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Texas vs Ohio State

Posted on January 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Texas vs Ohio State

"Crack them Nuts," was the message on Mr. B.’s barber’s T-shirt when he got his haircut Saturday. But the daily’s sportswriters seem a little more circumspect in this morning’s Fiesta Bowl edition. Burnt Orange Nation is more upbeat and still has the best gametime forum. We’re going to find out what’s what at 7 p.m. It will only be the third meeting of the Horns-Buckeyes. They split the other two.

UPDATE: 6-3 Ohio State at the half. Texas will get the ball to start the second half but, so far, their offense is struggling against probably the best defense they’ve seen all year. Fortunately the Texas defense is holding its own, as well. Good game, but I don’t have a good feeling about this.

FINAL: Texas wins 24-21. Very satisfying, considering Ohio State played hard to the end. What a year for the Tuscola Kid, whom OSU beat in 2006, and now wins his second crack at the Buckeyes.

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The Tuscola Kid

Posted on September 9, 2006 | Comments Off on The Tuscola Kid

7:05 p.m. We’re countin’ on you, Colt. Hook Em.

9:00 p.m. HALFTIME: OSU 14, Texas 7

It’s a defensive battle so far, like a heavyweight fight. But Troy Smith’s experience is showing, while the Tuscola Kid is outclassed through the air and the OSU defense keying on Jamal Charles. Selvin Young is breaking out; best I’ve ever seen him. Still a chance to pull it out.

9:47 p.m. with 12 minutes left in the game, it’s still 17 to 7. The Texas offense just can’t make it work. Colt’s doing better through the air, but the receivers either can’t get it or else they drop it. What a night.

10:03 p.m. with less than 6 minutes to go it’s OSU 24 and Texas 7. Good game Buckeye fans. Looks like a lean year ahead for Texas. Hard to win without an offense.

Still like the Kid, though. He’ll get better. The question is, will his receivers?

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Postcard from Austin

Posted on September 9, 2006 | Comments Off on Postcard from Austin

Good, inspiring embedded video of Horns highlights here with on-scene Austin report from Scott Boswell at Dallas Powerhouse who got the video from Burnt Orange Nation. Maybe by the end of the season I’ll have figured out how to do this.

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The Game III

Posted on September 8, 2006 | Comments Off on The Game III

An old Army buddy, Russell Wheat, who is retired in Canyon Lake, a resort area near San Antonio, is a Longhorns alum and football fan. He predicts the outcome in about 24 hours will be Texas 28 and Ohio State 24.

Russ says tOSU is a good team, but Texas is better; the OSU defense is weak and the Texas team is faster. This is the same score he predicted before last year’s first game between Texas and Ohio State–along with some Austin sportwriters–although the actual score was a little less: Texas 25 and Ohio State 22. On the other hand, Russ thought Texas would lose the Rose Bowl back in January, and was pleasantly surprised when they did not.

Texas 28, Ohio State 24. Will it be the heart-stopper last year’s game was? We shall certainly see ere long. 

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The Game II

Posted on September 7, 2006 | Comments Off on The Game II
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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Will losing CB Terell Brown hurt?

Posted on September 5, 2006 | Comments Off on Will losing CB Terell Brown hurt?

I don’t want to prejudge the arrestees, except to say that having a loaded (!) 9mm in the car with you is mighty thuggish, whatever the excuse of the moment. So TB is out of the game, and that’s his problem. Our problem is trying to figure out how bad will that be when the Buckeyes meet the Longhorns on Saturday? 

Burnt Orange Nation doesn’t seem to think it will be a problem, and they’re sticking with their call made back in late July: Texas 30, Ohio State 24.

UPDATE  But Dallas Sports Powerhouse is not so sanguine, as their Scott Boswell came up with this succinct observation after the Longhorns opener:

"Colt McCoy looked good. Snead…not so good. Mack has made the right decision on the QB position. However, McCoy needs to be more careful with his decision making. Not only was he throwing the passes low enough that the receivers had to scoop them, he was throwing in to triple coverage. That isn’t going to fly against Ohio State and could very well cost us the game if not corrected."

Indeed. 

UPDATE Brown’s dope charge was dropped after he and Gates tested negative for drugs by the football program, but the gun charge remains. Fact that it’s a first offense and gun was registered may save them in court, but fact of its being loaded might be problematical. In any case they’re out of the game, but late consensus is that shouldn’t matter too much.

FINAL  Well, something mattered, in the 24-7 loss, and Brown may have been one thing. Anyway, as of Sept. 13, Brown and Gates were both reinstated on the team, although Brown was still facing the weapons charge. 

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The Game

Posted on September 4, 2006 | Comments Off on The Game

I don’t know much about Northern Illinois (can’t say I ever heard of them, in fact) which Ohio State  handily beat 35-12 on Saturday. But North Texas was a doormat for Texas, rolling over for 56-7, so it wasn’t much more than a scrimmage for the post-Vince National Champs. But we learned we do have an offense, as long as new QB Colt McCoy stays healthy–possibly (probably) definitely minus our starting cornerback Tarell Brown. A commenter at the link there says the Longhorns are becoming known as the Bong Horns. Still, if the O line can keep OSU off the Kid from Tuscola, the outcome still looks promising. Four more days and about 19 hours until Saturday’s 7 p.m. kickoff.

UPDATE  Mr. Brown was supposed to shadow OSU’s Ted Ginn Jr., so he will be missed, even if Colt, who is a redshirt freshman, after all, grows a few years as the evening goes on. Maybe somebody else can catch Mr. Ginn.

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