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Kennedy Brooks and Cameron Dicker lead iconic recent Red River moments
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Kennedy Brooks and Cameron Dicker lead iconic recent Red River moments

From its signature location to its storied history, few college football players are quite like the Red River Rivalry.

The rivalry begins a new chapter this year as the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners meet for the first time with SEC patches on their jerseys. The top-ranked Longhorns enter as comfortable favorites, but the Sooners have taken home five of the last six games in the series.

Conference relationships may change, but iconic moments remain a staple of Dallas. Last year, Nic Anderson secured his place in Oklahoma lore with a game-winning touchdown catch with 15 seconds left.

Here are some of the other most iconic plays in the rivalry since the turn of the century.


2021: Oklahoma 55, Texas 48

Kennedy Brooks sprints to the winner at the last second

The 2021 edition of the rivalry was one of them the games that college football season, and for good reason.

In addition to being a remarkably powerful event with 1,178 yards of total offense, the stars shone in the Cotton Bowl. Texas receiver Xavier Worthy caught nine passes for a whopping 261 yards and a pair of scores. On the other hand, Oklahoma turned to their backup quarterback for a new engine: a highly touted freshman named Caleb Williams.

A late Worthy touchdown seemed like it would send the game to overtime, but the Sooners’ offense had one final score left. Williams guided Oklahoma to the edge of field goal range before Kennedy Brooks outpaced the Longhorns’ defense into the end zone for a game-winning touchdown with just seconds left.


2018: Texas 48, Oklahoma 45

Cameron Dicker finalizes the deal late

With 8½ minutes left in the fourth quarter of the 2018 edition of the rivalry, Texas appeared to be on cruise control. The Longhorns’ three third-quarter touchdowns had given them a commanding 45-24 lead.

The Kyler Murray-led Sooners had other plans. Oklahoma stormed back, with a seven-yard run from Trey Sermon to tie the score with just over two minutes remaining. But Sam Ehlinger engineered a final drive for Texas in response, ultimately placing the Longhorns’ victory hopes on the heels of true freshman kicker Cameron Dicker.

Dicker, now with the Los Angeles Chargers, answered the call and drained a 40-yard field goal with nine seconds left to secure a win for Texas.


2008: Texas 45, Oklahoma 35

Jordan Shipley’s special teams spark

In a battle of top five foes, it was the No. 1 ranked Sooners who raced to an early 14-3 lead in Dallas.

With Texas needing a spark, Jordan Shipley delivered. He raced on the kickoff after Oklahoma’s second touchdown, 96 yards the other way to the end zone for a momentum-changing score, the longest return in the rivalry’s long history.

The Longhorns offense had scored twice in three drives before Shipley returned. They would finish six of their next seven drives with points, eventually amassing a 45-35 lead that would carry Texas to a big win.


2001: Oklahoma 14, Texas 3

Roy Williams goes into Superman mode to secure a Sooners victory

With just over two minutes remaining in another top-5 edition of the rivalry, the stage was set for another iconic ending.

The Longhorns trailed 7-3 and were 97 yards away from a winning touchdown. They wouldn’t come any closer. Texas quarterback Chris Simms took the first snap of the drive and barely got three steps into his dropback before star Oklahoma safety Roy Williams closed in on him. Williams crashed into Simms with a Superman-like dive, his body essentially parallel to the ground at the point of contact.

Simms’ disrupted pass fell straight into the arms of Teddy Lehman, who intercepted it and raced into the end zone untouched. The Sooners’ 14-3 lead would count as the final score.