The Oklahoma Sooners (5-1 overall, 1-1 in the SEC) are looking for a bounce-back performance this weekend. After suffering their first loss of the season last week against the Texas Longhorns, OU will be on the road this week against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Until they left for the Southeastern Conference, OU was an unstoppable force in the Big 12 Conference for a quarter-century.

N ORMAN — OU football offensive lineman Derek Simmons is available to play against South Carolina after being left off Wednesday's SEC availability report. Simmons exited against Texas with an apparent ankle injury and didn't return. Sooners coach Brent Venables said Tuesday he's "day-to-day."

The Texas Longhorns beat their first Power Four opponent of the 2025 season in a big way on Saturday, defeating their archrival, the Oklahoma Sooners, by a score of 23-6.

On Saturday, the sixth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners lost 23-6 to the Texas Longhorns in the Red River Rivalry. For the third time in four years under head coach Brent Venables, Oklahoma failed to score a touchdown against its biggest rival. The Sooners are now 1-3 against Texas under Venables.

Arch Manning and Texas finally figured some things out on Saturday afternoon and picked up their first Power 4 win of the season.

With Dylan Stewart and Bryan Thomas Jr. on the edges, the Gamecocks will pose a major challenge to the Sooners' offense.

Texas football picked up a huge win over Oklahoma last Saturday. Here's how it impacted the Longhorns' place in our weekly SEC power rankings.