For the Texas-OU game, Kyler Murray is the last Sooners star to return "across the border"

The Cotton Bowl contains 92,100 human beings who gorget gluten, and although it may seem discouraging to start a first rivalry with Red River with half of the spectators dressed in crimson and cream and the other dressed up. burnt orange, Kyler Murray did a stunning apprenticeship in Texas.

In second year high school, Murray racked up 143 yards and 55 and 68 yards rushing, while Allen, 30 miles north of the Cotton Bowl with his stadium and attendance, defeated Lamar, 35-21, for a national title in front of 48,379 at was then called Cowboys Stadium.

As a junior, Murray rushed for 280 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 188 while Allen pulled Pearland 63-28 for a second straight title in front of 54,347 at AT & T.

As a senior athlete, Murray completed 22 of his 32 passes for 316 yards while Allen won the Cypress Ranch, 47-16, before 52.308 at the AT & T Stadium for a third title in a row and the completion of a remarkable childhood in all points of view, finishing 43 games in high school. never once, you know, lose.

Now, he will be playing at the Cotton Bowl because, of course, he will – but with one difference: by flying 7th Oklahoma (5-0) against 19th Texas (4-1), he will defend an impressive reality. The Redshirt Junior will run Oklahoma, a 28th-ranked state with nearly 4 million people who built his football fortune in part by pulling his wealth from Texas, against his hated neighbor, who ranks second with seven times more population in Oklahoma.

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Murray is, of course, refined to appear in public, so at the reporters' questions last weekend, he said, "Yeah, [Texas] I've been recruiting a lot, but "- and he smiles well here -" I do not have much to say about it, other than that it will be fun. "

He stopped at Texas A & M to travel to Oklahoma before his transfer.

The Oklahoma 2018 Index, made up of 41 players from Texas, 29 from Oklahoma and 12 other states, one Canadian province (Ontario) and one Bahamas, is one of the premium indicators. traditional recruitment to the state of Texas. Just six days before his shocking retirement in June 2017, former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops happily tweeted about a "pistol on the other side of the border. And no one had to ask what border he was talking about.

Regarding the quarter, Oklahoma received a Heisman trophy last year from an Austin Texan (provided that Austin was considered part of "Texas"), Baker Mayfield, from Cleveland (the one from Ohio) this week to say, "The last time Texas was ranked in this game was 2012, and it was a beatdown [63-21], so . . . "

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There is now the privilege and flail of Heisman's speech around the former doubled and successor of Mayfield, who repeatedly expresses both the admiration and the personality difference of Mayfield, saying, "Oh, I'm more reserved than him. "

Oklahoma rises again with, this time, the Texan son of a former Texas A & M quarterback, lending the rivalry another chapter of its Texas flavor, Texas State Fair.

However, Murray is also the Oklahoma baseball league player and became the ninth pick in the Major League Baseball draft last June, after which movie star Billy Beane said "I can say that with immense pride, one of the most dynamic athletes we have selected here since I was here. "

To answer a question to Murray by Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle and asking if returning to Norman to play at the quarterback was mandatory, Beane interrupted him and said, "I'm going to make it easy for you. It was a dealbreaker when he do not have return."

He is back with a completion percentage of 70.6%, a magnificent 17-2 ratio for the number of touchdowns and interceptions and a quarterback score of 230.95. It's the man shortly after another The Man, and having lost a start to the match last week against Baylor for too much sleep, said Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley: "He managed the situation [of losing his start] Before the game, I did not get scared as I'm sure the rest of America did it. "

(The rest of America could have included the bettors.)

Once restored, Riley said, "Murray really saw the field and continues throwing the ball, especially on the court, so very well, then a few times when they were under pressure and things were not there, you've seen a little Defense co-ordinator Mike Stoops said, "It looks simple. That's why it's so fascinating to watch it. His game is so calm and he is still under control. "

Now, the man who never debuted at high school or university until Auburn beat Texas A & M late 2015, a man who looks bright in an Oakland Athletics uniform, and a Texan enters the highest measure of that control. Of course, after playing three high school games in Texas in front of a group of 155,034, this may seem like a routine.