Had the house to myself today, and decided to spend the afternoon watching the big Red River Shootout, which I expected would be more interesting after Texas got wiped out by UCLA last Saturday. Today, Oklahoma started like a house on fire and had a 14-0 lead in the first quarter before Texas had achieved a single first down. It was 21-7 at halftime, with the longhorns getting their only score on one long TD run (about 60 yards).
Things cooled off in the second half, and OU could never seem to put the game comfortably out of reach. The final score was 28-20, but the sooners were only able to win because the horns insisted on beating themselves with penalties and turnovers. All in all, the game wasn't as one-sided as I had hoped it would be; the longhorns lost, but weren't humiliated and disgraced. One of the announcers said this was the first time Texas has lost back-to-back games since Mack Brown came aboard. Can that be true ? If it is, could it be significant at all ? We'll see.
Added 6:50 pm, Sunday, October 3rd: Apparently the announcer was wrong or I misunderstood him, since the longhorns have lost back-to-back games under The Mack in earlier seasons. But they have dropped out of the AP Top 25 for the first time in ten years. In a perfect world, this would be the beginning of their long, slow decline into the depths of mediocrity.
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