The Dallas Cowboys’ new $1 billion stadium promises to be the “Taj Mahal” of football facilities. And such a grand structure could soon become the host of another great gridiron contest - the Oklahoma-Texas game.

John Klein of the TULSA WORLD writes about the possibility of the Red River Shootout Rivalry soon moving out of the Cotton Bowl and into the state-of-the-art stadium in Arlington. And they wouldn’t be the first college teams to be penciled in on the new Stadium’s schedule.

Arkansas and Texas A&M have already signed a 10-year deal to meet in the new digs every October. Oklahoma State & Texas Tech are about to do their own alternate Red River Rivalry by moving their annual Big 12 contest to the new stadium. And Notre Dame has arranged a deal to play there in 2012 against … Arizona State?

(This ND-ASU matchup might make more sense to be played in the Cardinals’ nice, new stadium in Glendale. Weren’t there any local Texas teams willing to face the Irish? Baylor? TCU? SMU? North Texas?)

Heck, even the Cotton Bowl bowl game will be leaving its namesake location to set up shop in Arlington - and maybe become a bigger part of the BCS.

But some traditionalists would scoff at the idea of moving OU-Texas away from the state fairgrounds, ripping it away from the fun & frivolity of the Texas State Fair.

No problem, says Klein:

Yes, you would lose the location at Fair Park. However, it wouldn’t take much to move a few rides, games and your favorite corn dog stand to the convenient parking lots surrounding the new stadium.

As long as they don’t mind paying the $20 parking fee. (The stadium has to recoup its billion-dollar costs somehow.)

Oklahoma & Texas are contracted to play in the Cotton Bowl until 2015. But by then, the appeal of a 60-yard-long hanging scoreboard might be too much for the teams to turn down, and they may crash Jerry Jones’ place a few seasons early.