We always need to beat our rival, but this particular game... and this particular quarterback of theirs... we just have to win.
Kyler Murray represents everything that our University and team fucking despise---he's aggy; he's a sooner; he handled his recruiting with us in a distasteful way; and he's an entitled, poor sport, bitch ass, prima donna who will not lay it on the line for his team. He has quarterbacked our rival to a top 5 ranking and a potential playoff berth. But we have the opportunity to shut all of that shit down on Saturday like Stonie Clark at the goal line. We have to win.
After last season, I thought there would never be another sooner quarterback that I would dislike more than Baker Mayfield, but here we are. Baker was a douchenozzle turned to 11, but he was a hell of a team player who laid it on the line for his team every week, which I respected. Kyler is a fucking mercenary, soldier of fortune, and nothing more. His head is also more inflated than Dolly Parton's breasts. The reason he couldn't bring himself to even remotely acknowledge Ehlinger's capable quarterback play is because, in Kyler's mind, Ehlinger is so far beneath him that he simply cannot deign to entertain a discussion that puts his name in the same sentence with another quarterback's. Kyler must stand alone (even if just barely to 5 feet).
The game on Saturday is just another stop on the road for Kyler and his team. Kyler believes it is his entitled destiny to win a CFP title "just for funsies" before he heads off to MLB next year. For our team, however, this game is basically our season. It's already been established as extremely likely that we are landing in the Sugar Bowl regardless of this game's outcome, but winning a Big 12 title is something we haven't done in nearly a decade, and winning it this year would exorcise a lot of demon monkeys that have been on our back since we lost Colt against Alabama. I believe that this game simply means more to us than it means to them. And it means a hell of a lot to them, considering what's on the line. We have to win.
Fuck Kyler Murray, fuck his team, and fuck his entitled destiny. I wish him the best in baseball, but in football he needs to get the fuck off my field. This is our time (and it's been a long fucking time). Although we already beat his ass in October, Kyler, his team, and all their fans, are absolutely certain that the October outing was a fluke. It was not. They are relishing in their opportunity to prove that it was a fluke. They will be disappointed. This is the game that will officially mark the shifting of power in the Big 12 back into our favor. OU's star is fading; after this season they will be without a quarterback and possibly even without a head coach. With a win on Saturday, we can proudly and confidently utter the phrase that has been little more than a meme for the past several seasons. You know the one.
We have to win. There just really is no other option. See you in Arlington.