If one merely glanced at the final score from the 38-35 road loss Saturday night by the Texas Longhorns to the Oklahoma State Cowboys, one might infer that overall, Texas performed fairly well, but just not well enough to escape a hostile homecoming environment with a win.
Some of the advanced metrics say the same thing — the percentile performance of 59 percent was only the third worst mark of the season and substantially better than the previous game against Baylor.
While in theory, the eyeball tests and that advanced metric tell the truth, at least in the form of a three-point deficit on the scoreboard and a reasonable outcome in the percentile performance, those positive assessments couldn’t be further from the truth on film.