DALLAS — The Sooners looked empty.
As empty as the cattle barns, which didn’t even so much as emit an odor.
As empty as the field at halftime, while videos played historic concerts of the Pride of Oklahoma and the Showband of the Southwest.
As empty as the Texas Star Ferris Wheel, moving ever so slowly, just to remind the relatively few fans in attendance that, yes indeed, a glorious state fair once thundered through these grounds.
Quarterback Sam Ehlinger and his scrappy Longhorns had taken this Twilight Zone OU-Texas game to overtime. The Sooners had the game in hand but long ago lost the ability to hang on to even the most comfortable of leads.