OU football: Sooners' collapse means different role in Texas showdown

The Sooner team is in trouble after a terrible start to the season. The team's coach, Ruf-Neks, and players are traumatized. Texas Christian is coming to Gainesville this week. The coach who inspired such revelry and optimism since Brent Venables was hired 10 months ago, seems deflated. He is not defeated but deflating. It's not a magic bullet. There's nothing that you snap your fingers and throw magic dust out there. This happens through work and going back with the same type of commitment. They have had. Before noon Saturday, sometime around TCU’s third cross-country touchdown, the realization set in.

OU and Texas kick off at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas.