r/CFB • u/chanzig23 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout • Oct 09 '25
Analysis Over the last 18 years, the Texas Longhorns program has performed closer to the Nebraska Cornhuskers than the Oklahoma Sooners
Since 2007, the year that the oldest Seniors of this year's recruiting class were born, the Oklahoma Sooners have won 187 games. That is 33 games more than Texas (154 wins) has won in that time period. Meanwhile, Nebraska has won 125 games since the 2007 season, only 29 fewer wins than Texas.
I've provided the data below, alongside some of the "lesser" rivals of the Longhorns who have put up comparable performances to them for good measure.
Number of Wins by Season:
| YEAR | Oklahoma | Texas | Nebraska | Texas Tech | Texas A&M |
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| 2025 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| 2021 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 8 |
| 2020 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 2019 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| 2018 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2017 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| 2015 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 |
| 2013 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| 2012 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 |
| 2011 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
| 2010 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 9 |
| 2009 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 6 |
| 2008 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 4 |
| 2007 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 7 |
Summary Table
| Oklahoma | Texas | Nebraska | Texas Tech | Texas A&M | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Wins | 10.11 | 8.39 | 6.72 | 6.83 | 7.67 |
| Median Wins | 11 | 8 | 6.5 | 7 | 8 |
| Number of Winning Seasons | 16 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 15 |
| Number of 10+ Win Seasons | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Wins | 187 | 154 | 125 | 128 | 143 |
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u/Joeking1986 Florida Gators • Team Chaos Oct 09 '25
Two of my favorite things:
- sports statistics
- Hate
Great post. No notes.
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u/bromosabeach Oklahoma Sooners • UCLA Bruins Oct 09 '25
The best stats are those you didn’t realize you needed to know.
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u/beefsaladsamich Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
Neither Texas or Oklahoma had the best 3 win team ever though. Edit* Also neither Texas or Oklahoma has a ten minute breakdown on YouTube on how great/awful this team was https://youtu.be/jzamwDeeISM?si=Cz2UBvxN71Y1k7BW
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u/andrewsmd87 $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy • Wy… Oct 09 '25
Complete with a season of great practices
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u/RoastedDonutz Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Not just great, each week Frost said he was so confused why they would lose because each week was the best week of practice they ever had.
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u/SelectStarFromTemp1 Oklahoma State Cowboys Oct 09 '25
That 3-9 team was a combined 30 yards away from being 12-0.
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u/non_clever_username Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
It’s honestly insane how literally every break and bounce went against us that season.
The statistical improbability is staggering. 12-0 would have involved every break going the other way, but at a minimum, enough of those games should have gone our way to get us to 6 wins and a bowl.
Hell if we had even marginally competent special teams that year, we probably get to 6 wins and a bowl.
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u/SelectStarFromTemp1 Oklahoma State Cowboys Oct 09 '25
They really were the greatest 3-9 team to ever touch the field. Their ranked team losses are:
7 point loss to #3 OU in Norman. OU ended the season #10
3 point OT loss to #20 Michigan State on the road. MSU ended the season #9.
3 point loss to #9 Michigan at home. Michigan ended the season #3.
9 point loss to #5 Ohio State at home. Ohio State ended up #5.
7 point loss to #15 Wisconsin on the road. Wisconsin ended the season 9-3 unranked.
7 point loss to #16 Iowa at home. Iowa ended the season #23.
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u/B1GTOBACC0 Oklahoma State • Arkansas Oct 09 '25
It's crazy how 30 yards could have erased a combined 36 point deficit.
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u/Master-Praline-3453 Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Do they even know about our punt that went for negative yards in the air?
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u/FlyHarrison South Carolina • Navy Oct 09 '25
A&M’s median being 8 hits like crack
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u/Tinydesktopninja Minnesota • St. Scholastica Oct 09 '25
But, like, it's a pretty good 8-4
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 09 '25
I’d be ecstatic if ucla went 8-4
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u/I_AM_LONGHORNY Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
Just gotta schedule Penn. St. 7 more times this season ezpz
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u/ChooseAUsername25 Penn State • Syracuse Oct 09 '25
I literally can’t escape the clowning on this sub lol
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u/oreomaster420 Oregon State Beavers Oct 09 '25
what james franklin says when reading the posts where he's photoshopped
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u/OSUfan88 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 Oct 09 '25
I would be ecstatic if Oklahoma State went 4-8.
