aka TX-OU or occasionally the Red River Shootout.
Here we are, another year. Horns are slowly improving from the absolute crap of the Charlie Strong era, while OU appears to replace its coaches as easily as it replaces its Heisman-winning QBs. Last year Texas won at the Cotton Bowl, OU won at Jerryworld, so I guess the "revenge" factor is in favor of the Longhorns, not that it really makes much difference.
I really don't see Texas winning this game. The secondary is just too thin, too many starters out, but even if we had every single starter for this game, the Texas defense is consistently ranked in the 100s for pass defense and that's not any different this year. They give up too many big plays and OU is a team specifically designed to take advantage of those mistakes.
I think the Texas offense is going to move the ball and score points. Tom Herman won't "turtle" for this game so I expect him to throw a lot of wild stuff out there. I'm hopeful Collin Johnson is back and reasonable healthy because Duvernay can't continue to do it all by himself. Our running back situation is pretty dire as well, but RoJo has been serviceable so far this year, hopefully he can keep that up.
Realistically, I think Texas probably needs to score on every offensive possession to win, and I don't see that happening. But here's hoping!
OK. Cool. Hook 'em!
