The Most Overrated Thing Was …
Texas beat Oklahoma 49-0.
It’s not like there haven’t been ugly games in Red River Showdowns/Rivalries/Shootouts before.
The difference is that this time the blowout was on the other side of the field.
Oklahoma destroyed Texas 63-21 back in 2012, and that was a year after winning 55-17.
Texas got its licks in with a 45-12 win in 2005, but that came two years after OU squeaked by 65-13, which was only slightly more interesting than the 63-14 win in 2000, and … you get the idea.
Of course Oklahoma is going to have to get through an adjustment period after losing head coach Lincoln Riley and a slew of transfers. Of course the program should be better and stronger than 0-3 in the conference – it has been strangely unappreciated just how dominant Oklahoma has been in the Big 12. Of course head coach Brent Venables should get a few years to try getting his parts in place.
But this was so ugly, so boring from the start – Oklahoma didn’t look like it had the ability to do much of anything, especially with QB Dillon Gabriel out – that it made a huge splash across the early part of the college football Saturday.
The reality, though, was that this game didn’t matter nearly as much as Kansas-TCU, but Horns-Sooners got the big network treatment and you had to look to find the battle of unbeaten Big 12 teams in a far more entertaining showdown.
Texas had already lost to Texas Tech. It might end up in the Big 12 Championship, but Oklahoma almost won’t certainly get there even if it runs the table.
Is Texas “back” to whatever lever you want it do be? Nah. Is Oklahoma over now that it lost this big game in this way? Nah. However the two future SEC programs are probably also-rans this year.
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