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DALLAS (AP) — Before Maryland, or San Jose State, or Southern California, or Iowa State, or Kansas State, the Texas Longhorns had a countdown clock in their locker room.

For the Oklahoma game.

Tom Herman might be new to the rivalry as a head coach, but the former Texas assistant is acting like a veteran of the half-burnt orange, half-crimson Cotton Bowl spectacle that takes center stage at the Texas State Fair in Dallas again Saturday.

"I remember it being like 108 days a long time ago," linebacker Malik Jefferson said. "Time flies, and you look at the hallway coming in to build up to this mom...