It would be easy for one or both teams, regardless of which team dons the Golden Hat, the traditional trophy that goes to the winner of the Oklahoma-Texas football game, to suffer a letdown in the game that follows on the schedule.
The opposite has been true for the Sooners coming out of their annual blood bath with the Longhorns. And Oklahoma fans are clinging to the notion that trend will hold true again this season, when the Sooners travel to Ft. Worth in another week to take on TCU.
In the Big 12 era (since 1996), Oklahoma is 20-2 in the game that immediately follows Texas on the Sooner schedule.