This season, for the first time in 115 years, these two longtime football rivals will play each other twice in the same season. Instead of the Golden Hat trophy going to the winner, though, which is the longtime tradition in the regular-season encounter during the Texas State Fair, this time the winning team receives something even more prestigious: a Big 12 Championship trophy.
And in the case of No. 5-ranked Oklahoma, the payoff could be even greater. Depending on what happens in the championship games in the SEC and the Big Ten, the Sooners could find there way into the College Football Playoff with a victory over the only team to beat them during the regular season, and against a team ranked in the top 15 of the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings.