DALLAS — Oklahoma’s going to win. Easily. Texas is a mess.

It’s true, the Sooners get better throughout the season, just as it’s true they’re more dangerous after a loss, just as it’s true every assumption ever made about this team back when it was 4-0 is baloney if Texas’ two-year winning streak becomes three. And OU’s going have to lay back-to-back eggs for the Sooner Nation, or even an objective observer, to get their head around that.

So, it’s OU’s game.

Maybe with a bullet.

Maybe with defense.

Maybe with slingin’ Sam throwing the ball.

Maybe with Allen Patrick running for two bills.

Indeed, Saturday’s fun ought to be a matter of identifying the hero, because doesn’t somebody always emerge?

From Earl Campbell to Marcus Dupree to that guy who stuffed James Allen at the goal line, to the Saturday Ricky Williams and DeMond Parker wouldn’t let two lousy football teams interrupt an afternoon of can-you-top-this that meant nothing to the nation but everything to everybody in the seats.

Stars come out

The first snap Jason White ever took at the Cotton Bowl, he audibled into an option, the Sooners scored six and a star was born. Who knew it would take a couple blown knees for that star to end up in Heisman Park?

Nobody, yet White showed everybody something that day. As did Quentin Griffin the day he ran for 248 yards and the day he scored six touchdowns. It was, believe it or not, two different days.

If Bradford returns to his pre-Colorado form, what’s the story?

OU’s likely still out of the national championship race, but the Sooners have a homegrown product with three years left to play who’s already proven himself on the Cotton Bowl stage. Think the Sooner Nation won’t turn their post-Boulder frowns upside down?

One week, everything changes.