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      No. 3 Texas edges Texas A&M to stay undefeated

      November 27, 2009 /

      No. 3 Texas gave up a 70-yard touchdown on the third play, surrendered 39 points and 532 total yards on Thursday night.

      But they also won, which is the only thing that matters for the Longhorns this late in the season.

      Texas racked up 597 yards of total offense while beating Texas A&M, 49-39 on Thanksgiving night. Colt McCoy was brilliant, throwing for 304 yards on 24-of-40 passing and four touchdowns, while also rushing for 175 yards on 18 carries. His 65-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter gave the Longhorns a 14-7 lead and broke a 7-7 tie.

      McCoy wasn’t the only quarterback that put on a show, however. A&M junior signal caller Jerrod Johnson kept the Aggies in the ball game throughout the night as he finished with 342 passing yards with four touchdowns and 97 rushing yards on 14 carries. Just when you thought the Longhorns were going to bust the game open, Johnson would make a play to get A&M right back in it.

      Of course, neither team was interested in playing defense tonight, so McCoy and Johnson’s achievements are somewhat tempered. This game was a showcase for Big 12 critics that like to hammer the conference for rarely (if ever) playing defense.

      Texas is now one win away from appearing in the national title game. They’ll take on Nebraska next Saturday in the Big 12 Championship and assuming voters don’t set up a rematch between Florida and Alabama, McCoy and the Longhorns will get their crack at a title.

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      2009 Week 13 College Football Point Spreads

      November 25, 2009 /

      It’s rivalry week!

      No. 3 Texas at Texas A&M, 8:00PM ET, Thursday
      Texas A&M have beaten Colt McCoy two of the last three seasons and will look to spoil Texas’s shot at a national title when the teams meet on Thanksgiving. The only problem is that the Aggies have the 110th ranked pass defense in the country and McCoy could torch them repeatedly. With so much on the line, don’t count on Texas overlooking their in-state rivals on Thursday.
      Odds: Texas –21.

      No. 2 Alabama at Auburn, 2:30PM ET, Friday
      Auburn will be looking to ruin Alabama’s national title hopes by knocking off the Crimson Tide in the teams’ annual Iron Bowl meeting. Auburn hopes its spread offense and 11th best running game will be successful against ‘Bama’s top ranked defense.
      Odds: Alabama –10.

      Nevada at Boise State, 10:00PM ET, Friday
      Even there’s any team that could ruin Boise State’s bid for a national title it’s Nevada, who has only lost by a combined nine points to the Broncos the past two years. The Wolf Pack have won eight in a row and could snag a share of the WAC title with a win on Boise’s blue turf this Friday. How will Boise’s defense stack up to the nation’s top ranked rushing attack?
      Odds: Boise State –14.

      Florida State at No. 1 Florida, 3:30PM Saturday
      Tim Tebow will be playing his final home game of his collegiate career on Saturday when the Gators host Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles. Florida has won 21 straight games, but it needs two more victories to secure a spot in the national title game. The Gators have won the past five meetings vs. the Seminoles and lead the all-time series 32-19-2.
      Odds: Florida –24.5.

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      A sign of things to come? ND nixes Weis’ recruiting trip

      November 25, 2009 /

      Charlie Weis has been informed that his West Coast recruiting trip has been canceled and that he’ll return to South Bend following the Irish’s game with Stanford on Saturday.

      From FOX Sports.com:

      Athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Tuesday during a taping of his radio show for WLS Radio 890 in Chicago, which normally airs on Saturday, that Weis will fly back with the team.

      Weis had said Sunday he planned to stay on the West Coast recruiting, just as he had last year when he and Swarbrick met to discuss his future after the regular-season finale at USC.

      A message seeking comment was left for Swarbrick on his cell phone Tuesday evening by The Associated Press. Swarbrick’s comments became public after Weis’ weekly news conference on Tuesday.

      Weis wasn’t in a reflective mood at what could be the final weekly news conference at his alma mater. Two days after saying he couldn’t argue if Notre Dame officials decided to fire him with a 6-5 record, Weis set the tone with his opening comment: “I have a news flash. We have a football game this Saturday evening against Stanford, so let’s see if we can’t talk about that,” he said.

      The writing is on the wall: Weis is done in South Bend regardless of how the team does this week at Stanford.


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      Miles accepts blame in loss to Ole Miss

      November 24, 2009 /

      LSU head coach Les Miles accepted blame for the Tigers’ collapse last Saturday against Ole Miss, although it appears that he isn’t accepting blame for everything.

      From SI.com:

      “As part of the process, I evaluate everything we do — players and coaches,” Miles continued. “I’m part of that process. I’m no different than anybody in this team room. I mismanaged the back end of the Ole Miss game.

      “I’m responsible. I’m the head coach.”

      The signal-caller on the sidelines (graduate assistant John Dunn) told Jefferson to spike the ball.

      “To try to get the ball snapped with one second was certainly our greatest desire,” Miles said. “There was a possibility of Ole Miss having 12 men on defense. That came down from the press box.

      Here’s the problem: Miles was the one that was signaling for Jefferson to spike the clock, as evidence by the video below.

      Miles wants to take blame for what happened and he should, because that’s what head coaches do. But why did he not take blame for motioning to Jefferson to stop the clock? Jefferson says that the signal-caller told him to spike the ball and maybe he did, but Miles was clearly doing the motion too, yet he says he doesn’t know who told the quarterback to spike the clock.

      At the end of the day, this will go down as just a massive screw up by all parties involved and LSU will just have to move on and get over it. It was just a bad ending in a bad loss, but I find it interesting that Miles won’t admit that he too was motioning for Jefferson to stop the clock. If he’s going to accept blame for the loss, he might as well go the whole nine yards and admit that he screwed up by listening to the press box and giving Jefferson the spike motion too.

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      Report: Notre Dame’s Clausen punched by fan

      November 24, 2009 /

      According to a report by ESPN.com, Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen was punched in the face by an irate fan outside a South Bend resturant early Sunday morning.

      The report states that Clausen has a swollen eye from the incident, although he’s still expected to play this weekend against Stanford.

      That person said Clausen was “sucker-punched” by a fan as he left an establishment after having dinner with his parents.
      The fan allegedly said something to Clausen and/or a female acquaintance.

      A South Bend police spokesman said that no police reports were filed over the weekend involving Clausen, according to the Chicago Tribune.

      The newspaper also reported that the name of the bar was CJ’s and that a bartender at the establishment said that Clausen had been there with family members and other Irish upperclassmen after Notre Dame’s loss to Connecticut on Senior Day.

      If you’re an Irish fan, why punch Clausen? Out of all the players and coaches that have under performed on that team this season, Clausen would be the last guy you would punch, right? (I’m being factious by the way – fans shouldn’t be touching any player or coach no matter how much Charlie Weis screws the pooch.)

      Either way, things are definitely getting a little testy in South Bend these days.


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