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Holy Shit, Texas Special Teams Bone the Game Again

Texas kickers are not having a good start to the year. This time the punter bones the game.

Texas lost again today, and again it was a Longhorns kicker who will be remembered as the dog. After Oklahoma State tied the game at 27-27 with about a minute and half left, Texas went very conservative on their final possession for a 46-second drive that lost one yard. Then, disaster. Again. Texas was punting from their own 24 and Oklahoma State took over on the 18. It was a punt of negative six yards.

The snap hit true freshman punter Michael Dickson right in the hands, but he must have taken his eyes off the ball just long enough to screw everything up. It bounced off his hands and he had to run it down and just spin around and kick it wherever it might go. It went out of bounds and the Cowboys took over in prime position to steal the game, and of course they did. They ran down the clock and kicked a field goal to win it with six seconds left.

This time it's not just the kicker, though. While OSU still trailed by a field goal, Charlie Strong made the outcome much easier than it had to be after getting himself fired up about a defensive holding call against Texas during that game-tying drive. On first-and-ten from the Texas 44, Poona Ford was flagged for defensive holding, a ten-yard penalty. Strong did not like the call and gave the ref an earful and sort of flexed in anger, earning a personal foul call in addition to the holding. So, instead of first-and-ten at the 34 with three minutes left, OSU had a first-and-ten from the 19. OSU simply ran down the clock, hit the field goal to tie, and kicked off to Texas. You know the rest.

[ESPN]