The Texas football program was able to open up Big 12 play with a win over the previously stingy Oklahoma State Cowboys to get the third victory of the 2019 regular season. Oklahoma State had won four straight against Texas, five straight in Austin at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, and seven of the last nine overall.
It was clear that head coach Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State had the number of the Texas Longhorns football program dating through three coaching tenures on the Forty Acres. The first was the end to the Mack Brown-era in Austin.