The Longhorns took back the Golden Hat Trophy from the Sooners with their 34-3 win on Saturday.

Perhaps the only way the Oklahoma-Texas rivalry could have become even more intense happened when both joined the powerful Southeastern Conference in July.

The top-ranked Texas Longhorns are entering the weekend as 14-point favorites, but anything can happen in a rivalry game — especially in a rivalry game with 119 years of history.

With many players NFL eligible and others following unhappy starting quarterback Kyle McCord into the transfer portal, Ohio State football looked to be in for an unhappy winter.

All-America running back Cody Schrader ran for 128 yards and bulled into the end zone for a 7-yard touchdown to open the fourth quarter with Missouri’s first score, and the ninth-ranked Tigers capped an 11-win season with a 14-3 win over No. 7 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.

Oklahoma and Texas have announced they will keep their annual rivalry game at Cotton Bowl Stadium through 2036 in a deal that includes significant renovations to the facility.

Injured Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers has resumed throwing again and been upgraded as “day to day,” coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday.

3 key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

Oklahoma moved up to No. 5 in The Associated Press college football poll and Miami’s late-game gaffe nearly cost the 25th-ranked Hurricanes a spot in the rankings.

The name of the annual Texas-Oklahoma football matchup has been changed back to the Red River Rivalry, ditching the unpopular Red River Showdown used since 2014.

The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday announced the first schedule of games for the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners when they join the league for the 2024 football season.

U.S. metropolitan areas are increasing in population again, growing by almost half a percent last year.

Tulane tight end Alex Bauman caught a 6-yard touchdown from Michael Pratt with 9 seconds left to finish off a frantic finish by the 14th-ranked Green Wave in a 46-45 win over No. 8 Southern California in the Cotton Bowl.

Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams says he is ready to play in the Cotton Bowl.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene.

The Georgia Bulldogs defense has a chance at redemption.

A mere 37 days after they last played, Alabama faces Georgia again with a national football championship on the line.

Top-ranked Alabama is headed to another national championship game.

Top-ranked Alabama is headed to another national championship game.

College Football Playoff week is here with a pair of semifinal games on Friday: Alabama vs.

Top-ranked Alabama and Cincinnati have arrived in North Texas for their playoff semifinal game at the Cotton Bowl.

Cincinnati is the first outsider to make the College Football Playoff and Alabama is the standard bearer.

College GameDay is heading to Texas this weekend for “one of college football’s greatest rivalries.”

The commissioners of the Pac-12 and Big 12 are discussing how the two conferences might benefit from working together or maybe even merging.

After the boards of regents for the universities of Texas and Oklahoma voted Friday to accept invitations to the Southeastern Conference, the league announced the Big 12 rivals would start competing in the SEC in the fall of 2025.

The board of regents for the University of Texas has voted unanimously to accept an invitation for the Longhorns to join the Southeastern Conference.

Dicky Maegle, the Rice running back tackled in the 1954 Cotton Bowl by an Alabama player who came off the bench, has died.

FILE - Former player Vince Young watches a game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns at Cotton Bowl on October 11, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)AUSTIN, Texas – Texas will pay former Longhorns quarterback Vince Young $100,000 annually as a special assistant to the athletic director. The College Football Hall of Famer was rehired by the program in December and returned to campus Jan. 4. The document said Young would report to athletic director Chris Del Conte but did not include any specific job duties. Young returns to campus at a time the program is trying to build momentum behind new head coach Steve Sarkisian.

FILE - Former player Vince Young watches a game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns at Cotton Bowl on October 11, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)AUSTIN, Texas – Texas has re-hired former Longhorns quarterback Vince Young as a special assistant in the athletic department, bringing the College Football Hall of Famer back to the program after he was fired in 2019. Young led the Longhorns to the 2005 season national championship with a last-minute touchdown against USC. Terms of Young's job and salary in the athletic department were not immediately disclosed. AdFormer Texas Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell is also a longtime special assistant in athletics.

Florida coach Dan Mullen, center, watches play against Oklahoma during the first half of the Cotton Bowl NCAA college football game in Arlington, Texas, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida coach Dan Mullen wasted little time identifying problem areas following his team's worst defensive season in more than a hundred years. The Sooners racked up a whopping 684 yards — the most any team has ever gained against Florida — in the Cotton Bowl on Wednesday night. The Gators played without three defensive starters in the Cotton Bowl. Even with those give guys, Florida’s defense was mostly a debacle.

8 Oklahoma beat 10th-ranked SEC runner-up Florida 55-20 on Wednesday night in the Cotton Bowl. Back in the same NFL stadium where 11 days earlier they won their sixth consecutive Big 12 title, the Sooners (9-2, No. The 55 points were their most ever in a bowl game, while piling up a Cotton Bowl-record 684 total yards. 1 Alabama in the SEC title game, and had averaged nearly 42 points a game. Oklahoma: With Rattler and Mims among the young standouts coming back, the Sooners could again be favored to win another Big 12 title.

(AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma (8-2, Big 12) vs. Florida (8-3, SEC), Dec. 30 in Arlington, Texas, 8 p.m. EST (ESPN). NOTABLEOklahoma: The Sooners have won six consecutive Big 12 titles, the latest coming after beating Iowa State 27-21 on Saturday in the same stadium where they will now play the Cotton Bowl. They have a seven-game winning streak since being 0-2 in Big 12 play for the first time since 1998. BOWL HISTORYOklahoma: Third appearance in Cotton Bowl, 22nd season in a row playing in a bowl game and 54th bowl overall; only Alabama, Georgia and Texas have played in more. Florida: First appearance in Cotton Bowl, 46th bowl appearance in school history.

ARLINGTON, Texas – Oklahoma is going right back to the stadium where the Sooners just won their sixth Big 12 championship in a row to play SEC runner-up Florida in the Cotton Bowl. During a Gators team meeting on Zoom to discuss their bowl destination, one of the first questions players asked Mullen was where the Cotton Bowl was played. Oklahoma is in the Cotton Bowl for only the third time, its first since a 41-13 loss to Texas A&M on Jan. 4, 2013. The Cotton Bowl will be played two days before Alabama faces No. Pitts announced is turning pro and won't play in the Cotton Bowl.

AUSTIN, Texas – Fred Akers followed a coaching giant at Texas and came agonizingly close to glory himself with two undefeated seasons before his national title hopes ended in the Cotton Bowl. Akers then left Texas to become the head coach at Wyoming for two seasons before returning to Austin after Royal retired in 1976. Royal and Akers came from poor families in neighboring states — Royal from Oklahoma, Akers from Arkansas. And Akers won big, for a while, by disrupting some of what Royal had built but had become stale. After his firing at Texas, Akers spent four seasons at Purdue.

The bowl season will start Dec. 19, the day most of the major college football conferences are set to play their championship games, and includes 37 games. The CFP semifinals will be played Jan. 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The Cotton Bowl will be the first New Year's Six game played on Dec. 30. Two new bowl games debut this season: the Montgomery Bowl in Alabama on Dec. 23 and the L.A. Bowl in Los Angeles on Dec. 30. ___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25

They just weren't getting their typical requests for photos with OU fans who like to do the “Horns Down” sign. Food booths, including the one with the famous corny dog, were open outside the Cotton Bowl's main entrance. “I’m glad to be here,” Oklahoma fan Kury Keeley said outside the stadium before the game. Stark and Wanek, both wearing masks bearing a Texas logo, always brace for some of those boos. But this is nice to stretch out.”Still, these fans hope they don't get used to it.