40 Acres Sports

Maybe he shouldn’t have cheapshotted Mike Griffin the play before. It’s called karma baby.

I didn’t realize that was his first TD.

Our Thoughts

Brian – No movement this week, though I was tempted to bump Chris Leak above Matt Leinart. Another week for Leak and Omar Jacobs like the last two and Leinart may find himself at the bottom of my list. Vince Young has cemented his spot as my favorite to win the award.

Matt – Vince Young finally proved he is a quarterback, doing what star quarterbacks do, leading his team to victory. I think it is now his trophy to lose.

Related Links

• Last week’s Heisman poll

He gets to the UT game at the end of page 1.

Supposedly coaches at other schools had tried to raid affected teams and recruit their players.

Fantastic Bill Little commentary on the OSU game.

Our Thoughts

Brian – How bout them Texas Longhorns? I can’t move them up above USC, but I think because of a down year in the Big XII they have a better chance of finishing the season undefeated. I think a Texas – Louisville matchup in the Rose Bowl is a strong possibility. Another week of upsets means another week of big drops and jumps in my top 25. Notre Dame moves all the way up to #13 this week from #25, though I still have my doubts. With the way Pitt lost to Ohio on Friday and how completely terrible Michigan looked Saturday I still just don’t know if they’re for real. We’ll definitely know more next week.

Matt – What a great weekend of college football. With Texas winning the Game of the Year at Ohio State, I am moving Texas into the #1 spot. Vince Young showed what a special player he really is, never giving up and leading Texas to the comeback victory. The ASU vs LSU game was incredible as well. I think LSU showed a lot of heart and I am keeping them in the Top 5.

The Notre Dame vs Michigan game was also interesting, but it is hard to tell if Michigan isn’t the team everyone expected them to be or if Notre Dame really is that good. With that in mind, I am reluctantly moving previously unranked Notre Dame to #13, and will have no trouble dropping them down a bit with any sign up weakness.

Related Links

• Last week’s rankings

The defense deserves a lot of credit in this game, they came up big time and time again.

Holy cow. I hope the team and coaching staff are looser than I am, because I’m nervous as hell. They seemed pretty loose in practice this week, hopefully it carries over to a relaxed, focused, and prepared team tonight against [tag]Ohio State[/tag].

Probably won’t be posting as much as last week, I’ll be focusing all my positive energies on the game. That and I’ll probably be pacing around the house.

First Quarter

• Why isn’t ABC showing this or any other games in high definition? They’ve had plenty of absolutely crappy games on ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD.
• Someone tell Jack Arute to listen when he asks a question so he doesn’t ask something someone answered for him 3 seconds ago.
• Surprised Pino is kicking off, I’m guessing to keep it away from Ginn. Worked terribly.
• That was really close to a lateral.
• Huge three and out.
• I like the empty backfield, something we haven’t shown much of.
• Vince Young is pissed. I love it. Big time facemask, I’d be pissed too.
• Man the OSU linebackers are fugly. Looks like AJ Hawk is on human growth hormone.
• Big time run! Vince is definitely looking good running the ball. Much quicker than anyone the Buckeyes have.
• Pittman was wide open and he fell down. Damnit. Good call and pass.
• Sloppy play by VY and Selvin Young, almost turned the ball over on an option. It looks like they ruled it an incomplete pass. Kind of screwed up that opportunity. Ramonce Taylor is not the man to be throwing the jump ball to in the end zone.
• I love David Pino, 42 yard field goal is good.

Texas 3, OSU 0

• Our kickoff coverage is terrible. Angle that sucker, don’t just kick it right down the middle. Good depth though.
• Looks like Def. Coordinator didn’t show anything last week. Nice late shift by the defensive line causes a delay of game.
• Rashad Bobino needs to break down and make that tackle on the swing pass.
• Zone blitz by the Horns on 3rd and 6 forces Zwick to scramble and he ends up short. Rod Wright dropped off into the flats for coverage. I’m loving Coach Chizik.
• Aaron Ross has to catch the dang punt. Get up there and fair catch it so that it’s not bouncing all over the place and costiing us yards.
• Woooo! Love to see Jamaal Charles already in there and a wide open Billy Pittman running down the middle of the field. Nice throw and catch.
• Are we running some no huddle? Man we are treating this big game like it’s a big game and pulling out all the tricks. Note: The announcers of course didn’t notice.
• Great catch from David Thomas. Saved Vince’s butt.
• Our offensive line looks a little tired (Justin Blalock in particular just now), it’ll be interesting to see what kind of condition both teams are in.
• Jamaal Charles has skills. Little shifty sucker. I love to see the tail back screen, we don’t do that too often.
• First Henry Melton sighting. First down, we may have gotten a generous spot there.
• HOLY COW! We just threw on first and goal from the 5 yard line. Touchdown Billy Pittman. Wide open again after a play fake.

Texas 10, OSU 0

• My God, our kickoff coverage is an embarassment. We’re up now, but if we start on our ten every time and they’re starting on their fifty we may need to score 100.

(more …)

Our first exclusive gallery has been uploaded of Longhorns running back commitment Derke (pronounced Derek) Robinson. Robinson is a 4 star running back from Lewisville Hebron and I had the chance to head down the road to watch him play.

His team handled The Colony Cougars pretty easily that night through the air and with Robinson hobbled a little (looked like an ankle issue) he was given the ball sparingly. He looked great on the chances he did get but finished the night with 67 yards on only 7 carries.

View the gallery.