And the second came in 2003, by the final score of 65-13. That is the largest margin of victory in the all-time rivalry series between Oklahoma and Texas.

Stoops wound up leading Oklahoma to a BCS National Championship during the 2000 season, which was difficult for the Longhorns to watch as they were starting to find real success on the national scene then.

But after that five-game winning streak in the early 2000’s for Oklahoma over Texas, the men in burnt orange would claim four of the next five victories.