The 1997 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1997, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, USA.
 The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The bowl game featured the Kansas State Wildcats from the Big 12 and the BYU Cougars from the Western Athletic Conference.
 The game was televised on CBS.
The 2011 TicketCity Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 The game was played on January 1, 2011, at 12:00 p.m. ET and was telecast on ESPNU.
 This game replaced the Cotton Bowl Classic, which moved from its long-time home to Cowboys Stadium in nearby Arlington in 2010, and pitted the Northwestern Wildcats from the Big Ten Conference against the Texas Tech Red Raiders from the Big 12 Conference.
 The game was originally labeled "The Dallas Football Classic," but on November 8, 2010, a deal was announced for TicketCity to become the title sponsor of the bowl.
The 1988 Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1988, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 The bowl game featured the Notre Dame Fighting Irish versus the Texas A&M Aggies.
 Played in front of 73,006 people, Texas A&M won the game by a final score of 35-10.
 This was the final Cotton Bowl played without a sponsor for the game.
The Heart of Dallas Classic was a planned annual college football game played on the opening weekend of the State Fair of Texas at the historic Cotton Bowl in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas.
 However, the game was not renewed beyond its initial (and only) contest.
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.
The 1996 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1996, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 This was the 60th held game.
 The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The bowl game featured the Colorado Buffaloes from the Big Eight and the Oregon Ducks from the Pacific-10 Conference.
 The game was televised on CBS.
The Red River State Fair Classic (formerly the State Fair Classic and, more recently, the Shreveport Classic) is an American college football game played annually in Shreveport, Louisiana, at Independence Stadium (formerly State Fair Stadium) during the State Fair of Louisiana.
 It traces its historical lineage from a series of 160 games played over the 106 football seasons between 1911 and 2016.
 By having first paired historically black colleges and universities in 1922, the contest holds the distinction of being the oldest annual black college football classic, edging out the Turkey Day Classic by two years and the similar Texas State Fair Classic by three years.
 Also, so far, the earliest documented use of the term "classic" as part of an annual black college football game's formal name has been dated to the 1927 Louisiana State Fair Classic.
The 2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2008, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, USA.
 The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and one of 32 games in the 2007–2008 bowl season.
 The bowl game featured the Arkansas Razorbacks from the SEC and the Missouri Tigers from the Big 12 and was televised in the United States on FOX.
 Senior RB Tony Temple of Mizzou set a single game rushing record for the Cotton Bowl Classic with 281 yards and 4 touchdowns.
 His 281 rushing yards put him in second place all time for total rushing yards in a bowl game.
The 1998 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1998, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The bowl game featured the UCLA Bruins from the Pac-10 and the Texas A&M Aggies from the Big 12.
 The game was televised on CBS.
The State Fair Classic (known as the Southwest Airlines State Fair Classic for sponsorship purposes) 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 is played on a neutral site at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas during the State Fair of Texas.
 The game often occurs the weekend before the Oklahoma–Texas Red River Showdown game; the new Texas State Fair Football Showdown is also scheduled to take place on the third weekends of the 2018 and 2019 fairs and will feature Southern and Texas Southern.

Question: The State Fair Classic often occurs the weekend before which game played annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas?
Answer: The Red River Showdown