I think that that game illustrated the maxim that the longer you let the other team--that you should be beating--hang around, the stronger that team gets.
Texas has better athletes, but OSU was the better team. If you could eliminate turnovers and bad special-teams play, that is. But the Pokes didn't put the Horns away, and, as Utee said, it came down to talent making plays at the end.
I was rooting for Texas because I want OU to be in the CCG, and that means that somebody in addition to us needed to beat OSU. Also, as a general rule, if I could know that OU would be in the CCG and I got to pick the opponent, I would pick Texas. Either because, as in 2018, we could get revenge for a loss in the RRS, or because--college football-wise--not much could be better than an opportunity to beat Texas twice in one year.
So, if OU and UT both run the table the rest of the way, all it will take is for the winner of the K-State-Iowa State game to take one more loss for the Sooners and Horns to meet for the conference championship.
