#2 Texas 47, Oklahoma State 28
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Boone-Pickens Stadium (Stillwater, Okla.)

Texas headed to Stillwater to face what appeared to be a struggling Oklahoma State team that was 0-4
in conference play, but instead ended up facing a 19-point first-half deficit. QB Vince Young turned in
one of the best single-game performances in NCAA history, and, for the second straight year against
the Cowboys, the Longhorns rebounded in incredible fashion. Trailing 28-9 with just over five minutes
left in the first half, Texas scored 38 unanswered points to win, 47-28, tying the second-largest deficit
overcome in school history. It was just a year earlier against OSU that the Longhorns found themselves
down, 35-7, before rallying for the largest comeback on UT record with 49 unanswered points for a
56-35 win. Even more, in the 2003 game, Texas had trailed, 16-7, and posted 48 unanswered points.
Over the three-year span, the Longhorns outscored the Cowboys in the second half, 118-0. Young
rushed for a career-high 267 yards and two TDs, while passing for 239 yards and two more scores en
route to a UT-record 506 yards of total offense. He became the first player in NCAA history to rush for
over 250 yards and pass for over 230 in the same game. Tight end David Thomas also put together one
of the better games at his position in UT history with 104 yards and a TD on six receptions. A bizarre
first half featured everything for the Cowboys from a quick-snap 49-yard TD pass on 4th-and-1 to a
17-yard QB draw TD following an interception to a 29-yard TD pass that was snatched from the air off
a ricochet from the UT defense. That play itself followed a Texas fumble, which had followed a
blocked field goal (one of four blocked kicks for UT), and gave Oklahoma State its 28-9 lead. A field
goal by PK David Pino just before the half cut the lead before Young opened the second half with one
of the most memorable highlights of the season. On 3rd-and-10 at the Texas 20, Young rolled right,
pump-faked a defender off of his feet and hit the sideline for an 80-yard TD run. Just like that, Texas
was within single digits at 28-19 and would even regain the lead before the end of the third quarter.
Two TDs on an eight-yard run by Young, and a 21-yard TD pass to TE Neale Tweedie, plus a
two-point conversion, put the Horns ahead, 34-28. RB/WR Ramonce Taylor added the final two scores
with TD runs of 57 and 12 yards for the 47-28 final.

(Summary from MackBrown.com)