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Men’s Basketball tops Texas-San Antonio, 58-37 to open season. Not a great start, we need the big men to grow up quick.

Longhorns are 9-2 heading into matchup with Aggies. If Jamaal Charles outrushes Stephen McGee Texas will win big.

Mike Leach is probably still whining about it, but the Texas Longhorns outscored his [tag]Texas Tech[/tag] Red Raiders to win for the ninth time this season. Tech falls to 3-4 in Big 12 play and 7-4 on the season.

Here’s what people are saying about the game from around the Interwebs…

Austin-American Statesman

• McCoy’s 6 TDs Help No. 15 Texas Hold On
• Texas a team on the rebound
• Leach goes off deep end with comments on officiating
• Longhorns vs. Red Raiders photo gallery

Dallas Morning News

• Staying grounded: UT rushes past Tech
• Determined Longhorns still in BCS hunt
• UT front line puts forth yeoman’s effort

San Antonio Express-News

• McCoy’s play helps UT easily wreck Tech
• Longhorns showcase line depth vs. Raiders
• Brown’s optimism paying off yet again for Texas

Houston Chronicle

• Texas offense rolls in victory over Texas Tech
• Texas Tech-Texas Summary

Inside Texas

• Horns Outgun Raiders; Aim For BCS
• Upon further review…
• Photo Gallery – Texas Tech

Other

• McCoy, Horns use late surge to pull away from Red Raiders
• Texas makes some serious noise with 551 yards of total offense
• Offensive explosion fuels Texas win
• Charles’ 174 yards lead Longhorns past Red Raiders
• Riding High In The Saddle

We thought it was going to be an exciting, high scoring game and Texas and [tag]Texas Tech[/tag] certainly didn’t disappoint when they took the field Saturday afternoon. The Longhorns were able to put up enough points to make up for a defense that couldn’t consistently stop Graham Harrell and the Red Raiders explosive offense. The win moves the team to 9-2 on the season and keeps the Horns in position for a possible BCS birth.

ESPN highlights from the game below:

Real weak highlight package from ESPN this week. These are the clips they showed on College Gameday Final and even Sportscenter showed more. I can’t believe they didn’t show Colt McCoy’s fantastic touchdown run or Nate Jones’ TD where he tip-toed down the sideline for 30+ yards. I guess when you have to spend 5 minutes discussing Notre Dame losing again you don’t have time to show more than 41 seconds of highlights of an exciting game featuring a ranked team.

FSN to air Texas 2007-08 basketball preview Monday night. 30-minute show will feature interview with Rick Barnes on the upcoming season.

Can Texas stop Graham Harrell (or at least slow him down)? The defense has made much worse QB’s look like All-Americans this season.

Longhorns en Espanol Big in Austin. Nice article on the Spanish language broadcast on 1260 AM in Austin.

An SEC match-up between Auburn and Georgia is the only game between ranked teams today but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad day for college football fans. The Big 12 may be home to the day’s best games including a huge trap for the still undefeated Kansas Jayhawks as they travel to Stillwater to face Oklahoma State.

Here’s today’s lineup:

(12) Michigan at Wisconsin – 11:00 am on ESPN. After losing their first two games of the season Michigan has beaten a bunch of mediocre Big 10 teams to climb back up to number twelve in the current polls. Wisconsin beats them at home unless Chad Henne has a huge day.

Texas A&M at (6) Missouri – 11:30 am on FSN. This could be an ugly one for the Aggies, Mizzou quarterback Chase Daniel is going to light them up today and put the final nail in Dennis Franchione’s coffin.

Air Force at Notre Dame – 1:30 pm on NBC. 1-9. Ha. Go Air Force!

Texas Tech at (14) Texas – 2:30 pm on ABC. The game will reportedly be in high definition, finally. Tech is always a scary game for the Horns and today shouldn’t be any different.

(18) Auburn at (10) Georgia – 2:30 pm on CBS. The only game of the day between two top 25 teams. I haven’t been particularly impressed with either team this year but they play great defense and they’ve been winning tough games.

(4) Kansas at Oklahoma State – 7:00 pm on ABC. The Jayhawks’ defense has been incredible this season but the OSU Cowboys’ offense will give them one of their first tests of the year. I’m calling the upset, Okie State wins at home tonight in front of a national audience.

(17) USC at California – 7:00 pm on ABC. Not nearly the match-up we thought this game was going to be a month ago but still should be fun to watch. A battle to see which team will finish third in the Pac-10.

Microsoft adds ESPN programing to the Xbox 360. I might pay $4.50 for a game in HD if I could have it on more than my Xbox.

Texas starts at #16 in ESPN’s week 1 college basketball power poll. Should be moving up if they can take out UTSA.