Where to start with the final Big 12 edition of the Texas-Oklahoma game? One play speaks for the 34-30 Sooners win. In the fourth quarter, the Longhorns were down by seven. It was fourth-and-goal at the Sooners’ 2-yard line. Here was the Longhorns’ chance to banish the “Texas is back” comedy that keeps America in stitches.
Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers threw a quick pass to receiver Xavier Worthy. Worthy stretched toward the end zone, but the refs marked him just short. The reporters in the Cotton Bowl’s press box waited for an ABC replay to appear. Then, we saw the telling image: Worthy was seated on the wrong side of the goal line. “Naw,” someone said. “His ass was down.”
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