Texas stuns Oklahoma 24-17 in Red River Showdown

And at the end of the day, I think that’s where he wanted to play ball.

Strong didn’t run from it. He ran into it instead, about eight hours before kickoff. Lincoln Riley didn’t try to run much and didn’t have an answer for the Longhorns’ constant blitzes. Jim McElwain for national coach of the year?

DALLAS, TX – OCTOBER 10: Marcus Johnson #7 of the Texas Longhorns celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the Oklahoma Sooners in the first quarter during the AT&T Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl on October 10, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. “In the unfortunate event the Sooners pull off a win, Governor Fallin and the charity of her choice will receive a few of the finest barbecue Texas has to offer – a prize valued far more than any trophy”. And now, with this win, the Strong On Hot Seat talk should be dead and buried. Fortunately, the loss came to Texas and not to TCU or Baylor. Players tweeting at halftime. Strong said to run it again. “You get exhausted of hearing what everybody’s saying about you”. “Do it for yourselves”. The Sooners held on for the 20 point win. Worth, Texas by arguably the best team in college football just a week ago.

He’s watched Mayfield play both football and baseball with a chip on his shoulder for years.

That’s exactly what Texas did. The lineman rose to the challenge and Texas rushed for 313 yards. The Horned Frogs had a 220-1 total yardage advantage late in the first quarter and led 30-0 after 15 minutes. He will carve up the Longhorns defense and lead the Sooners to a big win here. And while Howard certainly isn’t running around in cement shoes back there, his athleticism doesn’t even begin to compare with that of Heard.

Texas responded when D’Onta Foreman broke free of a tackle at the line and raced 81 yards on the last play of the third quarter.

The Texas defensive line also emerged in a big way for the first time this season.

Many are expecting a lopsided game, but there is no rivalry quite like the Texas-Oklahoma series.

But the Longhorns went with the exciting potential of Heard and still found a way to keep Swoopes involved in the offense. Foreman is quickly establishing himself as the feature back in this offense.

“Well they overloaded us because we kept running the counter”, Strong said.

“They kicked us and won the game”, Stoops told reporters.

The games are rarely well-played.

Bedford said the coaching staff is not concerned right now. This is the University of Texas.

That didn’t stop Strong from enjoying this one. Don’t need to blame anybody else. And for him to get his start today, his first start, I know it felt good to him.

The booms signaled the end of a lot of doubt about the man wearing the Golden Hat. “I would say we lost leverage on a couple of the early touchdowns, and then the missed tackles”.

Discarded as the starter after a listless effort at Notre Dame, Swoopes refuses to go away silently, and his touchdown celebrations on Saturday seemed to electrify a sideline that was already determined to disprove critics who had spent the previous week burying them.

While the Horns are having a down year, which happens, this marks just the third time during that span that Texas enters its game against the Sooners unranked by the AP (each the last three seasons). Heard will have to develop as a passer. The Longhorns capitalized on a 3 yard Tyrone Swoopes touchdown run giving UT a 14-0 lead.

It was the toughest, most determined moment of the season, maybe even of the entire Strong era.

“Players play. Coaches coach”.