Oklahoma State Football: Cowboys expose Texas in Stillwater

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1. Texas got exposed

Despite Oklahoma State’s recent struggles, it should not have come as a surprise to anyone to see Texas go down in Stillwater on Saturday night. The Longhorns were ranked 6th in the AP Poll, far above where advanced metrics thought that they should be; they had heavily outplayed their projection to this point in the season.

S&P+ had Texas ranked 38th coming into this game. Sagarin was a little more kind, but still had the ‘Horns 11 spots below their ranking in the human polls at 17.

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The truth is that the win over Oklahoma masked the struggles Texas had in their other games. This is still the same team that dropped their home opener to Maryland; it’s still the same team that had trouble putting away Big 12 bottom feeders Kansas State and Baylor.

It’s obvious that Tom Herman has the Longhorns improving in his second season on the sideline in Austin, but Texas is still a year or two away from being all the way back in the sense that Texas fans want them to be.

They’re a good team, but they were never going to seriously contend for a playoff berth. If they make it to the Big 12 Championship game in a Red River rematch against Oklahoma, it seems likely that the Sooners would get the best of the Longhorns in the second go-round.

I think it’s even more likely that Texas drops another game or two down the stretch run of the season with home games remaining against West Virginia and Iowa State, and a road trek to Lubbock still on the docket.

The Oklahoma State student section peppered the Stillwater night air with chants of “overrated” in the waning seconds of the ‘Pokes win over the Longhorns. They weren’t wrong.

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