As is true most days, the 94-year-old Cotton Bowl on this recent morning was mostly empty, silent. The exception was a group of reporters and their tour guides — three stadium architects with a combined century-plus of experience — pausing in the ground-level concourse,

No. 1 Texas takes on No. 18 Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, and for the first time, it's a Southeastern Conference matchup. Both teams are coming off byes and have had two weeks to prepare for a clash at the State Fair of Texas and capture The Golden Hat.

The Red River Rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners is among the oldest and most storied rivalry games in the history of college football, dating all the way back to 1900 when the teams met for the first time. On Saturday, in 2024, the rivalry will be seeing a change for the very first time.