DALLAS — Dillon Gabriel threw a 3-yard landing cross to Nic Anderson with 15 seconds left and Twelfth-ranked Oklahoma gained a fight of unbeatens 34-30 over Refuse. 3 Texas on Saturday of their terminating Crimson River competition duel as Heavy 12 individuals sooner than transferring to the Southeastern Convention.
With the SEC Commissioner in attendance, however no longer the Heavy 12’s, the Sooners and Longhorns performed a vintage that will have to have made Greg Sankey delighted together with his fresh acquisitions.
The region was once collapsing round Gabriel when he threw the game-winner for the Sooners (6-0, 3-0 Heavy 12), to Anderson behind the tip zone.
Gabriel finished 23 of 38 passes for 285 yards and ran 14 instances for 113 yards and a rating. The left-handed quarterback had ignored the Sooners’ 49-0 loss in terminating hour’s duel on account of a concussion.
Texas (5-1, 2-1) had erased a 10-point rarity and brought a 30-27 govern on Bert Auburn’s 3rd grassland objective, a 45-yarder with 1:17 left. The Sooners later went 75 yards in 5 performs, together with Gabriel’s passes of eleven and 28 lawn to Drake Stoops, the senior receiver and son of the previous Sooners educator.
Quinn Ewers finished 31 of 37 passes for 346 yards, however his ultimate throw from related midfield was once knocked ailing related the objective layout as presen expired.
Jonathan Brooks, held out the tip zone on 3 consecutive performs then Texas were given to the 1 on its earlier force, fix the sport at 27-27 on a 29-yard TD run with 6:10 left. Brooks completed with 129 yards speeding.
The Longhorns had long past for it on fourth ailing, however Xavier Valuable was once strike instantly cut of the objective layout then a snappy cross from Ewers. Oklahoma later drove 72 yards sooner than Zach Schmit’s 45-yard grassland objective aim got here up cut.
For Sankey, it was once his first travel to the Atmosphere Truthful of Texas for one in all faculty soccer’s maximum storied rivalries. Former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, with Tampa Bay in its discoverable presen of this NFL season, and actor and Texas superfan Matthew McConaughey had been additionally provide.
Ewers, who had 4 TD passes in terminating hour’s 49-0 romp over the Sooners, threw interceptions at the first two drives Saturday. However the duel was once fix then a wild series that incorporated the ones two selections.
The Sooners led 20-17 then when Schmit kicked a 26-yard grassland objective, his 2nd of the sport, at the ultimate play games of the primary part. They opened the second one part with a 13-play, 75-yard force that ended on Tawee Walker’s 1-yard TD run and made it 27-17.