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Very impressive throw. Most pro QB’s probably couldn’t do that.

A couple of shots of Mack Brown and Vince Young having a grand old time.

Texas’ 152 unanswered points since the first half of the Oklahoma State game is flat out domination.

“I do not think I have ever been on a field where I have seen so many big, strong, fast and talented kids.”

[tag]Chris Simms[/tag] is looking really good today. Very efficient and led his team to 28 points so far against a tough Washington defense. He hasn’t made any mistakes and he’s done a good job leading an offense that isn’t blocking well and isn’t running the ball hardly at all anymore. That said, he still throws the ball way too low and gets too many passes knocked down. I don’t think its really a mechanics thing, so I don’t know how you fix it. With the athletes on the defensive line in the NFL, he’s going to have those picked off every now and then and those would be killers.

With less than a minute to go, Simms just led his team to a game-tying touchdown. He hit his wide receiver with a beautiful pass for a 30-yard TD. Wait a second, screw the tie. After two penalties on the Redskins on the extra point try, John Gruden sends the offense out there for the two point conversion. Mike Alstott barely gets in and the conversion is good. Tampa Bay leads 36 – 35.

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck are really hyping him right now and talking about how far he’s come. Glad to see Chris succeeding as he’s always represented the university very well. He’s a Texas Longhorn and even Major Applewhite supporters should be cheering him on.

It’s sad how half of the articles in the Kansas papers mentioned how terrible Texas fans are.

Or maybe it was “impressive.”

Twisted his right knee, no word on how severe it is yet.

“We started throwing the ball all over the place to let them know we were interested in winning the game.”

Last home game today for the seniors against a pretty good [tag]Kansas[/tag] Jayhawk football team. (Let’s hope it’s not Vince Young’s last game in Austin!) Obviously an important game for the Horns as they can’t afford to lose one as they persue a national title. Texas also has a chance to clinch the Big XII South simply by winning one of their last two games. We’re big favorites but there should be plenty to play for and we should come out fired up.

First Quarter

• No TV right now because OU and A&M are still going on ABC. WOAI in San Antonio is still streaming the games on the Internet even though everyone else has pulled it.
• Longhorns went 3 and out to start the game.
• A couple of early false starts by the Jayhawks gives them 2nd and 17.
• Robison gets pressure on Kansas quarterback and he gets the sack.
• Texas offense sounds a little rough right now and it appears Greg Davis is starting things off pretty conservatively. A screen pass on second and long and then a running play to Selvin Young on third and 10.
• Third down and 10 again for KU and Cedric Griffin comes up with the stop to force another punt. Not much offense for either team so far.
• Two more minutes to go in the OU/TAMU game. Sooners just converted a crucial 3rd down and 12 and should be able to run out the clock now.
• Sounded like a typical Ramonce Taylor screw up/huge play all in one, just like in the Ohio State game. Taylor fumbled the ball but it bounced back up to him and he’s able to scoop it and run for the first down.
• Touchdown Limas Sweed!! Play action fake by Vince Young who then throws a 45-yard bomb into the end zone and Sweed goes up to get it for the TD. Sweed had two big catches last week and makes a tough one to put the Longhorns up early.

Kansas 0, Texas 7

• Touchdown Robert Killebrew!! Kansas returner fumbled the kick off and Killebrew picks it up and scores!
• AHhh! They took the TD away from him. Officials said the ball was muffed which means the kicking team isn’t allowed to advance it.
• Well Killebrew is probably pissed, but the Longhorn offense is able to quickly turn his play into points. One play, hand off to Jamaal Charles for a ten yard touchdown.

Kansas 0, Texas 14

• OU finishes off the game and beats the Aggies 36 to 30. We should have TV coverage after the break.
• Radio and TV coverage missed it but it looks like kick off must have gone out of bounds. Rumor on Friday was that Greg Johnson might miss the game and Richmond McGee would have to kick off. Let’s hope we keep scoring and make it not matter.
• Good play by Larry Dibbles and Cedric Griffin to make the stop on another 3rd and long for the Jayhawks. Texas defense is starting off much better than they did against Oklahoma State or Baylor. Third straight 3 and out.
• More holding by the offensive line.
• Quan Cosby has officially arrived. My goodness has he become a player the last two or three weeks. He’s fast, catches the football well, and is a tough SOB who refuses to go down. That’s two weeks in a row that he should have been tackled and he turned it into a long TD. 65 yards on that reception and the Horns are up huge!

Kansas 0, Texas 21

• Well it’s Johnson out there to kick, guess he’s okay. Nice coverage by the Horns special teams.
• This isn’t the NFL, why is ABC taking a commercial break before after a kick off??
• Bevo XIV is still a little skinny. Is that just because he’s still pretty young? I honestly think Mark Mangino may weigh more than he does.
• Kansas looks as penalty-prone as we are. That’s not good if you don’t have the extreme talent advantage to make up for it.
• And the penalty kills KU as they have to punt again and Aaron Ross takes it back 71 yards for the touchdown. Great return, not much running side to side but he hit the seam and made people miss with quick moves. Best play on the return? Michael Huff not getting a penalty by wisely pulling back and avoiding the block in the back
• Mack Brown very fired up and happy, I love that.

Kansas 0, Texas 28

• Good kick off coverage is negated by another off sides call, but we run down there again and do a pretty good job.
• Mark Mangino was eating was having a Snickers on the sideline instead of calling a play and KU got a delay of game. I mock him because he needs help, seriously. (And he’s a bit of a blow hard.)
• Another stand by the defense, no first downs allowed yet.
• Downside of being up by 28 in the first quarter? Vince Young might not be able to rack up the stats if he only plays a half or so. Hopefully he can at least rack up about 250 passing yards and maybe add one or two more passing TD’s.

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