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Oklahoma football: ‘College GameDay’ hosting from 2021 Red River rivalry

By Chip Rouse

Oct 10, 2020; Dallas, Texas, USA; Fans walk outside Cotton Bowl Stadium before the Red River Showdown college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns (UT) at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Mandatory Credit: Bryan Terry-USA TODAY NETWORK
Oct 10, 2020; Dallas, Texas, USA; Fans walk outside Cotton Bowl Stadium before the Red River Showdown college football game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns (UT) at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Mandatory Credit: Bryan Terry-USA TODAY NETWORK /
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Think next weekend’s Oklahoma football rivalry game with Texas doesn’t mean something a little more this year?

ESPN’s “College GameDay” program thinks it does. The popular sports network announced on Sunday that it will host it’s Saturday morning college football preview show from the Texas State Fair in Dallas, Texas, site of the 117th edition of the Red River Showdown between Oklahoma and Texas.

“GameDay” chose the OU-Texas game as next Saturday’s broadcast location over the matchup between No. 3 Iowa and No. 4 Penn State.

At least one of the two teams has been ranked in each of the last 23 games between these two longtime rivals, and 15 times during that span both teams have been nationally ranked.

That will be the case next again next Saturday as the Sooners come in at 5-0 and ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll and Texas at No. 21. Oklahoma has won 11 of the last 15 games when both teams were ranked.

The last time Rece Davis, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and David Pollack visited the site of an Oklahoma football game since the Bedlam game with Oklahoma State last fall. It will be the first time they have broadcast from the Red River Showdown since 2018, when No. 9 Texas upset No. 5 Oklahoma 48-45 on a 40-yard, game-winning Texas field goal with nine seconds remaining in the game.

Saturday will mark the seventh time the GameDay crew has broadcast from the OU-Texas game and the eighth time in the last five seasons that they have previewed an Oklahoma game.

Texas leads the all-time series with Oklahoma with a record of 62-49-5, but since 2000, Oklahoma owns a 14-7 advantage over the Longhorns in the regular season.

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