Defense wins championships, as cliché as it may be.
But when it comes to Saturday’s Red River Showdown Part II, the tired old saying will take on a different meaning.
Sure, the Longhorns’ defense has a very large task at hand in attempting to contain the Sooners’ Heisman hopeful quarterback, Kyler Murray. But it’s Oklahoma’s less-than impressive-defense that may very well be what wins Texas its first Big 12 Championship in nine years, because OU’s defense is bad.
Really bad.
Many statistics are available to support the obvious fact that Oklahoma, despite firing defensive coordinator Mike Stoops halfway through the season in search of a new identity on the opposite side of the ball, has just been downright atrocious.