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BATTLE TESTED: Before OU, Austin Kendall won a quarterback competition against his brother

NORMAN — When Brian Kendall hung up the phone for the second time on that Sunday in 2012, he didn't know how to feel or what to do.

The football coach at Cuthbertson High School in Waxhaw, North Carolina, had just called to let him know the team was changing quarterbacks.

Initially, Brian was elated. Austin, his 14-year-old freshman son who would go on to play at Oklahoma, was going to be the varsity quarterback.

But the celebration was short-lived because that freshman wasn't just replacing any upperclassman.

He was replacing Ryan, his older brother, who was the two-year incumbent.