This should be a fast, high-scoring game out there in Lubbock on the South Plains. Rather like basketball except with longer passes. There is some thought (Austin sportswriter Kirk Bohls) that the Longhorns will focus on the ground game to control the clock, but when Tech gets the ball, the best they’ve got is an aerial circus, so the passing will predominate. The bookies line is Texas by 11, but I hope it’s more than that. TBS, 6 p.m. CDT
UPDATE Yipes, Tech 31, Texas 21 at the half and Tech has almost 400 yards passing. Upset? Maybe.
AGAIN OK, Texas 35, Tech 31. Saltshaker a blogger at statesman.com summed this up real well before the game:
"What does (Tech coach Mike) Leach do to get these less than recruits to make these kinds of plays and run non stop?
"Try double conditioning, and making the receivers only catch 60mph tennis balls, fired out of a ball gun. You think I’m kidding? I’m not. He believes the boys must be in better shape and be able to catch screaming tennis balls. That’s why he produces such an array of good receivers so quickly.
"I’m imagining Jean Claude Van Damme style training montages with Sensei Leach making the young QB wear a blind fold and ‘feel’ the open receiver.
"He doesn’t run a training camp…..it’s a football monastery.
"Colt, your mission this week……just get us the hell out of there with a win."
FINAL He did. Texas wins, 35-31. Whew!
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