Texas Football: 3 reasons OU will beat the Longhorns in Red River

Texas football will have yet another sneaky difficult matchup on tap for this weekend, taking on the Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Rivalry game.

There is a lot on the line for both Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend when the two rivals take to the field at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas in the next edition of the annual Red River Rivalry game. On Oct. 10 at 11 a.m. CT at the Cotton Bowl at the Texas State Fairgrounds, Texas and Oklahoma will start to decide who is the victor in the next edition of this long standing rivalry.

Oklahoma currently owns a two-game winning streak in Red River. The last two wins for the Sooners came last season at the Cotton Bowl and two years ago at the Big 12 Championship Game, in Arlington, TX. The last win for the Longhorns came during the 2018 regular season, with that thrilling 48-45 nailbiting win off the leg of then freshman kicker Cameron Dicker.

Texas comes into this game with a record of 2-1 (1-1 Big 12). They are coming off a tough loss at the hands of the TCU Horned Frogs in their Big 12 home opener last weekend, by the final score of 33-31. Junior running back Keaontay Ingram fumbled both the ball and the game away on the same play in the loss to TCU on Oct. 3, which came with less than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

The two wins for the Longhorns to start the season came over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in their Big 12 opener and the UTEP Miners in the season opener back on Sep. 12. Meanwhile, Oklahoma will come in with a major chip on their shoulder coming off two straight losses to open up Big 12 play to the Iowa State Cyclones and Kansas State Wildcats.

Here’s a look into three reasons why the Longhorns will fall short against the Sooners this weekend in Red River.