consistency and efficiency put points on the board (and more 90+ yards drives). Only 3 dumb mistakes, one penalty, one fumble and one interception (and 4 dropped passes). It would not have been close if they would not have given the ball up twice.

Okie state scored less than Missouri or Oklahoma, say what you want about the Horn’s defense they gave up 35 to OU, 31 to Missouri and 24 to OK st. that’s progress against 3 top ten teams, all three are way above average offensive teams.

Besides the win, the silver lining of the game being so close is that being tested like we were gives us some specifics (run defense, tackling, offensive line blocking, etc.) to work on and should motivate the team all that much more to prepare for Tech. My hat is off to the boys for making it this far in the schedule undefeated. Its nice for once not having to plot out what other Southern Division teams need to lose so we can go to the Big 12 championship.

first off, it was brutally hot. I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it on the air, but it felt like we in the 90’s. Our d line and LBs were manhandled and Chykie would have been helpful. Glad we won – OSU will kick the crap out of OU.

we are still merely playing for our DIVISION at this point. If we trip up in Lubbock: just one loss; we go from driving for the MNC back to hoping for help just to win the Big 12 South. I certainly don’t want to waste another victory against OU a la 2006.

With that in mind, beating Tech next week is going to be a tall order. Not only is this their validation game, this season might be their last shot at joining the “big boys.” They are going to come out swinging and we will have to dig in and fight with everything we’ve got.

was pretty into it, but it was hot and there just werent enough consecutive awesome plays on D to get the crowd jacked up.

Sergio Kindle was non-factor (1 tackle). OSU did an outstanding job of neutralizing his aggressiveness and athleticism. I’m not calling out Kindle by any means, but it never seemed as though he was able to make those game changing plays we have been accustomed to seeing. Plus as PB noted the outside run support was not there, and I would have to watch the game again to see if he was the culprit.

It was an above average game as far as noise. I think the 4th down at the end of the game was the loudest I’ve ever heard the crowd. However, overall it was not as loud as Missouri game for sure, specially on 1st and second downs.

tied at 3 3 middle of 2nd quarter.

So how are the SEC fanboys going to spin the LSU-Georgia game?

I agree about that last 4th down, was the loudest I’ve heard.

… but Curtis Brown also deserves praise. Dez Bryant is a pretty tough assignment for your first collegiate start, and Brown (and Deon Beasley when Bryant was on his side) did a very nice job. One of my favorite plays from the game was early on when Brown was manned up on Bryant with no help and jumped about 12 feet in the air to break up a jump ball. He’s gonna be a good one.

Great, great football game by both teams.

All, I am a noob to BON. But I have been reading for a few years. I am a season ticket holder, and my seats are on the west end of the stadium in the far left hand corner of the endzone. These are great seats!

Anyway, I want to respond to PB about the crowd. For me the crowd was very loud today, but I did not go to the Mizzou game. Agree that it seemed that UT was just holding on today and looked tired. But, here are a few things I want everyone to think about:

1. Texas has played Three very good undefeated teams in the last three weeks! And to everyone’s suprise, won all three games! Even the Jeff Ward said before OU, that if they (UT) treat the four games as a four game playoff and win 3 of the 4 it would be phenominal. And, just look we have beaten the first 3! Something everyone 3 weeks ago did not in the slightest bit think Texas could do! The goal is to win! And we all need to remember that style points really don’t matter!

2. I don’t know about you, but the tech game scares the hell out of me! But, I agree Graham Harallel is more than a douche! Teaxas needs to keep this in mind during the game and get after him! If I remember right he was as much of a douche during last year’s game here in Austin!

3. Getting back to PBs question… Yes the crowd seemed out of the game today! especially in the first half! But, the reason I believe thsi is true is something few if not anybody has talked about on BON. Starting this year, the powers that be at UT moved the Longhorn Band out of the student section and put them in the Southern Endzone. Being a former band member in high school, I beleive that a lot of people overlook how much a marching band supports their team. Also, I am a native Austinite, 4th generation on both sides of my family and having never left Austin I have been to many many games, especially when I was a kid in the 80s. Sorry about the ramble here, but the bottom line is moving the band is a Big mistake, especially in tight games like this one today. The Longhorn band used to serve as the heartbeat of the games and would help to pace the crowd! PB, the crowd is loud but not coordinated! Even Texas Fight was off today, yes it was very strong in the fourth quarter and had an effect!

