ARLINGTON -- Other than the fact that you couldn't find a decent corny dog on the premises Saturday, the most obvious difference between the original and Texas-OU Two was the Sooners actually played a little defense at JerryWorld.
Same dazzling Kyler Murray, on Heisman watch.
Same gritty Sam Ehlinger.
Just enough Sooner defense, which, until Saturday, couldn't stop a check.
Or at least that was the storyline immediately after Oklahoma's 39-27 win in front of 83,114, the largest crowd ever for a conference championship game anywhere. Combined with the fact that the Big 12 title game afforded the fifth-ranked Sooners an opportunity to make their final College Football Playoff pitch, it set up as a banner day for Bob Bowlsby's bunch.