Current:Home > MyTexas football plants flag through Baker Mayfield Oklahoma jersey after Red River Rivalry -WealthSphere Pro
Texas football plants flag through Baker Mayfield Oklahoma jersey after Red River Rivalry
View
Date:2025-04-14 19:17:57
(This story was updated with new information)
The Red River Rivalry between Texas football and Oklahoma is one of college football's richest rivalry games out there.
It's also one that comes with quite the emotion, as evident by Saturday's 120th edition of the Red River Shootout at the Cotton Bowl.
Following the No. 1 Longhorns 34-3 romp over the Sooners, Texas defensive players Anthony Hill Jr. and Barryn Sorrell took a Baker Mayfield No. 6 Oklahoma jersey and placed it at the 50-yard line. The two then planted the University of Texas flag right through the jersey, unofficially claiming the Cotton Bowl as their own.
REQUIRED READING:Texas vs Oklahoma score: Updates, highlights from Longhorns' 34-3 Red River Rivalry win
"I just felt like it was the right thing for me to do," Hill Jr. said postgame. "I'd seen all the stuff they (Oklahoma) posted last year, so I felt like it was right for me to get a little touch of something on them."
Saturday's win for Texas marked just the second time in the last seven seasons (and twice in the last three) that the Longhorns have won the Red River Rivalry. It also marked the first time that the Longhorns have started the season 6-0 for the first time since 2009, as noted by the Austin American-Statesman.
Hill Jr. had a big game himself on Saturday, as the 6-foot-3 defensive lineman finished with a game-high 11 tackles and two sacks for a total loss of 8 yards. He also forced a fumble in the second quarter, when he stripped the ball out of Oklahoma quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr.'s hand on a scramble.
The Longhorns also got back starting quarterback Quinn Ewers on Saturday after the 6-foot-2 quarterback was sidelined for the last five weeks with an oblique strain. Though it took him some time to settle in, Ewers completed 20 of 29 passes for 199 yards with two combined touchdowns and an interception in his first game back.
veryGood! (2)
Related
- Meta releases AI model to enhance Metaverse experience
- From digital cookbooks to greeting cards, try these tech tips to ease holiday stress
- These 15 Secrets About Big Little Lies Are What Really Happened
- Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist, gets 36 months probation in Jan. 6 riot case
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- Shannen Doherty says cancer has spread to her bones: I don't want to die
- One homeless person killed, another 4 wounded in Las Vegas shooting
- Alabama, Nick Saban again run the SEC but will it mean spot in College Football Playoff?
- Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
- Russia brings new charges against jailed Kremlin foe Navalny
Ranking
- Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
- Former U.S. Olympic swimmer Klete Keller sentenced to three years probation for role in Jan. 6 riot
- Italy reportedly refused Munich museum’s request to return ancient Roman statue bought by Hitler
- AP Top 25: Michigan is No. 1 for first time in 26 seasons, Georgia’s streak on top ends at 24 weeks
- Could your smelly farts help science?
- Texas makes College Football Playoff case by smashing Oklahoma State in Big 12 title game
- College football bowl game schedule for the 2023-24 season: A full guide for fans.
- Los Angeles police searching for suspect in three fatal shootings of homeless people
Recommendation
SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
Controversy at Big 12 title game contest leads to multiple $100,000 scholarship winners
Supernatural Actor Mark Sheppard Says He Had 6 Massive Heart Attacks
One homeless person killed, another 4 wounded in Las Vegas shooting
Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
Sister Wives' Janelle Brown Shares the One Thing She’d Change About Her Marriage to Kody
Florida’s Republican chair has denied a woman’s rape allegation in a case roiling state politics
Man kills 4 relatives in Queens knife rampage, injures 2 officers before he’s fatally shot by police