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The 2005 Texas vs. Oklahoma State football game was held October 29 2005 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Texas's place at the top of the BCS rankings lasted only one week. On October 29 2005 Texas initially trailed but eventually beat an Oklahoma State University Cowboys team that had struggled through the season so far. Texas retained the top spot in the computer rankings, but not by enough to stay ahead of USC in the overall BCS standings.

Texas won the coin toss and elected to defer to the second half. The Texas defense got off to a good start as they held the Cowboys to three and out. The Texas offense took the field and drove to the Oklahoma State 36 yard line before the drive sputtered. Texas sent in David Pino to attempt a field goal but it was blocked by Ryan McBean. Pino recovered the ball at the Oklahoma State 42, which is where the Cowboys took over on offense. OSU called three rushing plays by Mike Hamilton which were essentially negated by a personal foul penalty on David Koenig. On fourth and one at the Texas 49, OSU lined up to go for the first down. The play was a 49 yard pass from Al Pena to D'Juan Wood for a touchdown. The extra point by Bruce Redden made the score Texas-0, Oklahoma State-7.

The ensuing kick-off was fielded by Ramonce Taylor at the UT16 and he made a 22 yard return before being tackled by Grant Jones at the UT38. On first down Vince Young threw an incomplete pass which he followed with a nine yard run to bring up third down and one. Henry Melton picked up the first down with a two yard rush. Again Vince Young's first-down pass was incomplete and this was followed by Jamaal Charles losing one yard. On third down and eleven, Vince Young broke free for a 45 yard gain to the OSU seven. The next play resulted in a one yard gain as well as a ten yard holding penalty against UT to set up first and goal from the OSU 16. Young threw an incompletion on first down. On second down, he ran for two yards but another holding penalty moved the ball back to the OSU 24. A four yard pass to Selvin Young and a 20 yard pass to David Thomas netted the Longhorns a touchdown. David Pino's attempt at the extra point was blocked and the score was Texas-6, Oklahoma State-7.

Greg Johnson kicked off for Texas; the ball was taken at the OSU5 by Danie McLemore and his return combined with a five yard encrochment penalty meant that OSU got the ball at the OSU24. They advanced 76 yards in nine plays, concluding in a four yard touchdown run to go up 14-6 over Texas. The drive took 3:18 of game time. UT's next drive was short-lived. Texas got the ball on their onw 34 yard line and Vince Young immediately threw an interctpion to Daniel McLemore who returned the ball to the UT17 before Vince Young made the tackle. On the very next play, Al Pena rushed the 17 yards for a touchdown. The Bruce Reden extra point made the score Texas-6, Oklahoma State-21.

The kickoff to Texas resulted in a touchback and the Longhorns started on their 20. Vince Young rushed for five yards and then 45 yards to get inside Cowboy territory. Then Jamaal Charles was held to a two yard gain and Vince Young threw two incomplete passes. David Pino came in to make the field goal from 45 yards out. This made the score Texas-9, Oklahoma State 21. Oklahoma State ran three plays and got the ball to their 30 yard line as the first quarter ended.

That OSU drive continued, reaching just across mid-field before the Texas defense forced the Cowboys to punt. The coverage team downed the punt at the UT3 yard line so Texas began their series backed-up against their own goal line. A pair of rushing plays (Selving Young for two yards and Vince Young for two yards) brought up third and six and Texas used a time out. When they came back, Vince Young threw an incomplete pass and then Aaron Ross was called on to punt. The punt was fielded by Daniel McLemore at the UT47 and he returned it 32 yards to the UT15 before being tackled by the punter. OSU was unable to score a touchdown so Bruce Redden attempted the field goal; it was blocked by Michale Huff who took the ball out to UT's 30 yard line. On the very next play, Vince Young fumbled to give the ball back to the Cowboys at the UT29. Al Pena threw one incomplete pass before connected with D'Juan Woods for the 29 yard touchdown. The extra point put the score at Texas-9, Oklahoma State 28.

Ramonce Taylor fielded the kick-off for Texas and brought the ball out 42 yards to the UT46; a personal foul against OSU tacked on another 15 yards and Texas started their possession on the Cowboy 39 yard line. Texas drove down to the OSU four yard line but they were not able to get to the end zone. David Pino made a field goal as time expired and the teams went to the locker room with the score at Texas-12, Oklahoma State-28.

The scoring in the second half was all done by Texas as the Longhorns scored 35 unanswered points. Three scores came in the third quarter. The first two were touchdown runs by Vince Young: an 80 yard run and an eight yard run. Both of these were followed by kicks by David Pino. That left Texas trailing by two points. The third touchdown was a 21&nbps;yard pass from Young to Nele Tweedie. After this touchdown Texas made a two point conversion on a pass to Ahmard Hall to put the score at UT-34, OSU-28. The fourth quarter brought two more Texas touchdowns. The first was from a 57 yard Ramonce Taylor run. Texas again decided to go for the two point conversion but failed. The final touchdown was another Ramonce Taylor run - this one from twelve yards out. David Pino made the point after to produce what would end up being the final score: Texas-47, Oklahoma State-28.

Despite Oklahoma State's 0-5 start to conference play, Texas found themselves trailing the entire first half, including a deficit of as much as seventeen points at one time in the game. It was the third straight year that Texas found themselves trailing Oklahoma State at halftime, and for the third straight year, Texas came from behind to win by a sizable margin (47-28). Vince Young set a school record for total yards in one game with 506 yards (239 passing, 267 rushing) while leading the team to victory. Young is one of only seven players in NCAA history to have accumulated over 200 yards rushing and 200 yards passing in a single game. Over the past three meetings between the two schools (2003-2005), the Longhorns outscored the Cowboys by a combined second-half score of 118 to 0.

TBS announced that the Longhorns’ come-from-behind victory scored a record viewership rating of 1.927 million viewers. This represented a 21 percent increase over the previous high for Southern California vs. Stanford in 2004.