STILLWATER, OKLA. ? No. 25 Oklahoma State can describe its loss at Texas in many ways. Disheartening, demoralizing or deflating would all work perfectly.

But the Cowboys (6-3, 3-3 Big 12), who have missed opportunities to upend the No. 2 and No. 6 teams in consecutive weeks, are hoping instead to characterize the 56-35 loss — in which they let a 28-point lead slip away — as forgettable.

Tailback Vernand Morency, who scored two touchdowns as the Cowboys built a 35-7 first-half lead, said the loss was hard to take when the final seconds ticked off the clock Saturday but it didn’t take long after that for him to discard the memory.

“If you don’t let it go, it can dwell in you the whole year,” Morency said. “The best thing to do is just forget about it and move on.”

The game was an opportunity to put a gigantic notch in the program’s belt. It would have been not only a win against the sixth-ranked team in the country, but a chance for the Cowboys to increase their standing in the Big 12 South.

But after 49 straight points by Texas, it was hardly a game the Cowboys want to remember.

“I don’t think that anybody is going to forget it,” Oklahoma State coach Les Miles said. “I just think they have to go to what is the task at hand. They have to. There’s no way to change the outcome of last Saturday’s game. That’s done. That’s history.”

“We can learn from those examples, those mistakes and we can certainly learn from the positive things in that game as well.”

Quarterback Donovan Woods said he stopped thinking about the game as soon as the Cowboys were done watching film.

Oklahoma State tailback Vernand Morency, left, makes his cut before meeting Texas middle linebacker Aaron Harris. OSU fell to Texas, 56-35, Saturday in Austin, Texas.

“You can’t do nothing else about it (except) understand the things what you did in the game good and bad,” Woods said. “The bad things you correct, the good things you continue to build on and go from there.”

Along with the negative — seven Longhorns touchdowns on seven consecutive drives — there was plenty for the Cowboys to be happy about. In the first 29 minutes, they forced two turnovers without committing any, scored on five of their six possessions and outgained Texas in yardage 306 to 136.

A Texas touchdown 3 seconds before halftime cut it to 35-14 and gave the Longhorns hope and, more importantly, momentum. After six more Longhorns touchdowns, the Cowboys left the field in shock.

With a week to put the game behind, guard Sam Mayes said he didn’t expect there to be any lingering effect when Oklahoma State plays Baylor (3-6, 1-5) today.

“I think we’ll go out there and play our best football,” Mayes said. “Losing two games in a row is not Oklahoma State. It’s not us. I expect the guys to regroup and go out and do what we do best: run the ball, pound the ball and play hard-nosed football.”