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Check it out, OSU beat OU (NO ONE thought THAT was possible) we are going to the Big 12 Championship game VS. Colorado. Damn we're smooth. Hook'em Horns. Brett. AUSTIN -- Texas coach Mack Brown was channel surfing through college football Saturday, hoping his team would get a break. It wasn't too long before his television was locked in on the second half of Oklahoma State's 16-13 upset of Oklahoma. His phone was ringing off the hook as the final seconds ticked down. Brown's fifth-ranked Longhorns were now Big 12 South Division champs and headed to the conference title game next Saturday against Colorado. "I had some players calling and screaming with 20 seconds left," Brown said. "Our two sons and my wife were screaming and shouting like they were on the sidelines. We had some unsportsmanlike conduct there, I think." Brown said he tried to stay calm after the Cowboys took the lead in the final two minutes. He was trying to figure out how many timeouts and how much yardage the Sooners needed to pull off the victory or at least tie and send it to overtime. "That's what coaches do," Brown said. "We're trying to figure out how to win the game." Ranked 11th or higher all season, Texas (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) had been on the outside looking in at the South division title. The Sooners handed Texas its only defeat back in October and had the head-to-head advantage before Saturday. The Sooners were heavy favorites to beat Oklahoma State before the loss dropped the Sooners to 10-2 overall, 6-2 in the Big 12. "You really don't know in this crazy game of college football what's going to happen," Brown said. "As of yesterday, nobody thought Colorado and Texas would be in this ball game." Colorado (9-2, 7-1) won the North division with its 62-36 whipping of Nebraska on Friday, a game the Texas players could listen to on their way home from a 21-7 win over Texas A&M. The Longhorns defeated Colorado 41-7 back in October. Brown said the rematch should be much closer. "We won the game handily but they had some turnovers early in the game. Obviously they're playing much better now than they were then," he said. Colorado coach Gary Barnett said his team is happy to have another crack at Texas. "We'll be primed for the rematch," Barnett said. "We know we didn't play very well the first time and we'd like to think that wasn't who we really are." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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