Also, Bruin106. If the team you follow gets beat 35-0 at home, then you don’t go around asking for respect. You take whatever respect anyone gives you and thank them for their time. Next season you can start asking for respect again. You especially don’t ask the fans of a team that just won a bowl game over the exact team that handed out that 35-0 loss. (Admittedly, Luck didn’t play, but Oklahoma dominated that game statistically and Stanford had to get several breaks to make it a 4 point game.) Did UCLA start pumping up Oklahoma as soon as this year’s Stanford game was over? Besides, there’s not a lot to suggest that Texas was ever much more than a pretty good team. Last year they had a 3 point win over what was effectively a JV team from Oklahoma, and they beat a decent, but not great Nebraska team by 1. The one and only win Texas has had over the last 3 seasons that could really be termed impressive was the 10 point win over Oklahoma in 2008. Texas’ bowl win over Ohio State left anyone who was paying attention more sure than ever that the better team, if not the right team, had won the BigXII tie breaker. Outside of the 2008 Oklahoma game, exactly what has Texas done as a team to command respect. Their defense could be perfectly engineered to ruin Oklahoma’s Saturday, but their offense was a one trick pony under Colt McCoy, and now it’s a no trick pony.

I did watch the game. I saw the UT defense confused and out of position. The one QB run , where he went 35 yds untouched, was a very well designed option play. The QB was not a great runner or passer, the scheme made it work.

UT will be very familiar with OU’s offense. This is going to be athlete on athlete.

Also UCLA only scored 10 points off of turnovers. Again, watch the game.