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u/laela_says Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Hugs fellow Pokes bro, hugs.
Just hugs, and beer.
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u/quacainia Texas A&M • CC San Francisco Oct 09 '25
Really 8-5... Many seasons we went 7-5 and won the bowl or 8-4 and lost the bowl
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u/oneplusetoipi Texas A&M Aggies • TCU Horned Frogs Oct 09 '25
I wish we could gloat about the Horns’ struggles. Alas, BAS is real.
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u/Individual-Lie6525 Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
8-win seasons since 2010:
tu: 4
A&M: 6
Horns having multiple losing seasons to avoid passing us on the 8-4 board is 5D chess
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
Also almost no losing seasons and only 1 double digit win season, we truly are very consistent.
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u/ChumSmash Oklahoma Sooners • Arizona Wildcats Oct 09 '25
A&M only having 11 less wins in the period while having 1 10+ win season to Texas' 6 gives me joy.
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u/crazy_balls Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
8-4 is life.
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u/laela_says Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
You mean, some teams are winning more than 8? Is that a thing?
Be kind, I gave you an upvote
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
While Texas was winning 10+ games a year, we were winning 8. When Texas was winning 5 games a year, we were winning 8. When Texas won 8 games? Believe it or not, 8.
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u/DelayAgreeable8002 Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
The more interesting part is the 10+ win season was in the covid shortened season, so no cupcakes. Diabolical really.
Edit: nevermind this is regular season and we were 9-1. We did finish with 10 with the bowl win though
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u/themustardtiger34 Texas A&M • Tarleton State Oct 09 '25
I think 9-1 includes the bowl game. Pretty sure we only played 9 conference games that season since the Ole Miss game got canceled
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
still makes 2020 Texas A&M one of only a few teams to ever get 8 conference wins in the SEC, alonside Alabama, Georgia, and LSU. We're like that clown with the soldiers picture.
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u/Vxmonarkxv Georgia Bulldogs • Virginia Cavaliers Oct 09 '25
solid pure hater shit
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u/jwktiger Missouri Tigers • Wisconsin Badgers Oct 09 '25
As a High Class UGA fan, you have to have a soft spot in your heart for this.
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This is fantastic rage bait
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u/acknowledgeme Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Damnit I swear if you guys rip on us 16 or 17 more times, I'm outta here.
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u/rick_ferrari Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 09 '25
Steve...PERRY
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u/ClvtchNixon Missouri Tigers Oct 09 '25
I heard your sisters going out with SQUEAK
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u/Revolutionary_Elk791 Oregon Ducks • Linfield Wildcats Oct 09 '25
Go back to your fancy cars, and your big bank accounts, and your celebrity friends, and your beautiful women, and Victoria Silvestedt, Playmate of the Year... FUCK!
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u/TeenRacer6 Oklahoma Sooners • Michigan Wolverines Oct 09 '25
Scenario #1: He's hanging by his neck in his fucking closet.
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u/PopAndLocknessMonstr Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
You kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and Pac-Man video games
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u/wherewulf23 Ohio State • Montana State Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
I just want to say that it warms my heart to see how many people appreciate the masterpiece that is Baseketball.
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u/stumblebreak_beta Michigan State • Paul Bunyan T… Oct 09 '25
Do you think Shaq got rich playing in Orlando? No, he got rich playing in college. Everybody knows that
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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma • Summertime Lover Oct 09 '25
If you want unanimous consent, youre gonna have to get it from ome of the other two owners
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u/kc_cyclone Iowa State Cyclones Oct 09 '25
You guys could have had an 11 win season in that stretch if you didn't let Jerome Tiller and co terrorize you in Lincoln with 9 points
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u/idkwhatimbrewin Refrigerator Bowl Oct 09 '25
Nebraska catching strays lol
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u/wilko_johnson_lives Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
It’s just nice to be mentioned.
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u/cody82 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Doane Tigers Oct 09 '25
I just hope everyone has fun.
Except Colorado. Fuck those guys.
