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Steve Sarkisian on favorite State Fair Foods · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: A reminder, Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark. We record the
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  program today and you'll hear it tomorrow night at seven
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  o'clocke here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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  But if you want to come out for the show,
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  we have question cards that you can fill out if
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  you have a question for Sark, and we'll get to those.
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  We'll talk some State Fair deep fried food with him,
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  and we'll do a little more of that coming up
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  next segment, and also, obviously we'll talk about this matchup
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  between the Long Words and the Sooner speaking of which
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  this is from the SEC teleconference, And if you were
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  at the press conference on Monday, which we brought to
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  you live here on the Zone, you heard Sart talk
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  about his respect and admiration for this game, the Red
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  River rivalry matchup. They've played it one hundred nineteen times.
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  This will be number one twenty. They played it continuously
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  on the fair grounds of the State Fair of Texas
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  since nineteen twenty nine, and they used to play in
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  the old Fairground Stadium. It was a wooden structure that
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  burned to the ground, and then when the Cotton Bowl
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  Stadium itself was built, they started playing it continuously there
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  in nineteen thirty seven, and it's undergone some renovation a
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  couple of times, and there'll be some more coming, I
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  think in the future. But it's the home every year
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  for this game, and we know all about the special
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  nature of it with the Sooner fans occupying the south
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  end of the field from the fifty yard line end
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  to the tunnel and the long worn fans occupying the
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  north end from the fifty yard line out to the
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  north end of the stadium. So it's half burn orange
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  white and half Crimson cream and it makes for quite
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  a quite an interesting television shot as well, in a
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  spectacle when you walk into the state. That makes it
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  different than Florida Georgia, and it makes it different from
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  other rivalry games that are played at neutral sites as well.
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  So it's it's really cool to see. And Sark expressed
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  a lot of respect and admiration for that game. So
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  he was asked on the teleconference if this Texas OU game,
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  now that he's had three of those games under his belt,
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  does this game rank as the best rivalry he's been
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  a part of. Remember he was, you know, assistant coach,
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  offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach played color at Alabama, which means
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  Iron Bowl with Auburn, which is a home and home.
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  But does this Texas OU game rank as the best
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  rivalry he's been a part of? And more's the point,
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  because so much emotion and energy is spilled out onto
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  the Cotton Bowl turf, does he worry about his team
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  peaking too early in the week emotionally leading up to it?
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  Speaker 2: I would argue this is this is the premiere one
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  to be part of. And like you hit the nail
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  on the head there. I've been part of some great games,
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  some great rivalries. This one is just so unique. Obviously,
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  being a neutral site is one that it's never here
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  in it. It's not the home at home, the setting
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  of the game, the time of year, a lot of
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  rivalry games or later in the season, but this this
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  happened at this time of the year. The way the
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  stadium is set up, the way the locker rooms are
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  set up, There's so much that goes into it. And
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  then you just think about the history and tradition, the coaches,
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  the players, the teams that have been involved in this game,
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  the proximity for both schools to Dallas. Uh, There's so
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  many things that go into it. It just creates such
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  an amazing environment that you know, we really try to
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  cherish as a team and take in. We try not
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  to lose sight of that, of what we get to.
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  Speaker 1: Be part of.
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  Speaker 2: And and to your point about getting too emotional or
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  getting emotionally charged too soon, I would agree. You know,
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  I think you have to you have to kind of
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  tempo it as we'd like to say. It's kind of
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  a crescendo to the game, and so you want to
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  build it accordingly, because the best thing we can do
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  is play well. And the best way to play well
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  is to prepare really well, to be focused in practice, right,
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  having the right mental intensity in practice, being really attentive
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  in meetings, understanding the whise, and then that that should
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  build just enough confidence to go out and play well.
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  You know, I think when you get too emotionally charged up,
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  you're worried about things that are kind of irrelevant to
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  the outcome of the game, but they can prove to
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  be relevant when selfish decisions get made, or coverages get blown,
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  or blocking assignments get missed because you weren't quite engaged
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  enough on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to go out
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  and perform well on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Question about going up against that Brent Venables coached Oklahoma defense,
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  which right now, in case you're wondering what the numbers show,
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  they are twenty seventh in the nation against the run.
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  Now they are seventy fifth against the past total defense,
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  forty first, scoring defense nineteenth. And he was asked about this,
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  about facing this Brent Venables coach defense and the challenges
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  it presents.
