Which is exactly the point.

So great a win, it was groundbreaking and nostalgic at the same time.

The reason Bob Stoops has taken so much heat after winning his fourth and fifth Big 12 championships, after delivering OU to its fifth and sixth BCS bowl appearances is everybody remembers when he never lost in the big atmosphere, when people wondered if everything he touched really did turn into gold.

This was like those days.

This is what the Sooners twice did to Texas, once winning by 49 and once by 52. This is what they did to Washington at the Rose Bowl, even if that was by a mere 20 points. This was the swagger that allowed the Sooners to come back that day at Texas A&M when they trailed and trailed and trailed until Jason White found Mark Bradley running the wrong route and they won.

OU never left and yet it feels like the Sooners are back.

“We didn’t do anything fancy,” Stoops said.

No, nothing fancy.

But one linebacker, Travis Lewis, made 13 tackles and brought an interception back 47 yards. Another one, Keenan Clayton, picked up a fumble on the run and brought it back 54. And Bradford threw one of those deep balls others may throw but not nearly as often and Manny Johnson reeled it in with almost nothing but the left arm nobody could stomach looking at just four weeks ago against Kansas.

You have to feel for Texas.

The Longhorns were so good for so long this season. Colt McCoy has been great all season. It was anybody’s game that day at the Cotton Bowl and Texas made sure it wasn’t OU’s.

But it’s not that simple.

Since, Tech beat Texas and OU beat Tech.

Really, really, really bad.

Now everybody’s even.