Sooners look to continue their dominance of Texas

Coach Bob Stoops' team is seeking its fifth straight win over the Longhorns.
DALLAS (AP) -- Mack Brown and his most important supporters believe his tenure at Texas should not be defined by a four-game losing streak to Bob Stoops and the Oklahoma Sooners.
They may be the only ones.
From casual football fans to die-hard Orangebloods, everyone knows the story: The Sooners own the Longhorns, until proved otherwise.
Oklahoma has pounded Texas by a combined score of 177-54 the past four years, scoring more than 60 twice. The truly embarrassing part for the Longhorns is that they've gone into each game ranked as high as third and no worse than 11th.
Perhaps the ultimate proof Brown is in a Stoops stupor: Texas has lost only four other non-bowl games during that span, never to the same team twice.
Anticipated matchup
The No. 5 Longhorns will get another chance to clear their coach's reputation today against the No. 2 Sooners, in one of the most unique, colorful matchups of all of college football.
As they've done every second today in October since 1929, the schools will meet at the Cotton Bowl, about three hours from each campus. The State Fair of Texas will be in full swing outside the stadium, while the seats inside will be split, crimson-clad fans filling one side, those in burnt orange on the other.
So much more is at stake than one-upmanship between longtime rivals from border states.
The winner becomes the favorite to win the Big 12 South, which means a spot in the league championship game and the chance for an automatic berth into a BCS game. Both teams come in 4-0, 1-0 in conference play.
A fifth straight win over Texas would give Oklahoma its longest streak since 1971-75, when Chuck Fairbanks and Barry Switzer were calling the shots. The only longer one for OU went six games, from 1952-57, the heyday of Bud Wilkinson's career.
The Longhorns also could use a victory to slow the Sooners' recruiting in the Lone Star State. Oklahoma began this season with 52 Texans, including two from last year's crop who were considered the nation's best at their positions: running back Adrian Peterson and quarterback Rhett Bomar.
Ground gainer
Peterson has stepped in and become the first player to open his OU career with four straight 100-yard games. And this is a program that's had three running backs win the Heisman Trophy.
Peterson's reason for going north of the Red River? To play for a team he thought could win a national championship.
Ouch!
Brown did beat Oklahoma in his first two years at Texas, including 1999, Stoops' first season running the Sooners. Both programs were returning to glory then. Stoops' rebuilding was catapulted by a 63-14 victory over Texas in 2000.
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