Gardere 4-0 Against Oklahoma : Nonconference: Texas quarterback completes a perfect run by leading the underdog Longhorns to a 34-24 victory.

The Peter Gardere hex held for a fourth consecutive year.

Gardere threw two touchdown passes Saturday and became the first quarterback in the 87-year history of the Texas-Oklahoma series to win four games, directing the Longhorns to a 34-24 victory over the No. 16 Sooners.

Gardere surpassed Bobby Layne’s series record of 240 yards passing as the Longhorns improved to 3-2. Oklahoma dropped to 3-2.

“It was just a great feeling to go 4-0 against Oklahoma,” Gardere said. “I heard our fans yelling ‘Four More Years’ as I left the field and I heard the Oklahoma fans yelling ‘Graduate, graduate.’ I had to crack a smile at that.”

Said Texas Coach John Mackovic, who was experiencing his first Texas-Oklahoma game: “The emotion, action and enthusiasm in this game is unsurpassed. A coach shouldn’t ever have to come into this game the first time without having been in it as a player or an assistant coach. I’m very proud of the way we played.”

Oklahoma Coach Gary Gibbs, 0-4 against Texas, was treated rudely by a few Oklahoma fans after the game. They poured soft drinks, ice and beer on him as he entered the tunnel to leave the field.

“The people who sit in the end zone and yell at me and throw beer on me, I have no respect for those idiots,” Gibbs said. “The people who hired me know the circumstances. . . . We’re not going to duplicate the heydays of the 1980s. We’ve got 71 or 72 players. . . . It might go down to 60 after today.”

Gardere said it was “ridiculous” the way some Oklahoma fans treated Gibbs. “You can’t treat somebody like that just because you go 0-4 against a single team,” he said.

Gardere completed 18 of 32 passes for 274 yards and Phil Brown scored on touchdown runs of 13 and three yards.

Gardere threw two touchdown passes during the first half as the 11-point underdog Longhorns took a 17-10 lead before a sellout crowd of 75,587 at the Cotton Bowl.

Cale Gundy, who completed 17 of 38 passes for 276 yards but had three interceptions, threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to P.J. Mills on Oklahoma’s first possession.

But Texas came back with a 91-yard scoring drive, as Gardere threw for 34 yards to Darrick Duke before he connected with Justin McLemore on a 25-yard touchdown pass play.

Texas put the game away with 17 points during the second half as Gardere switched gears and went to his running game. Brown’s 13-yard run was the first time Texas had scored on the ground against Oklahoma since 1983.

Gardere’s 18-yard pass to Brown set up the Longhorns for Brown’s second touchdown run with 14:27 to play.

Gundy found his touch again late in the fourth quarter with a 17-yard touchdown pass to Corey Warren, who had a school record 187 yards receiving on nine catches.

Reserve quarterback Steve Collins also had a 25-yard scoring pass to Earnest Williams for Oklahoma late in the game.

Texas leads the series, 51-32-4.