The Longhorns ran out comprehensive winners against the Bobcats on Friday night, closing out a regular-season fixture at 59-7. It was a one-sided affair from start to finish, though you wouldn't have known that from the opening exchanges. And here's the thing about these blowouts — they rarely look like this until they do.
With a margin of fifty-two points, the Longhorns didn't so much beat the Bobcats as dismantle them. By then, the visitors had already stopped trying to compete in any meaningful sense. To be fair, running up a score like that requires more than just talent on one side.
What struck me watching from the stands was how the Longhorns kept going when they could have eased off. They didn't. Not that it matters much in the grand scheme of a regular-season game, but it says something about the attitude they bring to every snap.
For the Bobcats, the deficit was simply too large to climb out of. They never really got going, and by the second half, the game had become something else entirely — practice for the Longhorns, misery for everyone else.
Five touchdowns to one isn't the kind of result that keeps you awake at night, but when you're on the wrong side of it, it feels like more than that. The Longhorns fancy their chances now, but one mistake ends it all.