Talk:2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game

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[edit] Article creation

I created this article by splitting off and expanding upon material from the 2005 Texas Longhorn football team article. This was done as a result of a Wikipedia:Good Article review to better comply with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, specifically WP:SIZE. Since the main article has gotten rather long, I am splitting out several of the major games to their own articles as recommended in WP:SUMMARY.

For GFDL purposes, authors of the 2005 Texas Longhorn football team prior to this April 18, 2007 should be included as authors of this page. Johntex\^talk 09:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A note on the significance of this game

Some editors believe that only significant football games deserver their own article. There are several features that made this particular game important and worthy of its own article, including:

1. The 100th meeting of a major inter-state rivalry
2. Two teams that started the season ranked in the top 10
3. One of the two teams (Oklahoma) had played for the national title the preceeding 2 years in a row
4. The other team (Texas) went on to win the national championship for this year.
5. Texas likely could not have won the national championship without winning this game.
6. Snapped a historic loosing streak for Texas (dating back to the 1950's) for loses to Oklahoma
7. The game was seen as a vindication for Texas coach Mack Brown who previously had been criticized for running a successful program overall, but for not being able to beat Oklahoma
8. It was the largest margin of victory for UT through the course of the 100 game series.
9. The game played to an over-official-capacity crown (72,000+) and an ABC television audiance. It was also preceeded on television by a special program recapping the first 99 years of the rivalry.

Johntex\^talk 07:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Well-written article, but unless you're a fan of one of the two teams, i fail to see how this qualifies as the subject for a Wiki-article... --dllu 14:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

We have articles on all sorts of things. Have you ever read spoo? There is no requirement that every single person in the world must care about an article for us to include it. How many articles have you read on small villages in China, or in Inidana, for that matter? Johntex\^talk 14:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)