Texas hung 49 points on Brent Venables' Oklahoma defense last season. Can the Sooners find a way to bounce back Saturday?
The Red River runs deep with lore, football and water that looks like blood. And the area provides us with one of the greatest annual spectacles in American sports: Texas versus . One of the only college football games to historically breathe the same air as – and –, the Red River Rivalry almost never disappoints. Each chapter is as important as the next. Advertisement Take Oct. 9, 1993, for instance.
Advertisement Another thing that happened last year in this game was Sarkisian scheming favorable run situations early and often, as Oklahoma’s defense spent a lot of time in its odd front — Venables being rightly concerned about having enough help in space and vertically. Texas rushed for 296 yards at 6.2 per pop, often just taking free yards on nervous defenders . Any time Oklahoma cheated up, Texas responded with a dagger through the air. It was, in essence, a defensive disaster.
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