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Oklahoma-Texas: The game that’s meant to be

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In reality, the Red River Rivalry has not been a series of games. It is one game.

Each contest is a continuation of the year before — another engagement in a border war that has been waged for 107 years.

A run here. A pass there. A big play. A turnover. A kick.

They are jabs and cuts and headbutts in a slugfest to gain the momentum. To battle for the lead.

To go at it with reckless abandon for 60 minutes in order to gain the lead on the scoreboard, followed by a 364-day time out, then followed by another four quarters of the same struggle.

And it is the way it should be — the best rivalry in college football.

Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione best summed up the state of the Oklahoma-Texas game.

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Landry sheds monkey, bring on Longhorns

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By Soonerguy Mike

The Sooners did not take long to put aside the celebration of Saturday’s 41-20 must-win over the Red Raiders.

On the way back to Oklahoma, the team was watching the Texas-West Virginia game on the plane’s satellite television.

After all, the “Beat the Hell Out of Texas Week” started when the last seconds of a unanswered 17 point third quarter ended at Jones Stadium in Lubbock.

With the score then 41-13, the Texas Tech game was over.

A little extra “scouting” never hurts the week before Oklahoma vs. Texas.

But before we all get immersed in upside down hook ’em horns it is important to recognize Landry Jones got a big monkey off his back by leading the Sooners to an impressive win in a place where the Sooners haven’t found success since Jason White quarterbacked them in 2003.

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It’s time for Sooner leader to emerge

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Two things come to mind going into Saturday’s OU-Kansas State game:

1) This is a game where leadership needs to emerge; and 2) this is a game where fan support needs to go nuts.

A combination of those two should bring a big fat win for the No. 5 Sooners and propel them nicely into the conference schedule and the national championship discussion.

In the past Oklahoma has stepped up when needed on both fronts.

Remember the 2008 Texas Tech game? That was the last time Coach Bob Stoops called out the fans to go crazy at Owen Field. And they did – to the tune of “Jump Around.”

And the team, then also ranked No. 5, showed up to put a 65-21 trouncing on the then No. 2 ranked Red Raiders.

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