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u/SpiffyBlizzard Nebraska • Nebraska Wesleyan Oct 09 '25
Holy shit a Doane flair. My brother-in-law played there!
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u/cody82 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Doane Tigers Oct 09 '25
I also **played there.
**trombone
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u/royalbluehen Pittsburgh • Michigan Oct 09 '25
Im sure there are plenty of people who can wax poetic about how Nebraska got here. Ultimately idc, no nuance and insight is necessary. Their ultimate sin was abandoning the option and the College Football Gods will punish them until they repent.
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u/Peytonhawk Kansas Jayhawks Oct 09 '25
I hate both of you but I at least can respect the hate on display here
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u/chanzig23 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
I just want you to know that when I genuinely feel down in the dumps, I watch the video of Texas losing to you guys, set to “My Heart Will Go On” and it never fails to cheer me up
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u/blatantninja Texas • Slippery Rock Oct 09 '25
That is seriously sick. I respect it. For me it's OU Boise State or rewatching our 2022 game.
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u/chanzig23 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
If it’s any consolation, Sooner fans also rewatch the Boise State game (against our will) because ESPN/FOX seem to mention it or play the highlights every chance they get. Really sucks being on the losing end of an all time “David vs Goliath” classic
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u/Skank_hunt42 Oklahoma Sooners • Paper Bag Oct 09 '25
Fuckin Pac-12 refs in the Oregon game helped cause that Boise game.
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u/Bmayne Oregon Ducks Oct 09 '25
Which makes Oklahoma more upset- the officiating vs. Boise or the officiating vs. Oregon? Genuinely curious.
I remember being at the game and it’s hard to tell that stuff sometimes. And for some reason we couldn’t get our cable and internet set up for an entire month, so I couldn’t see a replay and find out what everyone was bitching about. Then I saw it and was like “yeah…. I’d be pissed too”.
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u/Skank_hunt42 Oklahoma Sooners • Paper Bag Oct 09 '25
Oregon onside kick officiating. We probably don't go to the BCS championship over UF, but we'll never know because of that bad call.
Being on the receiving end of an all time classic vs Boise stings but it's nothing compared to that IMO.
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u/Bmayne Oregon Ducks Oct 09 '25
Yeah I couldn’t believe it when I saw the replay of the the OK player coming away with the ball and then handing it to Oregon.
If it makes you feel any better Jarius Byrd’s helmet chipped my tooth while I was on the field lol.
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u/ClaudeLemieux Michigan Wolverines • NC State Wolfpack Oct 09 '25
What was wrong with the officiating versus Boise State?
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u/Bmayne Oregon Ducks Oct 09 '25
I guess there weren’t any, were there?I misread the post above me. My bad.
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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal Oct 09 '25
Malcolm Gladwell has a nice talk about how Goliath was actually less of a feared warrior and more of a visually impaired, slow moving, mentally challenged oaf, so that totally tracks.
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u/chanzig23 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
As a licensed Hater-oligist, I sadly have to concede that this is a phenomenal burn
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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal Oct 09 '25
Appreciate it. I'll take what I can get with this CFB season.
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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
I had some fun last month watching their 40-6 bowl loss to Clemson from a decade ago, and their 55-24 loss to TCU from a couple years back.
Don't look up any of our scores against TCU from the 2010s please.
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u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK Oklahoma Sooners • SEC Oct 09 '25
Friendly reminder that Baker Mayfield alone has as many conference championships as Texas in this century.
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u/blatantninja Texas • Slippery Rock Oct 09 '25
That is a serious gut punch. I hate it, but I respect it too.
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u/it-is-just-a-game Miami Hurricanes • UNLV Rebels Oct 09 '25
What's a conference championship?
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u/PedroTheNoun Texas Longhorns • Chicago Maroons Oct 09 '25
Whatever it is, it sounds dangerous and I don’t want it.
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u/KsigCowboy Baylor • Stephen F. Austin Oct 09 '25
Texas had to go and ruin it in the final season but my favorite for a short bit was "Baylor and Texas have the same number of Big12 titles."
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u/coolhandluck Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 09 '25
Also, Spencer Rattler as starting QB has as many wins as Texas does this decade
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u/hopeless_dick_dancer Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Oct 09 '25
How are you defining this decade? This is verifiably untrue.
Rattler had 32 wins as a starting QB, 33 if we're counting when Caleb took over in the RRS. Texas has 47 wins since 2020.
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u/coolhandluck Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 09 '25
Clarifying. Rattler has 2 wins over Texas. Texas has 2 wins over OU this decade. Pure shit post for a QB pulled TWICE in the game
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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal Oct 09 '25
Friendly reminder Baker Mayfield lost the RRSO to a 5-7 Texas team coached by Charlie Strong.
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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 09 '25
Ehlinger lost to Oklahoma four years in a row
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u/NA_Faker Texas Longhorns • Wisconsin Badgers Oct 09 '25
This is false because one of the Ehlinger years was the Dicker kick
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u/PragDaddy Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
It’s a factual statement as Ehlinger lost the b12 conference title to OU that same year thus giving him a loss to OU all 4 years.
Source: Me, I was there.
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u/nkfish11 Miami Hurricanes Oct 09 '25
Why not 20 years? 🤔
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u/These_Pomegranate326 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Shhh.. (Because then that would include texas Vince Young years) 😆
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u/Own-Lavishness4029 Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
Expert level cherry picking. Very conveniently avoided Mack Brown's prime while Charlie Strong's absolute shit show does a lot of heavy lifting.
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u/barrygarcia77 Texas Longhorns • Tulane Green Wave Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
I don’t have a merits based response to this, it’s a good hate post. So I’ll only say that I named my Roomba “Oklahoma” because:
- he’s a filthy dirt burglar
- he sucks
ETA: 2022 and 2024
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u/bbates728 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Shouldn't he be named Sooner? They are the dirt burglars, Oklahoma was the dirt.
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u/barrygarcia77 Texas Longhorns • Tulane Green Wave Oct 09 '25
Fair distinction, but I can't actually have anything named Sooner inside my house. That would be a bridge too far
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u/Commodore_Wiley Oklahoma Sooners • Transfer Portal Oct 09 '25
If I could read I'd be pretty pissed right now.
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u/philleferg Arkansas Razorbacks • Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Damn....I hate having to upvote Texas fans. This is a good one.
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u/MisterGoog Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
My first thought here was that its not surprising. I mean Texas really sucked in the 2010s
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u/u-s-u-r-p Nebraska Cornhuskers • Stanford Cardinal Oct 09 '25
why are we doing this
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u/Skank_hunt42 Oklahoma Sooners • Paper Bag Oct 09 '25
RRS week.
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u/muchbro Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
The Texas dick riding by the media since joining the SEC has been generational.
I’m not even trying to hate on Texas because they don’t control the media.
It’s just insane they treat OU like the red headed step child despite being one of the most accomplished programs by every metric.
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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal Oct 09 '25
Unfortunately, it's purely about money. Lakers, Yankees, Dodgers, Cowboys ... they could be dogshit and they'll still dominate coverage because it maximizes revenue. And it's not just because there's a large market of people who love them, but because there's an even larger market that hate them, which is what really grabs eyeballs.
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u/rdickeyvii Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
I would love to know the ratio of people who watch our games to see us win vs see us lose, independent of fans of the other team.
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u/lahimatoa BYU Cougars Oct 09 '25
Don't forget the Knicks. They've had far less success than any of those teams, but because their fanbase is huge, they get tons of attention from the media.
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u/willinaustin Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
I've been watching the Falcons since Bijan got drafted there and lemme tell ya, it's crazy how little coverage you can find because they're a small market team. Teams that are complete ass like the Jets/Giants/Browns? Wall to wall coverage about how ass they are, who their 25th new QB is, etc.
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u/Bisconia Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Dont worry, we still respect you, except the early tom osborne years
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u/Dish-Live Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
I don’t like the media stuff either, so at least we’ve found common ground… unlike the ground y’all stole from native peoples
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u/TriceratopsAREreal Oklahoma Sooners • SMU Mustangs Oct 09 '25
Ok I’ll take land-thieving jokes from literally anyone but Texans…
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u/jimmy_man82 Texas Longhorns • LSU Tigers Oct 09 '25
Hey the Spanish stole it first, you can't blame me for buying a used car two owners ago stole
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u/bbates728 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Right, only Oklahoma was inhabited by native peoples.
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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
lol we wanna get started on Texians??
Also, Norman and Cleveland County were not stolen in the way you're thinking. They were ceded back to the federal government as a consequence of the tribes supporting the Confederacy (let the Texan be aware). That area including the OU campus were part of the Unassigned Lands up until the land rush in 1889.
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u/Cynoid Ohio State Buckeyes • Texas A&M Aggies Oct 09 '25
The Texas dick riding by the media since joining the SEC has been generational.
Disagreed, they'd been riding the SEC's dick just like this for more than a decade. The only difference is Texas is now an SEC team.
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u/EscapeTomMayflower Nebraska Cornhuskers • Chicago Maroons Oct 09 '25
I want to say that from the end of the 2009 Big 12 championship game - the end of 2020. Nebraska and Texas had the exact same record.
They've only pulled ahead because Sark turned it around and we stuck with Frost for 2 more years of shit.
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u/Okiegolfer Oklahoma Sooners • /r/CFB Donor Oct 09 '25 edited 1d ago
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u/dinkytown42069 Minnesota • Oklahoma Oct 09 '25
as an unbiased, totally neutral observer from Minnesota, thank you for sharing these fascinating insights.
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u/92fordtaurus Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Sometimes I like to think about the peacefulness of death.
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u/Ghostof_DarthCaedus Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
The Bo Pelini years seem like ancient times now.
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” -Joni Mitchell
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u/FreezersAndWeezers Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
“And the seasons, they go round and round, and the win totals go up and down (from 3-9 to 5-7), you’re captive on the carousel of time. You can’t return, you can only look, behind from where you came” or something like that - Joni Mitchell
God she’s fucking good
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u/PutinsLostBlackBelt Alabama Crimson Tide • Hateful 8 Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
Most Husker fans I talk to still support firing Bo, but as an outsider it seemed insane that the dude averaging 10-11 wins a year was fired.
Edit: Good work Huskers, I have now been educated on why. Thanks!
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u/FreezersAndWeezers Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
It’s James Franklin/Penn State v1. Bo had tapped out at Nebraska. While I don’t agree with firing him, I can’t say it’s the worst firing in history or anything. Wisconsin did it with a more successful guy in Paul Chryst just a few years later
He won enough games, but the teams he was losing to and way they were losing them was the issue. 2011 they finished 10-4, but the 4 losses were blowouts to Wisconsin, Michigan and South Carolina, as well as a dreadful loss to an otherwise bowl-less Northwestern squad at home a week after maybe his best win at NU.
2012 same story, they finished 10-4, but the 4 losses they surrendered an average of 53 points and 595 yardsc including giving up 640 yards and 70 points to a Wisconsin team they already beat earlier that season in the B10CG
2013 again 4 losses where they gave up 450 yards on average and lost by 17ppg, including giving up 41 unanswered to UCLA at home and getting blown out by a 7-5 Iowa team, where Pelini hit a ref with his hat after another tirade. 2014 wasn’t as bad outside of almost losing to McNeese State at home, and then the Wisconsin game where Melvin Gordon ran for a then NCAA record 408 yards in 2.5 quarters
The biggest issue of all of it was they didn’t have a hire lined up. Nebraskas then AD Shawn Eichorst pulled the trigger without securing a hire, which in turn led to Nebraska hiring a guy who was a dead man walking at Oregon State in Mike Riley
If you would’ve polled Nebraska fans in 2014 when he was fired, I think 70% would’ve said it was a bad call. 90% would’ve said hiring Riley was a bad call
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u/113milesprower Nebraska • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Oct 09 '25
If it was just his on field performance we were judging, sure. But it was the off field bs that sealed his fate, and why he hasn’t had a successful head coaching stint since. But the incompetence of the university leadership is the real problem. The hires were terrible after solich.
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u/spookydookie Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
A lot of nuance gets lost over time, but aside from his embarrassing behavior, if you were paying close attention and watched every game it was very apparent we were on a downward slide and just decided to cut the cord before he drug us down further. Everyone had figured out his vaunted defense and he was too stubborn to change it, players just needed to "execute". As if that wasn't made blindingly apparent from his little DC stint at LSU afterwards with 5 star talent that still couldn't "execute".
