After The Game
Texas later beat #11 Missouri 56-31 and #6 Oklahoma State 28-24. The following week #1 Texas lost to #6 Texas Tech 39-33. They finished their season with wins over Kansas, Baylor, Texas A&M and Ohio State in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl. Oklahoma would go undefeated in Big 12 play after the game, scoring several major wins and setting an NCAA record (5) for most consecutive games scoring 60 or more points, including a 65-21 blowout of Texas Tech that created a 3-way Big 12 South tie. In the end, due to Big 12 Conference rules stating that if there is a three-way tie for division champion, the team with the highest BCS ranking plays for the Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma played Missouri in the Big 12 Championship game and won. They then faced the Tim Tebow led Florida Gators in the 2008 National Championship game, where they lost, 24-14.
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“My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say “I do not play bridge” is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn’t “at all a good player, in fact I’m perfectly rotten,” is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.”
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