Austin, Texas ? Texas players said they weren’t looking past Oklahoma State to their matchup with rival Oklahoma.

Right.

The No. 2 Longhorns will have a hard time getting anyone to believe them after Saturday’s 17-15 victory over the Cowboys that took cornerback Rod Babers’ defensive stop on a 2-point conversion and a drive-killing interception in the fourth quarter to seal the win.

“It was a good, hard fight,” said Texas quarterback Chris Simms, who passed for 267 yards and a touchdown and ran for another in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

“I think it’s really good we got a good hard test like this.”

Entering next week’s showdown against rival Oklahoma, Texas is 5-0 for the first time since 1983.

Missed field goals, a dropped touchdown pass and an inability to put the Cowboys away in the second nearly did Texas in.

“Not many good things happened to us today,” said Texas coach Mack Brown, who tried to find the positive.

“It’s good to be in tight games because our kids are tested. You need to be in some fights. It’s dangerous for us every week. I hope our fans learned something today.”

It was a fight Texas could have lost.

Leading 17-9 in the fourth, Texas pinned OSU on its own 1 after a punt. Josh Fields then hit Rashaun Woods for a 25-yard completion, and a 25-yard run by Seymore Shaw quickly moved the ball to midfield for the Cowboys (2-3, 0-1).

Texas defender Rod Babers (21) keeps Oklahoma State receiver Rashaun Woods (82) out of the end zone on a two-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter. The defensive stand helped the No. 2 Longhorns defeat the Cowboys, 17-15, Saturday in Austin, Texas.

Facing third-and-23 from the Texas 33, Fields threw a prayer to John Lewis, who came down with the ball just inside the goal line for the touchdown.

On the 2-point try, Fields found Woods at the goal line, but his back was turned to the end zone and Babers stopped him before he could get across.

No. 3 Oklahoma 31, Missouri 24

Columbia, Mo. Oklahoma needed some trickery to counter the play of Missouri’s Brad Smith, scoring a touchdown on a fake field goal with 6:33 remaining.

Holder Matt McCoy’s perfect lob to Chris Chester, who caught the pass between two defenders, kept the Sooners unbeaten at 5-0 (1-0 Big 12).

Missouri (3-2, 0-1) drove to Oklahoma’s 35 in the final 20 seconds, but Smith got sacked on fourth down.

Smith, a redshirt freshman, had 213 yards rushing a record for a Missouri quarterback with two touchdowns. He also threw for 178 yards and a score. He led the Tigers back from a 23-7 deficit to a 24-23 lead, but his two fourth-quarter interceptions were costly.

Texas Tech 48, No. 23 Texas A&M 47, OT

College Station, Texas Kliff Kingsbury threw his fifth touchdown pass in overtime and Robert Treece followed with the extra point as Texas Tech (4-2) rallied from an 18-point deficit. The Aggies’ loss spoiled a stellar performance by quarterback Dustin Long, who threw seven touchdown passes to set a Big 12 record. His last score was a 3-yard strike to Terrence Thomas in the extra period that put Texas A&M (3-2) ahead 47-41. But John Pierson missed the extra point his second one of the game.

Nebraska 38, McNeese State 14

Lincoln, Neb. Jammal Lord set Nebraska records for total yards and rushing yards by a quarterback as the Cornhuskers bounced back from consecutive losses against Division I-AA McNeese State. Lord ran 17 times for 218 yards and three touchdowns, breaking the school’s single-game rushing mark of 199 yards.