Army-Navy, Ohio State-Michigan, Auburn-Alabama and Georgia-Florida are some of the others that draw top-of-mind recognition.
What is different about OU-Texas, however — currently referred to as the Red River Showdown — other than the long-standing tradition of dividing the Cotton Bowl stadium equally at the 50-yard line, with half the crowd decked out in the Texas school color of burnt orange and Sooner fans proudly saturating the other half in the color crimson, is the frequency in which one or both teams are highly ranked.
Texas won 38 of the first 60 games in the series, which began in 1900, including eight of the first 10.