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There’s a bizarre timeline floating somewhere out there where Colt never gets hurt, Mack rides off into the sunset, and Will Muschamp is just “punchier Nick Saban” when he takes over as coach-in-waiting around 2011 and guides the Texas Longhorns to 12 years of college football bliss and multiple playoff appearances. In this VERY farfetched and hypothetical world, we would be well into a new normal where Texas plays the Oklahoma Sooners TWICE a season the past six years — once in the Cotton Bowl and once in Jerry World for the Big 12 title.