Best Red River Showdown performances of the decade – 247Sports

Just before Texas' Cameron Dicker made the kick to beat Oklahoma last year, FOX Sports announcer Gus Johnson boomed that Dicker was kicking for a place in "Red River immortality."

Really, there are few better ways to describe it. Anyone familiar with the history of the rivalry knows the names that make it arguably the greatest rivalry in college football, from Stoney Clark's stop to Roy Williams' Superman.

And plenty of players in the past decade (2010-on) have made their marks on the Red River Showdown as well. We asked Jeff Howe of Horns247 and Joey Helmer of OUInsider both of whom took in every game between the two schools over that time period for the five best from the school they cover. And to mix things up, we tried to keep it to one player on either side of the ball per year; while it would be easy to pick several Texas defenders from the 2015 game, or Oklahoma offensive players from the following year, we looked for one player who truly swung things in his team's favor.

The result is a reminder of just how good individual Texas and Oklahoma players have been over the past decade; for those who took in these games, they may wind up telling their own children and grandchildren about these players, the way Clark and Williams have already been passed down.

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Best Red River Showdown performances of the decade - 247Sports