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Gabriel wills Sooners to Red River upset

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In a slugfest where neither team held momentum beyond a single possession, the 2023 Red River Rivalry saw running and passing quarterback Dillon Gabriel seemingly willing his crimson-striped team on a 5-play, 75-yard, 62-second drive that ended with him zip tossing a pass to Nic Anderson, standing wide open in the Sooners’ end of the Cotton Bowl, with 15 seconds to play in the game and securing a 34-30 upset Oklahoma win over No. 3 Texas at the Texas State Fair on Saturday.

Gabriel’s performance put him in the Oklahoma football history books and convinced national naysayers that all predictions of the demise of the storied Sooner program, which suffered its worst defeat ever in this game last year, were as flimsy as Big Tex’s pants flapping in the breeze at the other end of the midway.

“He was fearless. I don’t put any limits on what Dillon can do. He’s playing as confident as anybody on our team right now. … He’s just a guy that’s gonna find a way to get it done,” Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables said.

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Gabriel fine tunes his play in 50-20 win

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Quarterback Dillon Gabriel had his best game of the season on Saturday night, as the No. 14 Sooners rolled past a fiesty Iowa State club that gave the OU defense a tussle enroute to a more formidable opponent in next week’s contest at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

The Sooners won 50-20. Iowa State kept the game close in the first half. Oklahoma’s defense shut them out in the second.

Gabriel had 366 yards passing, three touchdowns in the air and two with his legs. He completed 67 percent of his passes. It was a fine tuning of quarterback play necessary before the Sooners cross the Red River to play its next opponent, the No. 3 Texas Longhorns, who are having their best season in decades.

Both Oklahoma and Texas enter the annual Red River Rivalry undefeated. Ticket prices for the October 7 game at the stadium plopped in the middle of the Texas State Fair Midway are hovering above $400 a piece.

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