The Cowboys started off their Big 12 slate 0-1 for the fourth straight year. Mike Gundy is now 7-8 all-time in conference openers and 7-8 all-time against Texas.
It was a back-and-forth affair, and the Cowboys were never really out of it until they were. OSU fought back to score a touchdown and pull within 6 with less than two minutes remaining, but couldn’t make that final stop to give themselves a chance.
That was just one of several things that went wrong on Saturday night in Austin, here are the others that stuck out to me, followed by why I came away from this game strangely optimistic.