The betting odds for the Red River Rivalry have changed more than the weather in Oklahoma before the No. 6 Sooners finally play unranked Texas at 2:30 p.m. CT Saturday at Cotton Bowl Stadium.
After Texas was a surprise favorite to start the week on Monday, the odds then swung in the Sooners’ favor after injured OU quarterback John Mateer was listed as probable on Thursday evening. However, on the morning of the game with fans dressed in crimson and burnt orange already filing into the State Fair of Texas, Vegas again has the Longhorns as the favorites.
Final betting odds for Oklahoma vs Texas in Red River Rivalry
On Saturday morning, DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM had Texas favored all of a sudden after all had the Sooners favored just the day before. DraftKings and FanDuel put the Sooners as 1.5-point underdogs, while BetMGM had it at only a point, making it where regardless of who’s favored by kickoff, Vegas believes the Red River Rivalry is a toss-up.
Texas was as much as a 3-point favorite by DraftKings on Monday. On Tuesday, after a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel that “there’s a belief that (Mateer’s) return is possible,” that spread shrunk to 1.5 point…