The No. 1 Texas Longhorns (5-0, 1-0) look to stay unbeaten when they take on the No. 18 Oklahoma Sooners (4-1, 1-1) on Saturday in the 2024 Red River Rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Kickoff for this SEC matchup is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET. Both teams are coming off Week 6 byes and have had two weeks to prepare for this matchup. The Longhorns defeated Mississippi State 35-13 in their last outing in the first SEC start for quarterback Arch Manning. Quinn Ewers will return for Texas after missing two games with an abdominal injury. Oklahoma is looking to build off a 27-21 win over Auburn in its last outing. Texas is 4-1 and Oklahoma is 3-2 against the spread in 2024. 

The Longhorns are 16.5-point favorites in the latest Texas vs. Oklahoma odds via SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is 49. Texas is a -935 (risk $935 to win $100) favorite on the money line, with Oklahoma listed as a +598 underdog (see up-to-date odds for every game this week on our college football odds page). 

Before you make any Oklahoma vs. Texas picks or any other college football predictions, you NEED to see which side proven SportsLine expert Jimmie Kaylor is on. 

Kaylor is a NFL, college football and DFS expert for SportsLine, who has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. His background as a former college football All-American and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks. He has his finger on the pulse of the college football landscape and has been cashing in big for the last two years. 

Kaylor destroyed the books in college football in 2023, netting a whopping 57.9 units while posting a 107-45-2 record. Anyone who followed his picks finished the season WAY UP!

Now, Kaylor has locked in a confident against-the-spread pick for Texas vs. Oklahoma in their Week 7 Red River Showdown matchup. We can tell you he's leaning Under on the point total, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

Who wins Oklahoma vs. Texas in the 2024 Red River Rivalry game on Saturday, and what critical X-factor makes one side of the spread a must-back? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the spread to jump on, all from the expert who went 107-45-2, returning $5,790 for $100 bettors, betting on college football in 2023, and find out!

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