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Texas 16, Oklahoma 13. So this game looked nothing like the shootout everyone expected -- one star quarterback was knocked out of the game, the other spent most of the afternoon on his back and there were three times as many fumbles as touchdowns -- except in one regard: Injuries and attrition have stripped the Sooners' prolific offense to the bone, especially on its very green offensive line, which couldn't protect Sam Bradford and couldn't establish anything on the ground to help backup Landry Jones.

That's not to say Texas' offensive line was ever in control. It's only by the twists of fate that Bradford was the quarterback who left the game instead of Colt McCoy, who survived four sacks by the Oklahoma defense and a dozen more heavy hits. For some perspective on how uncomfortable McCoy was in the pocket from beginning to end, consider his vaunted completion percentage: After setting a new national record by hitting more than 76 percent of his throws last year and connecting on a national-best 73.4 percent through his first five games this year, McCoy's 21-of-40 effort today (52.5) was his least accurate since October 2007, a span of 23 games. He was forced to get rid of the ball so quickly that the Longhorns' longest gain of the game through the air was 14 yards, on the quick slant to Marquise Goodwin for UT's only touchdown. Sixteen points on 265 total yards was the 'Horns' worst production in both categories since 2006. The battle of "Texas Offense vs. Oklahoma Defense" was clearly won by the Oklahoma defense.

But all of those same lowlights apply to the Sooner offense in its struggle against the Texas D, with a couple extra stingers: a) Bradford was knocked out, maybe for the season this time, on his second big hit of the first quarter, and b) Where the Longhorns were able to find some minimal room on the ground, OU ultimately finished with –18 yards rushing. Landry Jones was not great in Bradford's place, only leading the Sooners to the end zone once in 12 possessions and throwing a couple costly interceptions on their last two drives, but he hardly had a chance when the running game -- the one element of Oklahoma's offense that hadn't been decimated by injuries -- posed no threat whatsoever. The big question for OU coming into the season was the viability of the revamped line minus four longtime, much-feted starters who kept Bradford clean and paved the way for two 1,000-yard rushers in last year's record-smashing run to the BCS title game, and halfway through, the Sooners still have no answer up front against respectable defenses.

For such a marginal difference between two equally talented rivals in an equally hard-fought, hard-hitting and hard-fumbling game, they land in remarkably different places in the end: Texas, unimpressive as it was offensively, remains on track for the Big 12 championship and the national title game with its toughest test in the rearview; Oklahoma falls to 3-3 with a marquee win to date over Baylor, will surely fall out of the polls for the first time since 2005 and faces the second half of the season without its star quarterback and with no consistent identity on offense to replace his presence. If the Sooners have a rally in them, next week at undefeated Kansas (probably as underdogs) is the time to find it.