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Leftover Notes and Thoughts From the Oklahoma State-Texas Game

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My 10 Thoughts on the Oklahoma State-Texas game was nearly 2,500 words long on Saturday, and I felt like it could have been 2,500 more. Here are some thoughts and leftover things from my trip to Austin over the weekend.

• Texas students hit 6th Street hard on Friday night, it appears.

• The Texas band did their pregame thing with flags from every Big 12 team — they used the old OSU brand, which was incredible. Also, Texas should have one of the better entrances in the country, but nobody was excited or there for the 11 a.m. kick. Sad.

• Plz stop, Baylor.

• In the first quarter I wrote, “Texas trying to go sideline to sideline early.” Little did I know that was one half of their entire offensive strategy.

• Had to be the most claps from the QB position in a single game of American football, maybe ever.

• Can you just do whatever you want on punt returns as the team that’s punting? Like, I feel like defenders could run downfield with automatic weapons and point them at punt returners and the refs wouldn’t necessarily throw a flag.

• Ramon running down John Burt from behind was incredible to watch in person. I didn’t think there was any way he would catch him.

• The first quarter is what it would look like if Texas and OSU were in the SEC.

• I love the RPO to Washington over the middle. It’s so good. It feels unstoppable. I know it is stoppable (clearly), but it feels like OSU could run it over and over and over again to their heart’s content.

• Best pregame tweet goes to …

• That 96-yard drive for Oklahoma State in the first quarter tied its longest of the season. Also did it against Pittsburgh. It was beautiful, too. Here are the deets:

  • Washington for 9
  • Washington for 14
  • McCleskey for 4
  • Incomplete to Lacy
  • Tyron for 7
  • McCleskey for 29
  • Justice for 3
  • Lacy for 20
  • J.D. for 3
  • J.D. for 7

Put it in my veins!

• What were the odds on Calvin Bundage not hitting Ehlinger at sideline in Q1 as he danced out of bounds. Vegas had it at 1,000-1.

• Oklahoma State tied its longest punt return of the season on Saturday. How does that make you feel?

• The Texas cannon scarier than Pete’s gun. And it’s not even that close.

• Justice Hill’s five biggest loads to date:

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• Saturday was the first time OSU has punted twice in a row all year. And they did it four times.

• Did we ever see definitively see that Burt was out on the sideline, by the way? Like definitively definitively? Also, how funny was Gundy’s response to why he didn’t challenge?

“Now, the reason we didn’t call timeout and try to review it, he’s wearing white shoes, it’s white line, it was close, whether his foot was like this or that, you couldn’t tell, so inconclusive, they’re going to say it’s okay and let it go, and quite honestly, the kid made a really good play. It probably should stand anyway.”

• Speaking of that play, my buddy Jay Young pointed out that Tatum Bell once tiptoed those same sidelines in 2002.

• Y’all would have carried Glenn Spencer out of Stillwater over your heads if he’d have given up that 3rd and 44 to Texas’ offense. I was rooting for it just for the absurdity.

• This exchange was amazing.

• Texas’ go-to-all-chips-on-the-table on offense was Ehlinger running the veer and trying to gain 3 yards. Texas!

• Texas punter was unreal. This game was him creating a virus and unleashing it on Sinor’s website. And he succeeded.

• eyes emoji.

• Took them until the final drive of the first half, but OSU started making Justice the safety valve in the passing game. Then they stopped in the second half. He had acres of space to dance over the middle, and they just didn’t go to it again.

• We have done it, you guys. The Texas is back jokes have been murdered.

• Real note from me: Game plan at the end of the first half was kinda embarrassing. I stand by that. I even wrote about it.

• Rudolph running across the field for a new set of downs after Texas got an illegal substitution penalty on a punt was amazing. Also, Texas, what are you doing?

• The McCleskey route and the Mason throw on the dropped pass were both unbelievable. He catches that 999 times out of 1,000. Justin Southwell’s analysis: Receivers forgot how to catch after so many run plays. Sad.

• Right after the drop I saw Gundy come out on the field and high-five McCleskey as he was coming off. I thought that was pretty cool.

• What a shot.

• OSU’s goal line calls were bad. First of all, Justice shouldn’t running the Wildcat. J.D. should be. Second, this is what Texas does best! Throw three balls to Ateman or Washington, and see what happens.

• Yup.

• I think OSU got a couple of good calls from referees because of its receivers’ reputations. Not saying I didn’t enjoy it or that it shouldn’t happen. Stars get calls — always have, always will.

• Having J.D. at the end of games has to be terrifying for opponents. He is such a monster for a true freshman. Oklahoma State might run the ball 900 times next season!

• Ehlinger missed somebody deep in the middle of the 4th — it probably would have been a game-winner.

• Not good.

• If you would have told me before the game that there would be 20 points scored in regulation, I’m not even sure what I would have thought. A 20-0 shutout for OSU? Mason goes down? Like, I really don’t know what my thought process would have been.

• Texas had 8 penalties for 73 yards, and most of them were terrible.

• Speaking of penalties, I was standing right by A.J. Green in overtime when he interfered with Texas. I thought it was pretty soft on the field. Like, really soft. Also, I couldn’t tell on the Ateman catch/no catch from earlier in OT, but I went back and watched it and it didn’t look like a catch to me.

• It really did, didn’t it?

• Sounds like I really missed out on Brian Griese.

• I laughed.

• Rodarius Wiliams might be a dude, you guys. Him and Green were fantastic throughout.

• We went down on the field with five minutes left in the 4th to watch the rest of the game. It was steamy, and it became clear once we got down there that this game was going to OT.

• The coin toss was bizarre. I’m still not sure what happened. The referee signaled that Texas took the ball going towards the south end zone. Then it turned out that OSU got it going towards the north end zone.

• I would have bet some decent coin that Ammendola missed the FG in OT (and he almost did).

• I’m sure most of you have seen the photo, but here’s the GIF of me hitting Carson as Ramon intercepted the pass.

• The scene afterwards was bonkers. I had to run to the other side of the field to video the alma mater, and I ran past Mike Holder who, for some reason, was strolling the Texas sideline after the game ended.

• Gundy was the last OSU person to leave the field — he came to the OSU section and gave them some fist pumps before high-fiving every player as he left the field. All with his shirt mostly untucked and the mullet waving in the wind.

• My favorite part of the Gundy presser was how much it was making Berry Tramel laugh. I started laughing, not at Gundy, but at how hard Tramel was laughing at Gundy. It was awesome.

• Lastly, I loved this tweet.

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