Norman, Okla. ? Malcolm Kelly has a point to make.

It wasn’t on a whim that he crossed the state line to play at Oklahoma, spurning the Longhorns and choosing not to follow his brother to the campus he’d grown familiar with over years of visits.

“The main reason why I came to Oklahoma was because Texas hadn’t beaten Oklahoma in the last five years, and I get up here and we haven’t beaten them in two years,” Kelly said. “That’s going to be a big deal for me going in. The main reason why I crossed the Red River was because Oklahoma beat Texas and they usually made it to the Big 12 championship game.”

Kelly has an extra reason to be fired up for this week’s game against the No. 19 Longhorns (4-1, 0-1).

Streak ended

For the first time since he emerged as Oklahoma’s top receiver midway through his freshman season in 2005, Kelly played a full game without a reception in the 27-24 loss at Colorado last week that dropped the Sooners to No. 10.

The only other game in which he didn’t have a catch was Oklahoma’s 43-42 loss to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl this January, when a knee injury knocked him out of the game early.

“I’ve kind of got a chip on my shoulder. I didn’t play as well as I wanted to Saturday,” said Kelly, who had two catches for 31 yards in last year’s Red River Rivalry.

Kelly isn’t entirely to blame for his zero-catch performance. Quarterback Sam Bradford didn’t throw in his direction the whole game, and then ran out of chances after three second-half turnovers limited the Sooners to 19 offensive plays after halftime.

“That’s what no one wants to talk about. That’s part of it,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday.

“Part of it was he’s double-covered a fair amount of time. … Other times Sam had the option, could have went to him and chose somebody else. That happened a few times as well. So it’s a little bit of all of that, and the few snaps we had.”