Written by Chuck Culpepper at Washington Post.com
The season began on Saturday afternoon, as it should, with something woolly and berserk. It began with a left heel planted inches inside the back line of an end zone in a third quarter, and a wily senior return man reaching up to catch a missed 53-yard field goal, then running while listening for whistles. Who dreams up this stuff?
In one skillful sweep, Brandon Wilson kept himself inbounds and corralled the football with his right leg slightly off the ground, and once he embarked, about 60 percent of NRG Stadium started booming right along with him. By the time he got finished romping 109-plus yards past a toothless, disorganized Oklahoma resistance, he had pushed Houston ahead by 26-17, changed the contour of a big game and changed the conversation of an early national season.
The season would stir already.
Further, the Big 12 Conference offices might even notice the score, what with Houston among its candidates for expansion. That’s a Houston program that has spent its last two games beating Florida State (in the Peach Bowl) and Oklahoma under second-year star Coach Tom Herman, and that would have led Oklahoma 40-17 with four minutes left had it not fumbled at the 1-yard line. It does raise a question.
You sure you want to import this titan?
“I’m not impressed,” Houston senior quarterback Greg Ward Jr. said of the so-called “statement.” He also said, “We don’t worry about those type of things.”
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