Big 12 Championship hopes
The Longhorns are currently sitting at No. 4 in the Big 12 standings behind Baylor, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. Texas needs to win out in order to do things the easy way en route to Dallas with a chance to redeem their loss against Oklahoma. However, out of all the teams left on the schedule, Oklahoma State will likely give Texas the biggest troubles.
If Texas loses this game, they will be reliant on other teams losing within the conference and will have little to no control of their own destiny. Making the conference championship game is still very much in play with a win, and will give them an opportunity to battle it out with Baylor next week for the No. 2 spot. While Oklahoma State has a good rushing attack, they cannot get into a shootout with Texas, so the Longhorns truly need to build a lead and actually hold it unlike last week.
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