Category Archives: Texas Football

Texas is No. 1

Posted on October 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas is No. 1

In the AP and coach’s (USA Today) polls. Probably prematurely. Only week seven. Long way to go.

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Texas vs Oklahoma

Posted on October 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas vs Oklahoma

That it will not be an easy game for Texas is obvious after the first two drives, when it’s OK 7, TX 3.

UPDATE: At the half, it’s OK 21, TX 20. Hard fought and lots of excitement from both sides. It looks like Texas could win this thing, which would upset a lot of bookies but make me happy.

FINAL: Texas wins it, 45 to 35 in an instant classic! Next: Missouri. Another tough opponent.

LATER: The daily’s Kirk Bohls, who predicted an OU win, proves he can eat crow when it’s warranted.

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Beat Zero U

Posted on October 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Beat Zero U

Ball-control, history shows, will make the difference this Saturday in the Cotton Bowl.

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Texas vs Colorado

Posted on October 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas vs Colorado

Should be a pretty easy opener of the Big Twelve season for Texas, as these things go. A tune-up, you might say, tonight, for what likely will be a tough one, next week, against Oklahoma.

ADDENDUM: It was pretty easy, beating Colorado 38 to 14. And next week definitely won’t be.

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Horns on a roll

Posted on September 28, 2008 | Comments Off on Horns on a roll

Big wins in the first four pre-conference games look really good. But Colorado’s next, and Oklahoma thereafter. If Colorado falls, then the Longhorns certainly will have a chance to beat the Sooners. But only if that happens, will these first four victories be vindicated. Then, of course, it’ll be on to another questionable result with Missouri. Colt’s looking great. But he has to stay that way.

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Vince, we hardly knew ye

Posted on September 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Vince, we hardly knew ye

Vince Young, injured and depressed at being booed when he throws an interception, seems to be a different fellow than the one who won a national title for the Longhorns in 2005–after throwing more than a few interceptions.

Now he’s talking of suicide and carrying a gun in the glove compartment of his car. Even with Chris Sims (Chris Sims!) to mentor him now he seems to be having second thoughts about the NFL, possibly because of all the pressure: the hits, the fans, the coaches, all the relatives with their hands in his pockets. Hey, Vince, you can always come back to Austin and sell cars.

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Stocking up

Posted on September 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Stocking up

Lots of folks at the grocery this morning buying up bottled water, batteries and canned goods, in anticipation of possible lengthy power outages if Ike’s core comes close to Austin after crossing the coast early Saturday. Mom, visiting friends in Maryland, is scheduled to come back Saturday but now may have to wait until Sunday, if Austin’s airport is closed. Texas Longhorns home game Saturday with Arkansas has already been postponed. 

Local forecast sounded dire yesterday: Not just torrential rain all-day and all-night Saturday, but sustained winds of 50 to 70 mph. Meaning trees downed and flying limbs and other debris. Today’s forecast is milder, with winds only gusting to 45 mph and less rain. Evacuees from the coast still may be sorry they came. All depends on how close the core comes to us. Fifty miles east would be good. Ten miles west would be a true disaster. Meanwhile Ike is already bigger than Katrina in ’05. It’s pussyfooting through a patch of cool water in mid-Gulf this morning, but is expected to strengthen. Lots of uncertainy yet, but Houston looks now to bare the brunt of the winds and rain, and the storm surge is expected to be a killer on the coast, sweeping miles inland. Possibly overtopping Galveston’s seventeen-foot seawall.

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