If I have to pick only one ou game, I have to choose... Earl 1977 game was redemption. Horns had 6 losses and a painful tie after 1970. Finally delivered from us from Barney Switzer Evil !!!
Like several other posters, my favorite OU win was the 1977 game in which Earl, Russell Erxleben and the defense all starred in. For those that don't remember, Texas lost both Mark McBath and Jon Aune (QBs) to injuries early in the game and Randy McEachern came in and "managed" the Horns to a victory. Erxleben connected on field goals of 58 and 64 yards and averaged close to 50 yards punting. The defense was amazing and the energy in the Cotton Bowl was off the chart. That game helped create the momentum for the Horns to win out in the regular season including a decisive win in College Station which clinched the Heisman for Earl. Sadly the season ended in a bitterly cold Cotton Bowl match up against a much larger Notre Dame team. For the next six years the Horns built a national presence with defense and special teams their strength That six year run ended on the infamous fumbled punt by Jitter Fields against Georgia which cost the Horns the national championship. Many lean years followed, but during this time there were many successes against OU.
Craig Curry fumbled the punt. Jitter was the other returner, yelled out "you you you". Craig was a great safety . Not good... Great. His career was something to be proud of. In the end Miami was going to be voted #1, even with a loss on their schedule. They beat the corn. Krld radio did a poll a few weeks after the bowl games, almost all AP voters they asked said they'd pick Miami over Texas. Not what we'd like, but it's how they would vote. CFB was so f'd up back then 83 defense . Still the best, most dominant I've ever seen
I was 8 in 1977 and living in Texas for 3 years. I'm sure that game was great. Like I said, for me, this was the most fun and least stress I can remember watching us beat OU on TV.
Have to mention the 1979 win also. Held Billy Sims to 50 yards or so. That was big after getting beat in 78 when we had some breaks go against us.
Horn2Run, The 79 game saw the million-dollar OU backfield destroyed. OU got 5 first downs (2 on penalties, 2 on busted plays, one earned the hard way); the last busted play with under a minute left elevated their total offense over 100 yards. If not for that play, Leon's D holds Barry's boys to under 90 yards total offense. Damn I love defense. To quote my good friend Rick Lantz - "Before you can win, you gotta defend". And, Worster, the blonde in the blue jean mini skirt from Floydada that came and sat down next to me after the game wasn't half bad. My daughter didn't approve.
The last time Texas held OU scoreless was 1965....57 years ago in a 19-0 win. This marks the 11th shutout of OU in the 118 game series with almost all of them in the 1940's or earlier. This is a special day to enjoy for a while.
Yes, and I don't give a damn if OU was crippled by relying on backup QBs. To pitch a shutout at those ******** is exceptionally satisfying.
Any time beating OU is epic. But 1963 gets my vote. OU was #1, UT was #2. We destroyed them 28-7. On our way to first national championship. I was 8. First time I ever heard us serenade those poor Okies!!
My mistake on Jitter Fields. I believe Jeff Ward missed a very make able field goal in the second half which would have given the Horns 12 points and a win. Completely agree with your statement on the 83 defense, the best ever for the Horns. That team ended up having 17 players drafted in the NFL. It all unwound very quickly the next year, not unlike the year after Colt McCoy graduated.
2013 gets my vote. We'd been blown out in 2011 and 2012 and Mack was on the hot seat. The 2012 game was probably our worst performance ever, we didn't look like we wanted to be there and they just bullied and shoved us around all day and we put up no resistance. Now in 2013 we'd already fired our defensive coordinator and lost our starting QB for the year, and the week before we'd needed some dubious officiating to beat an Iowa State team (that went 3-9 that season) by 1 point. I have never been more sure in my life that we were going to get blown out. Instead, we somehow turned into the 2005 team in the trenches, kept the Belldozer constantly under pressure and forced him into -27 rushing yards, and on offense we were blowing their several yards off the line. It was a pretty simple offense - run a bunch with Jonathan Gray and Malcom Brown, maybe throw just beyond the stick to Shipley if it was 3rd in long, and once per drive run play-action and take a deep shot. Final score 36-20 but it wasn't that close, we were up 36-13 near the end of the third and just played keep-away the rest of the game.
Yesterday was fun but for those of us who went to school in the late 80's and early 90's you cant know what it felt like in 1989 to break the streak going back to 1983 of not winning and with last second pass to Johnny Walker no less. Second on my list is 2005 also stopping a five year run of not winning.
I hear ya, but again I am just talking sheer fun and lack of stress at halftime pretty much knowing the game was in hand. 1989 was a close game. I was at 2005, so I mentioned that. But, that game was not in hand at halftime.
When OU got to the red zone on their first possession and tried to get their third fourth-down conversion, our D stuffed them. I said to my brother who had come over for the game, "That was a big 'F U.' I hope we shut them out." And the rest of the game was totally satisfying. Most satisfying game: I was at the '83 game. That defense was so dominatingly impressive all year. I would say the years of Peter the Great over-achieving or '94 ending in Stoney's goal-line stuff would rate as my favorite.
I'm showing my age but 1963. This was the year we finally got our first NC and it wasn't easy. In the past we would lose to a top team or a weaker team would get an upset on us like the prior two years TCU upset us and the next year a 14-14 tie with Rice did us in. But everthing fell int o place. Navy was final no.two team with wins over eventual No. 3 Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Michigan. Oklahoma was No. 1 when we played them and they were favored as they had beaten the prior No. 1 team and 1962 NCs. We surprised them 28-7 and got the No. 1 ranking and kept it till we beat Navy i n the Cotton Bowl but it wasn 't easy
We would have eclipsed the 50-point barrier, and by a great margin, if Sarkisian had left the starters in. I wish he had. I wanted to beat them so badly that it would make them question every life choice they ever made. I wanted them — players, coaches, fans — completely demoralized.
Don’t forget that we beat them with a third-string QB who had never taken a snap with the first team.
