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Bye Week Fodder- Texas' Historic Game Recommendations
First, a three part series comes to mind: First, to get the flavor if you will of Texas-OU in the 1970s, and to see just how talented all of the defensive players seemed to be, watch the 1976 Texas-OU game. If you like defense and special teams, wow, unbelievable!! Just writing about this game stresses me!! Then follow that by watching the 1977 Texas-OU game. Again a feast for the defensive player in your soul, but also Earl!!! Earl had to be heisman worthy just to score one touchdown against the incredibly talented OU defense. I think this was the game that was televised only in Oklahoma City and Austin. ABC was not allowed to pick up the game, because OU was on probation. I believe it was a TV crew split-half Texas, half OU. I think Steve Ross was a commentator for the Texas side. Finally a kicking exhibition broke out the next week in Arkansas. After probably the hardest hitting game of the year, we had to travel to Arkansas and play against Steve Little and the razorbacks. great catch and run by Earl. To my memory he only caught two passes that year, one against Ark. and one against Aggy, both screen passes, both very successful. Switching to the offensive side of the ball; pick any game that we won in the mid 1980s that featured Eric Metcalf starting. Truly amazing. I only saw him in person one time, in a loss against Aggy, but he was absolutely out-of-this world elusive. Finally, since you said before 2005, correct? Go back and watch the 2004 Texas-OSU game. We knew what would happen in '05, because of what happened in 2004. Oops, one honorable mention type game that is probably not even on YouTube. We all know that we had to play three QBs against OU in 1977. However, few people remember that McEachern would also become bothered by a minor injury and true freshman Sam Ansley would start against either SMU or TCU. But, Ansley had to go out for one play during the game, equipment problem I think. So someone yells at Ricky Churchman DB, and he takes the snap, hands off to Earl, and Earl scores a 30 something yard TD! (I am 100% Ricky was a DB, but I am not 100% sure he was the DB who took the snap.) I could be wrong, but I believe that cements 1977 as the year that the most QBs played in a game. four QBs, and one DB took snaps. I think the case could be made that 5 players taking a snap in an undefeated regular season is probably the highest number in NCAA history. - 
	
		
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