The State Fair Classic, known as the Southwest Airlines State Fair Classic, is an annual college football game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Prairie View A&M University Panthers of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, the game often occurs the weekend before the Oklahoma–Texas Red River Showdown game, the Red River Showdown, is an American college football rivalry game played annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium in which city in Texas, during the second weekend of the State Fair of Texas in October?
Red River Showdown The Red River Showdown, commonly called the Red River Rivalry, the Red River Classic, or the Red River Shootout, is an American college football rivalry game played annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas, during the second weekend of the State Fair of Texas in October. The participants are the Oklahoma Sooners football team of the University of Oklahoma and the Texas Longhorns football team of the University of Texas at Austin. The game is played the week following the State Fair Classic featuring Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University. The series is one of the major rivalries in NCAA football and in all of American sports. The name is derived from the Red River that forms part of the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma that has in the past caused conflict between the two states, most notably the 1931 Red River Bridge War.
1940 Cotton Bowl Classic The 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic was a postseason college football bowl game between the Clemson Tigers and the Boston College Eagles.