Which leads me to this! There were times today, and I have observed this in other games this year, where The crowd as a whole was not behind the team! Today’s game was the first this year that I have witnessed most of the crowd staying until the end of the game, sure this was only because the game was decided in the last thirty seconds! Somone on another BON thread today wished that DKR was as loud as the horseshoe, it is… It is just that now with all of the high tech at DKR, godzillatron, etc. People seem to not pay attention to the momentum of the game! Thus, in a game such as this where momentum is critical the team does not get the absolute whole hearted support from the fans!

How do we fix this?

1. Start a petition through the student organizations to get UT to put the band back in the north endzone!

2. We all need to realize at this point that 2005 is over! Sure 2005 was awesome, if you told me when I was a kid that Texs would again be National Champions in my life time I would, have said that would be great but, David McWilliams! Give me a break! Anyway this 2008 team that we have is just that a team! I love VY, but he was a freak! ANd you all have to agree that 2005 would not of happened without him. This 2008 team is much different, they play as a team and win or God forbid lose as a team! So, quit you complaining, and support your team! They need it! And if we do not do a better job of supporting them they will falter, and we will not be able to see this team play for it all this year!

3. We are currently #1, and we’re Texas folks! (Get your horns up! Dammit!) We have a target on our backs for every game every year, doesn’t matter whether we are #1, #25 or unranked. Teams are going to come after us with everything they have!

Overall, this year we have surpised many, Shock the Nation Season Anyone?!?! Given this run of 3 wins out of 3 that many thought we could lose all three! I believe that we are looking really good right now!

Rant over! For those of you that read this, thanks! I look forward to discussing UT football with you all in the future

P.S. BTW, we had 3 students from Stillwater that sat in front of us today! ANd yes they were excited for their team, and supported there team! Honestly if were not a UT fan I am not sure I could come to DKR, with 100,000 Longhorn fans even not at our best that is just plain intimidating! Anyway these kids were great! In fact one shook my hand at the end of the game, and said good game, you have a good team! ALso, I think it was awesome that we as a crowd, chanted beat OU! To the pokes at the end of the game, the crowd is about 90% right now! Loud, good to the other team, but not completely coordinated!

Hookem! it’s 10:29 and OU still sucks! OSU on the other hand is a much better team!

but I had to go jog after the game to bring my heart rate DOWN. Kinda wish this had been Tennessee and Cal on Thursday night so I could watch and enjoy. Very hard to enjoy this one.

Oklahoma State was really good. Told my brother they played a near-perfect game, other than just having no answers for the short passing game and not being able to stop four long UT drives. Texas didn’t play badly at all; this was not the DOWN game a lot of us feared. Cowboys were just that good. As PB points out, OSU won the LOS; that usually determines the winner.

Scary stat: McCoy completes 84% IN A HOME GAME and Horns are still fortunate win. Parting thoughts: I’ll take 8-0. And OU still sucks.

D’Marco Farr just predicted us to beat Tech.

On Gameday after the Penn State/Ohio game The penn fans were chanting WE WANT TEXAS over and over. Lets keep our heads straight, I have enough faith that Texas will be prepared of Lubbock.

Big play by the Arizona D. I say go play action and go for the TD on the first play

for sure. make no mistake this was a quality team we beat today.

The two turnovers were costly but we survived them.Quan and Shipley were money.Who can fault Colt fighting for the extra yardage when he got stripped for the fumble.

We overcame a lot and emerger victorious.

After watching Tech and Kansas today I feel that we have more horses than they do and we will wear them down and pull out a W in a barnbuner.

This team, and especially Colt just refuses to lose and i for one am enjoying the ride.

of game this morning.

We scored 2 touchdowns in the 2nd quarter. Both were executed flawlessly.

The McGee zone read off left tackle had perfect blocks and was a great great north-south play. Our run blocking worked when we needed it most.

The 2nd TD, and arguably the greatest TD play since Williams grab against MO, was a spectacular individual effort. Quan literally turned his back on the football dead into the sun and catches the ball on a full-reach, falling backward, feet over head, very memorable reception.

This will be one of the plays I will remember for a very long time because it epitomized why Colt is so dang good. He has 2 of the all-time great UT receivers who just do not drop passes.

I needed a reminder of the raw power that is Tom Selleck. It is similar (yet more perfect) to the power in that Pokes squad (his chest hair would’ve thrown one more touchdown to beat us).

