If watching Michael Crabtree spin away from the hapless Longhorn secondary wasn't torturous enough for UT followers, Oklahoma's beat-down of the Red Raiders on Saturday night should have done the trick.
For some reason, throughout last week I constantly heard Texas fans claim that they were going to put down their "Oklahoma girls are fat" t-shirts and root for the Sooners. Well, the Sooners obliged and absolutely destroyed Texas Tech...65-21. The Red Raiders, the only team to defeat the Longhorns, were authoritatively dismantled by a superior team.
If you are going to go all Nick Saban on us and flip to the other side, at least do it when it matters! Oklahoma winning didn't help Texas in any way...Texas needed a Rocky type of game...where both competitors duked it out until the end and neither looked dominant in doing so.
This was more along the lines of Mike Tyson destroying Peter McNeeley: lots of hype and watching parties ending after about 2 minutes leaving everyone asking, "what the hell just happened?"
So the Longhorn fans got what they wanted: an OU victory. Unfortunately for the Austinites, the resounding victory jettisoned Oklahoma over Texas in both human polls. Texas still holds the 2nd spot within the BCS standings...but only by the slimmest of margins.
And while Texas rolls over a hideous A&M team on Thanksgiving Day, the Stoops Crew will have an opportunity to continue their BCS rise by playing #12 Oklahoma State this Saturday. A victory over another top 25 team, on the road, will almost certainly catapult Oklahoma ahead of the Longhorns in the BCS standings, propelling the Sooners into the Big 12 Championship and, with a win, the National Championship.
And just like the guy who wished that he had the largest brain in the world, UT fans soon realized that they should have been careful what they wished for.
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