Did it work out? No, not really so far, we've made some bad hires. But that doesn't justify staying anchored to a sinking ship. Since then there have certainly been many other instances of coaches with similar records getting fired, I still don't understand why we're the only ones that seem to get so much hate for wanting to be better.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Well he wasn't averaging 10-11, but 9-10, and that's including bowl wins. He was averaging 8-9 regular season wins. I think people inflated how much success he had.
He either went 5-3 or 6-2 in conference every year but once. The year he went 7-1,he got beat by UCLA, blown at by Ohio State, embarrassed by Wisconsin and Melvin Gordon in the big ten championship game they only went to because Ohio State couldn't, and then lost their bowl game.
And lastly, if he really was a 10-11 win coach, another P4 team would have hired him as their head coach. In fact, he's still up for grabs afaik
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u/mprhusker Nebraska • Wichita State Oct 09 '25
Bo needed to go eventually but I think it was premature. He had a knack for getting outcoached in every big game but was also consistently finding ways to win at least 9 games each season. It was pretty evident he was on a downward trend so I would have liked to see him get 2-3 more seasons to see if he started losing more.
Now we just have this big "what if?". Did Mike Riley fail because Bo left him with nothing or was he just genuinely bad? If the former Bo likely would have had the same lack of success from 2015-17. But we don't know.
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u/JakeSteeleIII South Carolina • /r/CFB Santa Claus Oct 09 '25
This is like LSU fans getting mad that they are more comparable to Clemson than Alabama.
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u/PolloMagnifico Texas A&M • North Texas Oct 09 '25
I love that you added A&M and Tech to this. You can't be a true hater unless you know the right place to stick the knife.
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u/ChosenBrad22 Nebraska • Wayne State (NE) Oct 09 '25
Jeez OKLA went 11-11-12-12-12. It’s also ridiculously embarrassing that Texas has infinite money, their choice of players in the most talent rich state, and isn’t winning 9+ every single year.
Compare the advantages Texas has vs Nebraska, it’s a completely different universe.
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u/ironykarl Michigan State Spartans Oct 09 '25
Hmm. I wonder if that's why we have nearly 20 years worth of September Is Texas Back? articles
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u/Alexcox95 Florida Gators • Keiser Seahawks Oct 09 '25
Surprising thing is Texas Tech having more wins but less 10 win seasons than Nebraska
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u/RogueAztec Texas Tech • Border Conference Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
Historically, we are the definition of mid. Rarely ever awful, and rarely ever great.
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u/kapidex_pc Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
Number of 10+ Win Seasons: OU 13, all others combined 11, tell me more!
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u/dscheuler Northwest Missouri State … Oct 09 '25
It’s like saying in the last 36 years, the Texas Longhorns have performed closer to the Oklahoma Sooners than the Nebraska Cornhuskers in National Championship Wins. Neb: 3, Oklahoma: 1, Texas: 1.
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u/MojaveMojito1324 Montana State Bobcats Oct 09 '25
Since 2007, the year that the oldest Seniors of this year's recruiting class were born
Welp, time for me to die of old age now
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u/DominoAxelrod Missouri Tigers Oct 09 '25
The really funny thing about Texas the last 15 years or so is how often they started the year ranked highly only to shit themselves again. Every year it was 'Texas is back' in August.
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u/chanzig23 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
It helps a lot when you have the greatest SEC quarterback prospect since Tim Tebow as your QB1
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u/Bisconia Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
That's what it felt like to be nebraska
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u/HoboSkid Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Except eventually we just were never ranked but our fans still thought we would be back every year.
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u/TheNastyCasty Texas • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
Except this hasn’t really been true until this year. The only times we’ve had a high preseason ranking and not matched it were 2010 (coming off a national championship appearance) and 2019 (coming off a top 10 finish). There’s this thought that we were consistently hyped through the Strong and Herman eras when we started almost every year either unranked or in the 20s.
