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Slowing down Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray will be a difficult task for the Texas defense

“The names have changed. I don’t know that the results have at all.”

On Monday, the assessment of the Oklahoma Sooners quarterback situation by Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman told a significant story with only a few words.

A year after Baker Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy, became the No. 1 pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, and posted the highest passer rating in college football since 1956 — and, therefore, undoubtedly the highest passer rating of all time — Mayfield’s replacement, junior Kyler Murray, is on track to break that record with a passer rating that currently sits more than 30 points higher than the mark posted by Mayfield last season.