Oregon 30, Texas 7
Dec. 30, 2013 • Alamo Bowl, San Antonio
Yeah, we lost. But if you’d told me our defense would give up just 16 points, I would’ve assumed that meant a Longhorn victory. I wouldn’t have imagined we’d let Oregon’s DEFENSE score on us—TWICE. The pick-6’s weren’t the only problem, though. Yet again, our offense seemed incapable of establishing a rhythm. Certainly, a health J. Gray would’ve helped, but the dropped passes, not to mention the east-west plays, killed us.
An eternal optimist, I’m an unapologetic sunshine pumper, but even I wouldn’t have picked the Horns to win this one. When I first heard we’d be facing the Oregon Ducks in the Alamo Bowl, I figured we were doomed. Playing the number 10 team in the nation, surely we would quack crack under pressure, right? Could our unranked Horns fill the bill, or would we end up looking fowl? Sure enough, every time it looked like we could catch up, we laid an egg.
For this TEXAS, I used rubber duckies (they were actually lip gloss containers!), but I could’ve used another water fowl. After all, this game was Mack Brown’s swan song. Even though I knew it was time for new blood, it was still hard to see Mack and Sally leave the field for the last time. Here’s what I put on Facebook after the game:
So now the Mack Brown era is over, and a new coach is waiting in the wings. Under his leadership, may we not just stay afloat but take wing and SOAR.
Game highlights:
And some shots from our visits to Fiesta Texas, the Riverwalk and Ripley’s Believe It or Not near Alamo Plaza:
So there we go: Another season of spelling Texas is in the books, and the countdown for next year is already underway.
HOOK ’EM, HORNS!
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