Good post-game review PB. I agree 110% with this being the best team the ‘Horns have faced all season. And did anyone notice how friggin’ HUGE that team is?! Brandon Pettigrew was grown in a lab. Their collective wang must be over a mile. Anyway, they were an awesome team.

 Concerns that must be addressed

1. Kickoff returns – reminds me of the Michigan Rose bowl where they kept running back kickoffs to the 50 every time. Saw same issue against Missouri and exposed yesterday by OSU. Texas would have a great drive and build momentum and special teams play on the kickoff gave it away. Tech has a great return team and could change the game – we cannot give the ball to Tech constantly near midfield.

2. Tackling. I know Will was upset with this yesterday, especially the amount of arm tackling and Texas tackles where we "assumed" the OSU player would go down and not follow through. Do this to Crabtree and he will kill you.

3. Running game. We kept trying to go with a sweep run that really never worked. Most disappointing was inability to push ball into end zone at end of game with first down near the one. We must be able to run ball on Tech (like last year) and have long drives resulting in touchdowns that eat the clock and keep Tech offense off the field.

Finally, I was at both the Missouri and OSU games and the crowd noise was very different. Also, the OSU band OWNED our band – they played after almost every play and I think our band plays after each quarter or only a big play.

won’t be an issue. My concern for Texas is the physical toll the last three games have taken.

Not to knock Tech at all, but playing Kansas, Aggies and K-State (plus Nebraska) is not the same as playing NoU, Mizzou and Okie Heavy. I fear Quan and Ship are just physically beaten up and beaten down. McCoy took a pounding yesterday. No alibi intended.

You go where the schedule says go, play ‘em in that order. I’m sure OSU fans and coaches believe they’d be unbeaten and No. 2 or 3 in the country if the Texas game had been in Stillwater.

there’s been a bit of nitpicking about the running game, run defense, and tackling but over all it took nothing short of a great gameplan and effort to be OSU. It will be a shame if OSU doesn’t get into a good bowl game this year because if they continue to play like they played against us they deserve it.

I thought the Horns did exactly what they needed to do on offense yesterday. They controlled the clock with a ball control passing game. Who cares if the running game didn’t work? It was sufficient enough to help keep the offense going. Frankly, we won’t be able to drop 50 on everyone and OSU came ready to play. They wanted to stop the run and force us to play the % game, hoping to seize on turnovers to pull the upset. The horns took what was given to them and couldn’t be stopped in the short passing game. Save for the McCoy fumble and the busted play on the goal line and the ‘Horns win that game by 18 points instead of 4. Some times the execution isn’t as crisp as it needs to be, but the offense did its job while leaving some room for improvement. We’re really splitting hairs at this point to criticize them — three 80+ yard scoring drives is huge.

Defensively, the ‘Horns took OSU’s best shot. The game plan was simple, take away Dez Bryant and make OSU earn every yard without a big play. Amazingly we handled Bryant without our best cover corner on the field. Pettigrew was huge but there’s a reason for it — he’s all big 12, mind you.

The biggest issues I saw were the relative ease OSU had taking Bobino/Norton out of the play by having Muckelroy focus on Pettigrew in coverage. It seemed like on ever run, one of the linemen dropped their block assignment and took Bobino out of the play. Let’s make no mistake though, we’ve always known Bobino’s shortcomings so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Just because we’ve allowed 50 yards/game on the ground doesn’t mean we’re run stoppers — particularly when our opposition to this point was pass heavy. Going into this year I felt like our d-line would be susceptible to a power running game and fortunately for us we don’t face many of those in the Big 12.

Looking forward to Tech…OSU exposed some of our weaknesses but I’m not sure Tech has the personnel to exploit them. Pettigrew was a mismatch all over the field, but Tech doesn’t posses a TE anywhere in his realm. Furthermore, after facing Iglesias & Manny Johnson, Jeremy Maclin, and now Dez Bryant we know we can execute a game plan to try to contain a guy like Crabtree. There is nothing that Tech has shown on defense that leads me to believe they will be more successful than OSU or OU at slowing down our offense. Tech will need a special effort in every phase of the game to win.

The Cowboys executed very well both on offense and defense. Any struggles either team had can largely be blamed on the other.

I thought the crowd was good. Most people stood the entire game, even in sections with a lot of older people. I’ve been going to home games for the last 8 years, and this is definitely the most consistently involved crowd I can remember. It was loud too.

and both the UT staff and players commented publicly how impressed they were with the participation and compared it equally to the Missouri game. Enough said.