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Last week's losses have taken some of the edge off of OU-Texas

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: October 6, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

DALLAS — They meet in the parties and pubs the night before the game. Meet in the I-30 traffic jam above Fair Park. Meet on the Midway and meet in the livestock barns and meet in line to buy coupons that will provide the bounty of beer and turkey legs and corny dogs.

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And they meet on the 37th parallel of college football, the Cotton Bowl's 50-yard line seats, where a thin strip of concrete separates crimson from burnt orange, where barbs are tossed and smack is talked as Sooners and Longhorns prizefight below.

But this October, even the fans who turn fanatic when they enter the Texas state fairgrounds are talking a little softer. Talking a little gentler. Talking a little more to themselves.

Texas' crime wave in Austin, Ryan Broyles' hand in the gas can? No longer prime topics of conversation.

Mack Brown's two-game win streak on Bob Stoops, the OU fan who tore the Texas fan's scrotum? No longer on tongue tips.

Too much self-analysis needed to waste time on the other guy.

Texas, in a word, stinks. What else can be the verdict about a program that has laid seven duds in its last eight games, dating back to last November? Nary a powerhouse on the schedule those last eight games, yet UT is 5-3 with a couple of close-call victories.

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