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We watched this crazy game and we’re still not sure we believe it – Oklahoma 53, Texas 45 (4OT)

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No chapter in the history books will adequately describe the pandemic year of 2020.

Likewise, no story will adequately describe the 2020 Red River Rivalry game between the Oklahoma and the Texas college football teams.

Holy Moly. Sooners win 53-45 in a four-overtime, nearly five hour game. 

Although only 24,000 fans were allowed to attend, it was the sort of game where thousands more will later fondly recall how they were there.

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2020 sucks and other things as I miss attending OU-Texas game for first time in 30 years

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It is a pleasant evening on my patio tonight, as the setting sun casts shadows through the sycamore tree’s cover onto my Bermuda backyard where two squirrels chase each other from one end to the other.
 
All that sounds good. A nice fall weekend ahead here in Norman, Oklahoma.
 
Except every year on this evening, for the past 30 years in a row, I have not been here. 
 
I have been in Los Colinas, Texas at a high-rise hotel with several hundred other people dressed in similar crimson garb reuniting friendships forged each eve of the best college football game ever played: Oklahoma-Texas game at Fair Park in Dallas.
 
But not this weekend. Not this year.
 
The year to forget — the COVID 19 year.
 
There is a football season this year?
 
About 20,000 fans will be in the Cotton Bowl for kickoff on Saturday at 11 a.m.
 

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Inept defense sinks Sooners for first loss in Ames since ’60

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You can point to key penalties and a late fourth quarter interception by young QB Spencer Rattler, but the Sooners lost for the first time in 60 years in Ames, Iowa because of something much simpler: tackling.

Or rather, the Sooners’ defense’s inability to do it.

Oklahoma’s 37-30 loss to Iowa State on Saturday night dropped them to 0-2 in the Big 12. It was the first back-t0-back loss for the Sooners since 1999.

The Sooners will go into the Red River Rivalry next weekend with a 1-2 record.

“Our backs are against the wall as a football team. We know that, we accept that. Our guys are hurt. Most of the guys in our room have never experienced a start of a season like this, but it’s still how you respond and I believe I know how this group will,” Coach Lincoln Riley said after the game.

Rattler played well. He threw two touchdowns (to Jeremiah Hall) and ran for another. The redshirt freshman completed 25 of 36 passes for 300 yards.

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