Lads and lasses holding hands and drinking ale under the stars. A sideshow available for voyeurs. No-win football will pitch its tent in Payne County. Southwest Texas can't win. OSU can't win.
Bullies never do.
Score more points and you've beat up the kid with masking tape on his glasses. Score fewer, you're a laughingstock. It's a powerful force. The Cowboys will spend this week looking back at Tulsa and looking ahead at Southern Miss. Coaches will exhort determination and focus to players, whose eyes will narrow and heads will nod as their minds wander to the macaroni and cheese for dinner. Meanwhile, down in San Marcos, Texas, the Bobcats will dream big dreams and pack their slingshots for the ride north.