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  Speaker 2: Really challenging. I said, he's one of the best in
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  the country of doing it. He's like said, his teams
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  play hard, they played with great effort. They're physical, they're tough,
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  very ball aware, opportunistic creating turnovers and so and then
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  he's got a multitude of defenses. So it's definitely a
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  heck of a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Another challenge Sark will tell you is defending Oklahoma's freshman
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  quarterback from Frisco Emerson Michael Hawkins Junior got inserted into
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  the ball game against Tennessee when they were down and,
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  as Toby Rowland told us in the first hour of
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  the program, really floundering, kind of rallied them a little bit,
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  led him to the road win at Auburn. So what
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  about the challenge of this very versatal, mobile quarterback and
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  really good athlete, Michael Hawkins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the one thing about Hawkins is, you know,
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  he's got a skill set to where he's more than
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  capable of a passer and they use some obviously on
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  some designed runs and things, and that that's hurt people too.
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  But you know, really the Auburn game, the first touchdown
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  run that he had was a pass and now you're
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  starting to defend receivers and then you know, Auburn got
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  out of their rush lanes and he was able to
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  split them right down the middle of the field for
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  about a fifty yard touchdown run, you know, and he
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  showed the elite speed and elusiveness and so that that's
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  probably the challenge, is that he's the versatility that he has,
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  his ability to throw it, his ability to run it
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  on design runs, and then his ability to tuck it
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  in run on pass plays, and so that stresses you
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  from a defensive perspective.
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  Speaker 1: He will make Oklahoma's offense better. That the numbers offensively
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  were so poor for Oklahom at the start before he
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  got in there, that it's been a slow climb. There's
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  still one hundredth in the nation rushing offense, one to
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  eighteen in passing offense, twenty one in total offense. But
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  they've been able to score some more through sixty ninth
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  in scoring offense as well. And then one other question
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  with regard to Isaiah Bond. We saw Bond score on
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  the speed sweep against Mississippi State on that end a
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  round and he really seems to have got his footing.
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  You know, it's interesting during the fall camp workouts, Start
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  didn't talk effusively, didn't say an awful lot about Isaiah Bond,
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  and it was the other guys. It was like Silas Bolden,
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  and then clearly the regulars like a DeAndre Moore and
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  John te Cook who had stepped up, Brian Wingo as
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  a as a true fresh been playing well. And then
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  even in the transfer area, Matthew Golden and Silas Bolden
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  we're mentioned more often than Bond. But now Bond of
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  late has really begunnen to emerge. He's caught twenty passes
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  and that's more than any other loghorn right now for
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  three hundred and sixty four yards. He's averaging over eighteen
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  yards per catch. He has the three touchdowns, he has
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  the two carries, including that twenty six yard speech sweep
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  for a touchdown. So Sark was asked about bond, going
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  back to the if you will bond that the two developed,
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  you know, when he was recruiting him, when he was
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  in Georgia, before he even got to Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Isaiah has been a great addition to the team.
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  You know, the transfer guys, it's always difficult because you know,
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  they get ingrained into the culture that they're coming from
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  and the style of play and the practice habits and
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  all those things, and then we have a firm belief
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  and how we'd like to operate. But I give Isaiah
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  a lot of credit because he's continued to work it,
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  work at it and buy into what we're doing. You know,
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  I think, you know, his his ability to pick up
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  pick up our offense systematically and have an impact kind
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  of instantaneously for us has been big. And he and
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  he's improved a ton from where he was in spring
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  ball to where he is now. You know, he's a
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  he's a big play waiting to happen. But yet I
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  think we're starting to see him do even more and
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  more of the little things, you know, the way we'd
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  like it to be done. And I think that, you know,
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  he's creating value for himself, not only within our organization,
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  but I think, you know, for for a future playing
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  this game in the NFL. I think people are starting
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  to see the value that he possesses. But yeah, he's
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  been a great addition for us.
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  Speaker 1: Wondering about the the in case you were wondering about
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  the UH numbers, the Texas numbers as are related nationally
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  and in the SEC. The rushing offense is thirty seventh
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  in the country, sixth in the SEC, passing offense tenth
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  in the nation, third in the SEC, total offense seventh
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  in the nation, third in the SEC, scoring offense seventh
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  in the nation, second in the SEC. So some impressive
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  numbers there, but they're going to clearly get their sternest
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  test to date from an opposing defense in the one
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  they'll see from Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon in the Cotton Bowl.
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  I don't think there's any doubt about that. All Right,
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  coming up, we'll have some more on these State Fair
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  foods and we'll get you updated. Also on the baseball playoffs.
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  Are two games in progress going on right now, so
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  stay let's we continue on this Wednesday afternoon here on
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  sports Radio Am thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.