Texas was initially scheduled to end the 2020 regular season with a trip to Oklahoma State on Saturday, Nov. 28. Instead, the Longhorns will once again play a game the day after Thanksgiving with the Big 12 announcement Thursday that the game between Texas and the Cowboys has been moved to Black Friday, Nov. 27.

Television information and kickoff time for the game will be announced at a later date.

Since the Longhorns last played a game on Thanksgiving in 2015 (a 48-45 home loss to a Texas Tech club quarterbacked by Patrick Mahomes), Texas has played each of the four subsequent seasons on Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend. That includes the 2019 season where head coach Tom Herman saw his charges end the regular season on a high note with a 49-24 thumping of the Red Raiders before defeating Utah in the Alamo Bowl, 38-10, to wrap up an 8-5 season.

A 2018 trip to Kansas where the Longhorns recorded a 24-17 win to secure a berth in the Big 12 championship game was the first time for Texas to play a game away from Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving weekend since the program’s series with Texas A&M ended. A 40-yard game-winning field goal by Justin Tucker to defeat the Aggies at Kyle Field in 2011, 27-25, not only ended the series, but it began a stretch of four years in a row where Texas played a home game Thanksgiving night.

If nothing else, the series between Texas and Oklahoma State has been entertaining of late, even if head Mike Gundy has had a tremendous amount of success when facing the Longhorns. After losing his first five meetings with Texas, Gundy led Oklahoma State to victory in seven of nine meetings with the Longhorns, including five in a row in Austin before Herman's squad claimed a 36-30 win in the 2019 conference opener for both teams on Sept. 21.

The last time Texas traveled to Stillwater to face the Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium, recently-hired offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich and quarterback Taylor Cornelius led a potent attack that upset the No. 6-ranked Longhorns, 38-35. Yurcich spent six seasons as Gundy's offensive coordinator and after a one-year run as the passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Ohio State, Herman hired Yurcich to run and revamp the power spread offense on the Forty Acres.

"This is a guy that in his six years at Oklahoma State, you look at the numbers and they're off the charts," Herman said of Yurcich the day before the Alamo Bowl, which was the first time he was able to field questions about the hiring process.

"According to Coach Gundy, who I spoke to, he said [Yurcich is] an unbelievable play-caller," he added. "Very rhythmic, very detail-oriented in the way that he develops quarterbacks and offenses."

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Yurcich inherits senior quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who has completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 564 yards and six touchdowns with only one interception in his last two meetings with the Cowboys (Ehlinger has also rushed for 117 yards and an average of 5.9 yards per attempt with two rushing touchdowns in those meetings. Ehlinger and offensive tackle Samuel Cosmi headline the offensive returnees for the Longhorns, but the focus of a battle on paper between Texas and Oklahoma State is how outside linebacker Joseph Ossai and the 10 returning defensive starters stack up against an Oklahoma State offense that returns arguably the best collection of offensive skill talent in the Big 12 with quarterback Spencer Sanders, All-American running back Chuba Hubbard and wide receiver Tylan Wallace.