Regular season ·

Oklahoma beat Texas

No. 6 Oklahoma6-055
No. 21 Texas4-248Final
Sat, Oct 9 · Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas (neutral site) · Crowd 92,100 · 80°, mainly clearABC

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Oklahoma trailed Texas by 21 points in the 1st quarter and won 55-48, October 9, 2021.

Oklahoma was No. 6 and Texas No. 21 in the AP poll before the game.

How the game turned

Oklahoma aheadTexas aheadLow: 5%
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Q4 7:10 Oklahoma 48, Texas 41

Oklahoma 89% to win

Brooks 18-yd TD run, Oklahoma goes ahead 48-41

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 14:45 · Oklahoma 14, Texas 28Oklahoma's win chance rose from 8% to 19%.Williams 66-yd TD run, cuts it to 28-14
  2. 2Q4 7:25 · Oklahoma 41, Texas 41Oklahoma's win chance rose from 14% to 52%.Williams 52-yd TD pass to Mims, two-point try good, ties it 41-41
  3. 3Q4 7:10 · Oklahoma 48, Texas 41Oklahoma's win chance rose from 52% to 89%.Brooks 18-yd TD run, Oklahoma goes ahead 48-41
  4. 4Q4 1:23 · Oklahoma 48, Texas 48Oklahoma's win chance fell from 86% to 60%.Thompson 31-yd TD pass to Worthy, ties it 48-48
  5. 5Q4 0:03 · Oklahoma 55, Texas 48Oklahoma's win chance rose from 72% to 100%.Brooks 33-yd TD run, Oklahoma wins it 55-48

Oklahoma's lowest chance to win was 5 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Oklahoma took the lead for good with 0:03 left in the 4th quarter, Oklahoma 55, Texas 48.

What happened next

  1. Oklahoma's next game: W 52-31 vs TCU, Oct 16

    7 days later

  2. Texas's next game: L 24-32 vs Oklahoma State, Oct 16

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 9, 2021: Texas 49, Oklahoma 0, Oct 8, 2022

    about 12 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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