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The 2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game, played October 8, 2005, was the 100th meeting between the University of Oklahoma and The University of Texas at Austin in a college football game. The annual game between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners is called the Red River Shootout. It is considered by college football coaches to be one of the three greatest rivalry games in college football,〔 and ''Fox Sports'' says the rivalry includes some of the most unusual traditions in the sport.〔〔 The game often has conference or national title significance (as this game did) and the series is unusual in that it is played at a neutral site instead of the home teams' stadium.〔 The 2005 Texas Longhorn football team (variously "Texas" or "UT" or the "Horns") was coached by head football coach Mack Brown and led on the field by quarterback Vince Young. The 2005 Oklahoma Sooners football team (variously "Oklahoma" or "OU") was coached by Bob Stoops with Rhett Bomar at quarterback. This was the fourth game of the 2005 season for both teams. Texas came into the game with a 4–0 record and a No.2 ranking. Oklahoma was 2–2 and unranked.〔 Both teams were 1–0 in conference play. Since the two teams are both in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference, winning this game would be an important step towards winning the Division and possibly the Conference.〔 For Texas, a loss would likely eliminate hope of them playing in the BCS National Championship Game.〔 Prior to the game, UT was favored by 14 points.〔 They took an early 7-point lead and led for the rest of the game.〔 Although the score was close for the first quarter, Texas eventually won the game by 33 points, tying the biggest margin of victory for the Longhorns (a 40–7 victory in 1941) in the 100-game history of the rivalry. For Mack Brown, beating Oklahoma for the first time in five years allowed him to "get the monkey off his back" and shed his reputation as a coach incapable of winning the most important games.〔〔〔 The stadium attendance was 75,452 people, and the game was televised over most of the United States on ABC. Texas' win kept them near the front of the national championship picture. They ultimately finished the season unbeaten, snaring the Big 12 Conference and NCAA championships. Oklahoma finished the season with eight wins and four losses and ranked No. 22 in the nation. ==The Red River Shootout== (詳細はOklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns are two of the most storied programs in college football.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bomar's dismissal levels Big 12 playing field )〕 Prior to 2005 each school had participated in college football for more than 100 years.〔 They are home to nationally-known traditions from the Sooner Schooner and the RUF/NEKS at Oklahoma to Bevo and the Hook 'em Horns of Texas. The annual OU/UT football game is considered to be one of the greatest rivalry games in all of college sports.〔 The 2005 matchup was officially called the Red River Rivalry,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=SBC Companies Extend Sponsorship with Universities of Oklahoma and Texas for the SBC Red River Rivalry )〕 but the game is better known by its traditional name, the Red River Shootout. It is played at a neutral site, the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas, amid the atmosphere of the Texas State Fair which is held adjacent to the Cotton Bowl. Dallas is approximately half the distance between the two school campuses, and the stadium is divided down the 50-yard line, with half of the stadium clad in the "crimson and cream" colors of Oklahoma, and the other half wearing the burnt orange and white of Texas.〔 Three rivalry trophies are presented to the winning of each year's contest.〔 The anticipation for the 2005 meeting was especially keen since it marked the 100th Red River Shootout. The game typically has conference or even national significance. Since 1945, one or both of the two teams has been ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation coming into 60 out of 65 games. Prior to the 2005 game, Texas held an advantage in the all-time series 55–39–5, which included a 43–35–4 edge in Dallas, but Oklahoma had won five consecutive games, including the worst loss ever for a Texas team in the series.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=OU-Texas Football Series )〕 That was the longest losing streak for the Longhorns going back to the 1950s and during those five years the Sooners had 189 points to 59 points by UT. Those five straight losses had helped build a reputation for Mack Brown that he was not capable of winning in so-called "Big Games".〔 Four times during those five years, Texas' loss to Oklahoma was what prevented them from playing in the Big 12 Conference Championship Game. The 2005 game was the 100th meeting in the series and a special logo (above right) was created to commemorate the event. The game logo included both team logos as well as the logo of the sponsor for that game, SBC communications, as well as the number 100. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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