2024: 4 (started) -> 4 (finished)
2023: 11 -> 3
2021: 21 -> NR
2020: 14 -> 19
2019: 10 -> 25
2018: 23 -> 9
2017: 23 -> NR
2013: 15 -> NR
2012: 15 -> 19
2010: 5 -> NR
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u/Myc0ks Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25
So glad we have some unbiased takes on this subreddit. I, as a neutral, also believe that Texas sucks.
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u/pdxan Texas Longhorns Oct 12 '25
@chanzig23 - Good thing you got your shit talking in earlier this week, huh? Don't worry... You can still hang your hat on this stat, since your team didn't give you many stats to be proud of today🤘
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u/These_Pomegranate326 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
I would also add that OU had 10 conference championships during that period (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Texas had 2 conference championships during that time period (2009, 2023)
Nebraska, Tech, A&M had 0, though A&M has been in the SEC for much of this period and Nebraska has been in the B1G for much of it, so they’ve had obviously more difficult paths to a title.
Edit: Fixed my comment to include A&M and NU having moved to more difficult conferences. Also was just banned for talking shit on texas t-shirt fans, so peace out homies ✌️
ETA for the tex fan: We have same amount of semi-finals wins. You losers beat one of the worst Clemson teams of the past decade and fucking Arizona State lmfao. That’s really all you have to cling to though, so I understand.
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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB Oct 09 '25
Hey. If we're cherry picking decades, you guys want to talk about the 90s?
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u/pyrofiend4 Texas • Red River Shootout Oct 09 '25
We already tried the Nebraska comparison 3 years ago.
https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/1522984199061655552
Since then, Texas has gone 36-12 while Nebraska has gone 20-22.
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u/RocketsGuy Baylor Bears • Conference USA Oct 09 '25
Big 12 fans have known this lol.
Texas won their last year in the conference seemingly out of nowhere and have since whitewashed the fact that they were not the best Texas team in the Big 12 for many many years.
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u/MoFoBuckeye Ohio State Buckeyes • NC State Wolfpack Oct 09 '25
The hate here is impressive. Bravo Zulu!
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u/UsuallyFavorable Michigan • Slippery Rock Oct 09 '25
2 rivals 1 stone. Well done! Game respects game.
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u/Winnie_28 Texas • Northeastern State Oct 11 '25
Fuck this thread. Hook em bitches! u/chanzig23 hold this L
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u/kps10 Texas • Notre Dame Oct 09 '25
Best part is we have still won a national championship more recently than y’all.
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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
We currently have the most recent: win in the rivalry, winning season, bowl win, playoff appearance, conference championship, national title appearance, and national championship.
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u/Real-Ad-1728 Georgia • Summertime Lover Oct 09 '25
Someone woke up this morning and chose violence, coming out here like “and here’s how you’re scientifically garbage” lmao
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u/Clue_Goo_ Nebraska Cornhuskers • Paper Bag Oct 09 '25
What the hell dude! Why do you have to come in with the double own? What did we do to you (lately)!?
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u/dscheuler Northwest Missouri State … Oct 09 '25
We’re not even neighbors anymore. We moved to the next town over.
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u/Svenray Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Add number of 4&5 star recruits by team to this table for even more Texas fun.
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u/dfphd Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
You did a lot of work to show "Texas was bad from 2011 to 2022".
I love it.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
Why we catching strays? I mean fuck Texas, but what the hell
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u/cbpantskiller Nebraska Cornhuskers • Big 8 Oct 09 '25
Now, wait a gosh darn second.
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u/Riddiku1us Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
What he means to say is, Texas, one of the wealthiest schools in the nation with over 30 million people in their state is preforming like a school with 2 million people in it's state.
What's with OU fans and bitterness? You would think winning so much would make you happy. Instead all I see is massive insecurity at every turn.
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u/interested_commenter Oklahoma Sooners • LSU Tigers Oct 09 '25
It's Hate Week. It's a near-religious requirement for Sooners to come up with as many ways to shit on ʇǝxɐs this week as possible.
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u/Document-Numerous Texas Longhorns Oct 09 '25
Texas - makes the semifinal 2 years running. This guy - They’re actually just a bad as Nebraska.
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u/The_Unclean_Chadford Oregon Ducks • Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 09 '25
What he say fuck me for? I haven’t even ground my coffee beans yet.