The Longhorns gave up thirty-one unanswered points to Cal, then rallied back to get to within one. It looked like the two teams would battle it out in overtime but Nick Rose’s extra point went wide right after being tipped.
It’s a deflating way to lose a game, to say the least. Rose felt terrible about the missed kick. That makes two Longhorns that know the feeling quite well within the last three days.
Jamaal Charles had the chance to run down the clock for the Kansas City Chiefs to take the game against Denver to overtime. He literally fumbled the opportunity away. Nick Rose has been inconsistent at times but this was an extra point. He practices it every day. He kicked multiple ones in this game.
Sometimes you miss.
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.â€~ Harry S. Truman.
Trying to heed President Truman’s words are tough. Can these Texas players bounce back? Can this team show the resilience it requires to turn difficulties into opportunities?
I think they can.
Khalfani Muhammed’s long touchdown run that put Cal up 45-24 should have been the final nail in the proverbial coffin. Let’s be honest, it didn’t look good for Texas at that point. But the Longhorns didn’t give up. The defense shut down Golden Bears quarterback Jared Goff on critical 3rd downs and the Jerrod Heard and the Texas offense mustered up the necessary plays to win the game. It just didn’t happen.
The Longhorns haven’t responded well to devastating losses in the past. With the Oklahoma State Cowboys looming, Texas needs to show they aren’t pushovers. They want to establish that they are not done as an elite program.
Oklahoma State heads to Austin with the most players from the Lone Star State on any out-of-state team’s roster. Many of those players want to put salt into Texas’s wound. Without looking past the Oklahoma State game, Texas NEEDS to win next weekend because it doesn’t get any easier schedule-wise.
So the question remains, can the Texas Longhorns become the optimist?
Other College Football Thoughts:
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[*]Missouri and UCONN messed around and decided to play a baseball game. For years, Missouri fans clamored for a defense to go along with a great offense. Now, they want an offense to go along with a great defense
[*]Notre Dame is still winning. Ugly in many ways but they are still winning
[*]Arkansas bit the dust. Nice job by Texas Tech, winning in Fayetteville and showing that the Big 12 can play and the SEC is not as strong as the national media believes
[*]Speaking of the SEC, I believed that Auburn should have not been ranked in this week’s poll. LSU proved that they are good, but their win over Auburn should not vault them into the top 10. It probably will
[*]Florida State is the worst top 10 team in the poll. They are not very good and no matter what they were last year, they won’t be there this year. I expect them to be unranked at the end of the season
[*]Roll Tide got ROLLED by the Rebels. It came down to simple variable. Turnovers. Alabama committed more than Ole Miss and Ole Miss made them pay. And the “dedicated fans†of Alabama were leaving early. It was hilarious
[*]Since USC lost, I will say that the darkhorse now for the national title is LSU. Even though I ripped the SEC in the quick analysis of the Auburn-LSU game, I am very impressed with the Tigers. Leonard Fournette is a man-child.
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