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Offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby and defensive coordinator Ted Roof acknowledged widespread improvements are needed to get the Sooners back on track.

Oklahoma and Texas face off as unranked teams for the first time since 1998.

Texas QB Quinn Ewers had a career day in his first Red River Showdown, helping lead the Longhorns to a 49-0 dismantling of reeling rival Oklahoma.

NORMAN, Okla. -- Recent meetings between Texas and Oklahoma have been shootouts.

Oklahoma has a chance to do something no one sees coming — win against Texas.

The Texas Longhorns blew out the Oklahoma Sooners 49-0 to snap OU’s four-game winning streak in the Red River series.

Get a preview of the Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners football game.

There are plenty of reasons to believe the high-scoring trend will continue. Both teams have had issues at times on defense heading into Saturday’s matchup in Dallas.

The Red River Showdown isn’t the Big 12’s marquee game on Saturday, but it is a chance for Steve Sarkisian to pick up a signature win.

As a walk-on long snapper — even one at powerhouse Alabama — Kneeland Hibbett doesn’t figure to rake in a lucrative endorsement deal. What he does earn he wants to put to good use. The grandson of a Crimson Tide national champion, Hibbett has pledged to donate a share of his name, image and likeness proceeds to the Concussion Legacy Foundation , which works with former football players and others who developed traumatic brain injuries from repeated hits to the head.