Four the fourth time in four years, Tom Herman has dropped a game to Lincoln Riley and the Oklahoma Sooners. Doing it in a more stressful way than usual, it took four overtimes for the Longhorns to lose in Dallas.
Now, Texas will be two games behind in the Big 12 championship race while Oklahoma also had the tiebreaker. Herman’s goal since Day One has been to win the school’s first conference championship since 2009. He will now have an extreme uphill battle to do so.
The Sooners dominated most of the game until giving up 14 points with five minutes left. From there it was the Sam Ehlinger show, at least getting Texas into a position to win the game.
It will be another year of Oklahoma wearing the Golden Hat, despite fielding one of its worst teams of the century. The Longhorns will have serious soul searching to do before getting back onto the field against Baylor in two weeks.
Here are three takeaways from Texas’ Red River Shootout loss to Oklahoma: