Latest I saw has Texas favored by 2 points on the betting line. That’s not much. Just one less than the outcome last year. Surely Vince is worth more than one point? Meanwhile, Austin hotels are filling up and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is planning for extra flights, chartered and regular carrier, from Columbus, Ohio. Going to be a good game, whoever wins.
UPDATE Reading ESPN’s coverage, I note that tOSU senior QB Troy Smith is praised for his three touchdown passes last week against NIU. Left unsaid is that redshirt freshman (i.e. sophomore) tUT QB Colt McCoy also made three touchdown passes last week against NTS. The ESPN writer has a little fun calling Colt "Opie" for his plainspoken, rural ways, but the Kid from Tuscola is unflappable according to his teammates. Could be he’ll emerge as good as, and even better than Smith. Texas was discounted before the Rose Bowl, too, and while no one I’ve seen is doing exactly that this time, there seems to me a similar need to be more impressed with tOSU as there was with Southern Cal.
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