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Dicker The Kicker is your new favorite College Football legend

ByJosh Hill|
DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 06: Cameron Dicker #17 of the Texas Longhorns kicks the game-winning field goal against the Oklahoma Sooners in the fourth quarter of the 2018 AT&T Red River Showdown at Cotton Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 06: Cameron Dicker #17 of the Texas Longhorns kicks the game-winning field goal against the Oklahoma Sooners in the fourth quarter of the 2018 AT&T Red River Showdown at Cotton Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Cameron Dicker was already having a good freshman season at Texas, but became a legend on Saturday in the Red River Rivalry.

You’ll be hearing a lot about A Star Is Born this weekend. Not the Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper missle of a movie they launched into the zeitgeist, but Texas Longhorns kicker Cameron Dicker

In a matter of moments, Dicker went from a freshman kicker who was having a pretty alright season already, to DICKER THE KICKER, TEXAS GAWD.

Here’s the setup: After boom-roasting Oklahoma for three entire quarters, Texas hemorrhaged a 45-17 lead and allowed Kyler Murray to tie the game. It was at this point we thought the legend of the day would be Murray, who has already solidifed his God Mode status over the first handful of games this season. Even today, the Sooners quarterback threw for over 300 yards and four touchdowns, rushing for an additional fifth.

But it would be Dicker that ended up the G.O.A.T. when the dust settled. With the game tied, Dicker took the field with a chance to all but assure a win for Texas.

It has all the makings of a classic College Football moment.

  1. It was the game-winning kick of a rivalry game
  2. His name is Cameron Dicker (Beavis laugh)
  3. Gus Johnson was calling the game

That’s the concoction you’re looking for to make the tastiest college football cocktail possible — and it lived up to the moment.

Johnson set the entire thing up in a way only he can, building his voice’s tenor by exclaiming “A CHILD WILL LEAD”. Then Dicker graduated from being a freshman kicker to Dicker The Kicker, Texas Legend.

If we’re talking seriously about who from Texas should be carried off the field after the upset win over Oklahoma, it’s obviously Sam Ehlinger who was just about perfect on the afternoon. He wasn’t quite on Murray’s level, but he didn’t turn the ball over once and kept the Longhorns offense grooving all day.

But he’s the baby-faced quarterback of a major college program; he had himself a day and will have plenty more. This is all about Dicker The Kicker and the star we saw born in front of our eyes deep in the heart of Texas.

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