Report: 2024 Red River Showdown kickoff time, TV designation leaked for Oklahoma, Texas

Details regarding one of college football’s biggest rivalry games were released on Thursday, with college football insider Brett McMurphy reporting that Texas and Oklahoma will square off in the Red River Showdown on October 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET in a matchup airing on either ESPN or ABC.

The Longhorns and Sooners typically kick off at noon ET for their annual rivalry game in the Cotton Bowl. But for the program’s first matchup as new members of the SEC, things will look a little different in Dallas ahead of the highly anticipated game.

The 2024 Red River Rivalry will represent the 120th time that the two programs have faced off dating back to 1900. With Oklahoma pulling off a thrilling 34-30 win in a back-and-forth matchup in last year’s game and taking home The Golden Hat in five of the last six matchups. But Texas does still maintain the all-time series lead at 63–51–5.

The schedule change and TV designation for Texas and Oklahoma’s iconic showdown comes ahead of the first season of a brand new television deal between the SEC and ESPN/ABC. A 10-year deal that was inked in 2020 worth nearly $3 billion, which the Longhorns and Sooners made themselves a part of a year later announcing their move to the SEC from the Big 12 Conference in 2021.

Game times have also been announced for several of Texas and Oklahoma’s games early in the upcoming season. As Texas’ opener will be against Colorado State at 3:30 p.m. ET on August 31 in a matchup airing on ESPN followed by a Week 2 game the following Saturday at Michigan. Which will kick off at noon ET but has not yet been designated to a network.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma opens up the season on a Friday night at 7:00 p.m. ET versus Temple on August 30 and airing on ESPN. Followed by back-to-back Saturday matchups against Houston at 7:45 p.m. ET and Tulane at 3:30 p.m. according to Sooner Scoop’s Georgia Stoia.

Texas and Oklahoma’s entry into the SEC also rekindles several old rivalries from the past.

Oklahoma will take on Missouri for the Tiger–Sooner Peace Pipe for the first time since 2011 when both programs were members of the Big 12. A rivalry that dates back to when the conference was the Big Six in the 1940s. While Texas will end the regular season with the return of one of college football’s biggest in-state rivalries. Facing off against Texas A&M 119th time in late November, also for the first time since 2011.