Big 12 Wrap: Week 9
Halloween weekend brought nasty surprises for many teams in the Top 25, and a few surprises for Big 12 teams as well. Here's the wrap of a weird weekend of football:
Oklahoma 38, Oklahoma State 35
Donovan Woods looked like one of the worst passers in the Big 12 in the first half, but his team only trailed 21-14 thanks to two gift-wrapped touchdowns from the Oklahoma special teams, which are starting to resemble John Blake's old units. In the second half, Woods torched the Sooner secondary with numerous long completions, and was inches away from a completion for a go-ahead touchdown on the Pokes' final drive (which ended in a missed field goal). Adrian Peterson was, once again, the difference maker for Oklahoma, running wild for 249 yards, and Mark Bradley at least gets an assist for touchdowns receiving and returning. Representatives from the Holiday Bowl were reportedly scouting the Cowboys in this one, but the Pokes have some tough games ahead before they start making reservations. The Sooners are lucky to have escaped this one, but poor special teams play and susceptibility to the deep pass may eventually derail their national title hopes.
Texas 31, Colorado 7
Early on in this game, Texas seemed (inexplicably) determined to turn Vince Young into a passinq quarterback. After the disastrous results, Texas went back to the power option game that has been their bread and butter this season, and easily disposed of Colorado. It didn't hurt that the Longhorn defense just battered Colorado quarterback Joel Klatt. To me, Vince Young looked better running the ball in this game than he has all season. His numbers weren't outrageous, but he was elusive and showed a good burst. When combined with Cedric Benson's power, Young's occasional dinks to the tight ends, and a defense whose #11 looks like a heat-seeking missile in Greg Robinson's scheme, this team is more than most teams not dressed in crimson can handle.
Baylor 35, Texas A&M 34
On upset weekend, A&M probably suffered the second most embarrassing upset of any ranked team (Miami gets the nod here for losing to North Carolina). They probably were looking ahead to Oklahoma and a chance to avenge last year's 77-0 loss as well as take over the lead in the South next weekend, but it's not like the team flatlined against Baylor -- the Aggies still dominated yardage and led most of the game. However, turnovers hurt, the A&M defense couldn't stop Baylor when it had to, and the game just got away. It's hard to figure whether this will act as more motivation for Oklahoma next weekend (as if A&M needed it), or will dampen spirits.
Texas Tech 35, Kansas State 25
Texas Tech is awfully hard to beat when they sprint out to an early lead, as they tend to force opponents to abandon their game plans prematurely in an effort to keep up. This year's Kansas State team isn't equipped to play that kind of game, and the fact that Dylan Meier threw the ball 41 times and Darren Sproles ran it 18 tells the tale. The Wildcats may be headed towards Snyder's first losing season in... a long time. Texas Tech should become bowl-eligible against Baylor next week, but games against A&M and Oklahoma State will determine the quality of their bowl.
Nebraska 24, Missouri 3
Missouri came out flat in this one after a week in which their starting running back was suspended indefinitely, and following a mishap in which the team plane slid off the runway en route to the game. That seemed to foreshadow an offense that appeared to be stuck in the mud all day. Nebraska's offense didn't exactly set the place on fire, though. Joe Dailey went 4 of 18 for a whopping 25 yards, and the team punting 11 times. Still, it's good enough to have Nebraska in sole possession of first place in the woeful North.
Iowa State 13, Kansas 7
I didn't watch or otherwise follow any of this one, so I can't really comment on it. I thought Mark Mangino had turned Kansas into a better football team than this. It was either a bad week or I was fooled.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/31/04 21:34 | Big 12 Football | Technorati
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The commenting system in Nucleus is really weak, in terms of ability to use html, to manage users, and to control good ol' poker spammers (part of this boomerangs on obsessed pokerheads like yourself! ha). The developers haven't gone as good a job as the MT and WordPress folks in developing plugins to deal with the problem.
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It just seemed like a better idea. We realize it cuts down on casual commenters, but after our experience with some of the commenters at the old Chronically Biased, that seemed more like a feature, not a flaw. :)
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