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Entries from Austinist tagged with 'cottonbowl'

October 5, 2007

#19 Texas (4-1) vs. #10 Oklahoma (4-1) Time: 2:30 pm, Saturday, Oct. 6 Location: Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas TV: KVUE (ABC) Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) One of the realities of college football is that a single loss, particularly at the wrong time, effectively ends your season. Teams that begin the season with a hope of winning the national championship can see those hopes vanish in the span of four hours on a......

Continue Reading "Football Preview: Texas vs. Oklahoma"

August 14, 2007

Austin ticket broker TicketCity.com has published a list of the top 25 hottest college football games of 2007, based on the average price per ticket, and two University of Texas games are on the list. The Longhorns' game with Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on October 6 is currently #8 (average ticket price $555), while the November 23 game with Texas A&M in College Station is #18 ($402). The face value of......

Continue Reading "Two UT Games Among College Football's Hottest Tickets"

August 28, 2006

You are a Texan, travelling abroad throughout the remote expanse of Eastern Europe. There are no signs of Americanization anywhere. You are wearing cowboy boots. All of the sudden, a young boy comes up to you wearing a Def Leppard t-shirt, jams and white Kaepa high tops. He grins at your boots and exclaims with glee after taking a bendy-straw sip from a can of Coke: “Hey, you are American? And you are from Texas, yes?" You knod affirmatively. "Hey, that’s way cool, my friend! Hey, ride ‘em cowboy! Bang-bang (making finger-guns)! Yeah! You have gun and horse? Hey, don’t mess with Texas! All right!” You roll your eyes. Behold! The power of good advertising. ...

Continue Reading ""Don't Mess With Texas": Famous Slogan Turns 20"

May 4, 2006

The University of Texas and Oklahoma University have agreed to a new 5-year contract that will keep the rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas until 2010. Some were worried that Texas would pull out at the end of the previous contract, and possibly replace the game with a match-up against Arkansas or a home-and-home with OU. The teams did not demand renovations to the old crappy stadium in Dallas. In a press......

Continue Reading "Breaking Sports News: The Red River Shootout to Stay in Dallas"

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