Texas’ shutout win in the Red River Showdown was the Longhorns’ largest margin of...
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers celebrates by donning the golden hat with fans after winning an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma 49-0 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. DALLAS — Per a time-honored State Fair of Texas tradition, the purest form of misery is served deep-fried, beer-soaked and early in the afternoon, with a cruel sun still high enough in the sky to extract maximum droplets of despair.
It wasn’t just that Ojomo’s Longhorns finally beat the hated Sooners for the first time in five meetings. With a heartless, thorough 49-0 thrashing, UT subjected OU to the kind of humiliation that usually goes in the other direction this time of year. “I think they were trying to fight,” Ojomo said diplomatically of the Sooners, who lost for the third straight week while being held scoreless for the first time since 1998. “It’s hard to fight when you’re down that much.”
Without Gabriel to worry about, Ojomo and the UT defense suffocated a Sooners offense that never had any clear idea of what it was doing, and mystifyingly abandoned the few approaches that seemed to work.