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Oklahoma has dominated recent history:
While Texas has won more games historically, there is no doubt that in recent years the edge has gone to Oklahoma. Starting in Bob Stoops’ second season in Norman in 2000, the Sooners have won 10 of the last 16 overall, including a five-win stretch from 2000-04, with three straight wins from 2010-12. Texas hasn’t won more than two straight this century.
OU has had more recent success, with less talent:
For years, former Texas coach Mack Brown was known as “Mr. February,” a condescending nickname that implied he won big during the recruiting season (in February) but never won when it counted
The Sooners own the biggest beat down in rivalry history
Amongst those 10 wins in the last 16 years is the most epic beat down in the history of the rivalry. It came at the Texas state fairgrounds over a decade ago when the Sooners put a 65-13 whooping on the Longhorns.
Oklahoma is the better program
Look, we can sit here and debate a lot of things about this rivalry, but one thing is unequivocal fact: Oklahoma has the better program.
The Sooners have produced a staggering seven Heisman Trophy winners compared to just two from Texas, including the most recent for either team -- Sam Bradford in 2008 (and that doesn’t even include Heisman winners like Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel, who wanted to go to Texas before the Longhorns passed on them. Whoops.).
Then there are the national titles, and nothing makes a stronger case than the trophy case, where Oklahoma has seven compared to four from Texas.
Oklahoma has had bigger personalities through the years
Now, obviously there’s no real way to quantify this, but doesn’t it just seem like the Sooners have had more entertaining personalities through the years? There was Brian Bosworth, “The Boz,” the two-time Butkus Award winner, who wore dyed hair and laid vicious hits. There was his coach, Barry Switzer, who liked to hang "half a hundred" on folks, and always loved to tell a wild story or two.
