Despite Big 12 apology, the damage has been done to Cowboys

I mean, OSU had an extremely talented and veteran quarterback a year ago, and he once fumbled in the victory formation. If that could happen to Brandon Weeden, anything could've happened Saturday.

It seems like it would be easy enough to say, “Texas fumbled, OSU recovered, outcome switched,” but it's just not that neat and tidy.

Besides, if you start messing with outcomes involving late-game situations, it won't be long before teams start questioning calls made earlier in games. What would keep a team that loses by a point from protesting a call that cost them a touchdown in the first quarter? What would happen then? Go back to the stadium and pick up the game from that point?

I'm not sure, but I'm sure I don't want to find out.

Someday, I fear, this stuff will be overturned. Someday, we'll be deciding winners and losers from replays. Someday, we'll have gone down a road that won't be good.

In my mind, the Cowboys won on Saturday night. They got the stop that they needed on the goal line and beat the Longhorns for the third consecutive year.

Only problem is the scoreboard didn't say so.

Neither should the record books.

Not now.

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