Oklahoma Sooners legend Bob Stoops lays down the truth while talking about new SEC rivalry with Mizzou

With the Oklahoma Sooners being a new SEC team , they will now form new SEC rivalries. The Red River Rivalry will always be a thing with Oklahoma and Texas beating the life out of one another every single year. However, it's time for something new.

This offseason, Sooners players were already trash-talking Ole Miss players, creating a fire to ignite a flame for a potential new rivalry there. However, if you talk to the fan bases, there is a rivalry already forming before the two teams even meet as SEC teams. That would be none other than Oklahoma and Mizzou, who have seen a newfound amount of success as of late.

Mizzou, though, has still never done anything near or close to what the Sooner have done throughout their 100 years of history. Yet, both teams and fan bases are debating about who is better now that the Sooners are in the SEC.

One legend, and one of the best coaches in college football history, had a say on it all.

"We beat the hell out of Missouri, all of a sudden now we're supposed to be afraid of them? A&M, we had them beat 77-0 in the middle of the third quarter. Have they changed that much? Have we changed that much," Bob Stoops said recently.

By the 1930s and 1940s, the "Border War" game became a regular fixture on both teams' schedules, often determining conference championships in the Big Eight Conference, which both teams were members of until 1996 when Missouri left for the Big 12. As of the last game in 2011, Oklahoma led the series 64-51-5. Oklahoma won the last matchup in 2011 38-17, and, they like their chances to repeat that this year.

The Sooners-Mizzou rivalry, while no longer an annual event, remains a significant chapter in college football history, remembered for its competitive games and the cultural significance it held for fans of both universities.

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