Because of the Oklahoma loss the Horns are still in the hunt for the Big 12 crown and the Sooners are knocked out of the national title discussion. Not that the team needed it, but now the team has a little something extra to play for next Friday against the Aggies.
Go Raiders!!! (Your quarterback is still a punk and your coach is still whiny and wrong. And your fans suck too.)
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
Inside Texas
Other
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.
Posted November 10th, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Football, Quick Hits
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.
Posted April 16th, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Baseball, Quick Hits
Texas baseball wins 4-2 to complete sweep of Texas Tech. Good six inning outing from Joseph Krebs.
Posted February 21st, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Basketball, Quick Hits
Five Horns score in double figures as they roll past Texas Tech 80-51.
Posted February 14th, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Basketball, Quick Hits
Good Knight Aggies! Acie Law was nails again but Texas Tech had too much time and got the upset win.
What is apparently a very nearsighted Texas Tech fan has created two videos as “evidence” that Texas Tech lost the game to Texas last week because of the officials. The narration is hilarious as the guy has very little grasp on the NCAA rule book and half the things he thinks are penalties are perfectly legal plays. Pretty funny stuff. I like how he says “clearly” every three seconds despite the video rarely backing up what he’s saying. The conspiracy theory at the very end is hilarious.
Obviously not every call was correct but anyone who actually watched the game saw that it was an evenly called game. You could show a replay of every single play in a college football game and find something somewhere. I could make a video of the fact that Texas Tech held on every play or the several times the Texas receivers were hit early, but then I’d be as dumb as this guy. The biggest thing he needs to learns that the fact that the TBS announcers agree with you is usually a sign you’re really wrong. Those guys were terrible all night.
Check out the videos (found thanks to the Wiz) and a few responses from me after the jump. Videos removed by YouTube because they don’t like it when people actually like their site.
Man, for the second straight week the Longhorns are on the verge of picking up a loss, but Colt McCoy just wouldn’t let it happen, in almost VY-esque style. Colt is starting to make the loss of Vince Young almost seem bearable. And can you imagine if Musburger was doing the game? He would have been all over Colt.
Tech did put up quite a fight, but when you can’t run the ball (-1 yards on the night), it just makes it that much harder to close out games. And honestly, if you can’t get an inch on 4th down, you just don’t deserve to win.
And there might really be something about this TBS curse. Just look at the last five games on TBS: Tech, down 21-0. Baylor, down 10-0. Okie Lite ’05, down 28-12 at half. Tech ’04, down 7-0. Okie Lite ’04, down 35-7 at one point. And how about this year’s Okie Lite game? Oh yeah, that is on TBS too. Let’s try to jump out to a lead for once.
Here are some other inital reactions after the game:
I’m not even watching TBS yet, USC is about to get upset by Oregon State with seven seconds to go after the Beavers stop Booty and the Trojans on a two-point conversion. That would of course be huge for the Longhorns as a loss would likely drop USC well behind Texas in the human polls and behind them in the BCS as well. Definitely a big help since Nebraska getting spanked by Oklahoma State today probably going to hurt the strength of schedule.
As for this game, Texas is on the road for the second straight week against a tough opponent in [tag]Texas Tech[/tag]. Last week the Longhorns were solid but inconsistent. The offense has to punch the ball into the end zone and the defense has to stop the big play. Can the banged up Texas defense stop the Red Raiders offense? Should be a good game, hopefully Texas plays four strong quarters and wins in solid fashion.
First Quarter
- Scott Derry and Robert Killebrew both on the sideline early in a passing situation. Drew Kelson in at linebacker.
- Defensive end misses a chance at a sack. Can’t let Graham Harrell step away like that and give him a chance to throw.
- Red Raiders holding like crazy already. Got called for it on one play but getting away with it on the inside.
- Mike Leach goes for it on 4th down and the Texas defense doesn’t make them pay. Gives Harrell all day to throw and he completes a long pass.
- Tech RB takes a screen pass and there’s nobody around. Easy drive and easy TD for Tech.
Texas 0, Texas Tech 7
- Texas offense has to respond and put together a solid drive. Get some points and give Gene Chizik some time to figure out what the hell to do the next time Tech has the ball.
- A couple of good solid passing plays for the Texas offense to get started. Don’t forget about the running backs.
- First running play is the GT counter and Selvin Young has to try to bounce it wide. Nothing there.
- Colt McCoy really does throw the ball well when he’s moving around. Looks like Greg Davis knows that as he’s had a designed roll out or two already.
- Couple of actual zone read plays and looked like McCoy had room to keep it both times.
- Terrible call by the refs as none of them actually saw a fumble. Looked like Charles was clearly down. Then he recovered the ball himself while he was down again. Bad call.
- How the hell does the replay booth not freaking replay that. I say it every week, but man is replay on college football the most worthless thing of all time.
- Bad call. None of the refs actually called it a fumble till 20 seconds after the play. Charles recovered it himself, had control, and was down. Certainly close enough to review without forcing Mack Brown to call for the replay. Terrible job as usual.
- Texas defense blitzing guys and not getting any pressure at all.
- On the scoring play it looked like we sent about 7 guys after the QB and none of them got within 5 yards of him. Easy touchdown pass.
Texas 0, Texas Tech 14
- Good drive before the “fumble” last series. Offense can’t panic. Put together solid drives and see if the defense can pull their heads out.
- 3rd and 2 and we freaking throw the football. Get under center and run it down their damn throats.
- Crap. Cheap shot on Mike Griffin and now we’re another damn player short in the secondary.
- Griffin back in there. “How did Harrell get that pass off?” Because the officials don’t know how to freaking call holding. You can’t grab a guy’s jersey and hang on when he’s rushing the QB.
- Ball clearly came loose. What the hell is wrong with the announcers? Pretty close play needing review of whether he had possession.
- He bobbled the ball and never really had possession. Not sure they got the call right, but it was close. I like that all the replay guys are like 80 years old.
- Announcers are making themselves look worse and worse. First they couldn’t see anything that happened and wanted to know why there was a review. Then they thought it was clearly a fumble. Every time you watched another replay you saw something new, so clearly there was nothing clear about it.
- McCoy throws it right to Tech for a pick 6. Right freaking to him.
Texas 0, Texas Tech 21
- Plenty of time left still against this defense. Let’s get 10 – 14 back before the half and then win the damn game in the second half.
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