The last time the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns met for a Red River Rivalry on the softball field, a national championship was on the line.
The Sooners and Longhorns will meet this weekend for a top-5 clash at Love's Field in Norman, Oklahoma, with endless storylines.
This will be the Longhorns' first chance at revenge since the Sooners beat them in the Women's College World Series Championship Series last year to win their fourth national title in a row. OU also beat Texas in the 2022 championship series.
These rivals have met on both campuses, at neutral sites, in big-time matchups and even for national championships, but never as SEC foes. This weekend, though, will be OU and Texas' first meeting on the softball diamond since both schools left the Big 12 for the SEC last summer.
Sooners, Longhorns meet in national championship rematch, first time as SEC foes
The SEC boasts four of the top-5 teams in the latest ESPN.com / USA Softball Collegiate Top 25. That includes Texas at No. 3 and the No. 4 Sooners. Both have been inside the top 5 since preseason rankings were dropped.
The winner of the Red River Rivalry will still have a chance to catch No. 2 Texas A&M for the SEC regular-season title. No. 1 Tennessee, which beat both OU and Texas in a series this season, also still has a shot at the regular-season crown.
The regular season concludes next weekend with the Sooners traveling to play No. 6 Florida. Texas will host Kentucky, one of the few unranked teams in the SEC.
This marquee rivalry series with big-time implications was worthy of a national audience all weekend long.
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