Following their second successive defeat, Texas coach Tom Herman and quarterback Sam Ehlinger regreted the groups mistakes.
The No. 22 Longhorns devoted 10 penalties, had three turnovers and made several special-teams miscues in a 53-45 four-overtime loss to competing Oklahoma on Saturday in Dallas.
” A lot of them are self-inflicted wounds, and Im dissatisfied,” Herman said. “Its my task to make certain that they do not take place.”
Ehlinger, who last week said following a loss to TCU that “this university should have better,” was left disappointed with a number of the very same kinds of issues that plagued Texas in the previous loss.
” We showed the football group we are at completion when we avoid of our own method, when we do not have charges and a lot of various errors that are self-inflicted,” Ehlinger stated. “Its regrettable and weve got to get much better.”
Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger runs for a touchdown in overtime against Oklahoma on Saturday, however the Sooners won the video game in the fourth overtime. Andrew Dieb/USA TODAY SportsAsked if he believed the Longhorns (2-2, 1-2 Big 12) are an excellent team, Ehlinger stated: “Yeah, this is an excellent team.”
” We have the skill; thats not the issue,” Ehlinger stated. “We have the plans; thats not the issue. We always appear to be tripping ourselves up. Getting in our own method, making mistakes at crucial times and the best teams dont do that.”
The Longhorns saw a punt blocked, a basket blocked and the video game ended on an interception tossed by Ehlinger, who represented a game-high 399 yards and six touchdowns. The Sooners (2-2, 1-2) made their reasonable share of mistakes too, devoting 11 charges, three turnovers and missing a basket.
After what Herman described “an excellent week of practice” and the “finest Sunday after a loss that weve ever had in our program,” the Longhorns were still ruing their own problems.
” Its regrettable, however we cant change the past,” Ehlinger stated.
Said Herman: “Now what we have to do is we have to find a way psychologically to do the things to equate what we deal with and we perform at a really high level in practice, to do that in a game. Whichs all I understand how to do.”
” We have the talent; thats not the issue,” Ehlinger said. “We have the plans; thats not the issue. Getting in our own way, making mistakes at crucial times and the best groups dont do that.”
