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Conference Roundups
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Texas Tech
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Big 12
Game of the Week
Colorado 28 … Iowa
State 24
Colorado hung on as Iowa State got down to the Buff one with time running out,
but D.J. Dykes stopped Alexander Robinson on a final run to seal the win. After
filling in for an ineffective Tyler Hansen, Cody Hawkins threw four touchdown
passes including two in the final 7:05, including a five-yarder to Cody Crawford
with 1:30 to play, to pull the Buffs into the lead for good. Iowa State took a
24-13 lead midway through the fourth quarter on Alexander Robinson’s second
touchdown run of the game, and then Hawkins took over. Ryan Walters made 16
tackles for Colorado.
Big 12
Player of the Week
Texas Tech QB Graham Harrell completed
40-of-50 passes for 456 yards and six touchdowns in the 56-20 win over
Oklahoma State
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Conference |
Overall |
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North |
W-L |
PF |
PA |
W-L |
PF |
PA |
STK |
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Missouri |
4-2 |
236 |
153 |
8-2 |
451 |
236 |
W3 |
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Nebraska |
3-3 |
188 |
213 |
6-4 |
338 |
291 |
W1 |
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Kansas |
3-3 |
204 |
221 |
6-4 |
345 |
282 |
L1 |
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Colorado |
2-4 |
87 |
187 |
5-5 |
194 |
281 |
W1 |
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Kansas State |
1-5 |
165 |
253 |
4-6 |
353 |
344 |
L4 |
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Iowa State |
0-6 |
126 |
244 |
2-8 |
254 |
340 |
L8 |
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Conference |
Overall |
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BSouth |
W-L |
PF |
PA |
W-L |
PF |
PA |
STK |
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Texas Tech |
6-0 |
296 |
158 |
10-0 |
479 |
222 |
W10 |
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Texas |
5-1 |
245 |
164 |
9-1 |
443 |
207 |
W1 |
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Oklahoma |
5-1 |
315 |
184 |
9-1 |
514 |
236 |
W4 |
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Oklahoma St |
4-2 |
221 |
158 |
8-2 |
428 |
245 |
L1 |
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Texas A&M |
2-4 |
184 |
261 |
4-6 |
270 |
359 |
L1 |
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Baylor |
1-5 |
130 |
201 |
3-7 |
267 |
296 |
L4 |
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Games of the
Week
Aug. 30 -
Missouri 52 - Ill. 42
Sep. 6 - Colorado 31 ... EMU 24
Sep 13 - USF 37 - Kansas 34
Sep 20 - CU 17 - WVU 14 OT
Sep 27 - VT 35 - Neb 30
Oct 4 - KU 35 - ISU 33
0ct 11 - Texas 45 - OU 35
Oct 18 - OU 45 - Kansas 31
Oct 25 - Texas 28 - Ok St 24
Nov. 1 - TTech 39 ... Texas 33
Nov. 8 - Col 28 ... Iowa St 24 |
Players of the Week
Aug. 30 - Colt McCoy, Texas
Sep. 6 - Dez Bryant, Ok St
Sep 13 - Sam Bradford, OU
Sep 20 - Colt McCoy, Tx
Sep 27 -Colt McCoy, Tx
Oct 4 - Graham Harrell, TT
0ct 11 - Robert Griffin, BU & Jordan Shipley, Texas
Oct 18 - Sam Bradford, OU & KU WR Dezmon Briscoe
Oct 25 - Graham Harrell, TT
Nov. 1 - Graham Harrell & Michael Crabtree, TT
Nov. 8 - Graham Harrell, TT |
Conference
Roundup
Baylor
… Baylor has become way too reliant on
Robert Griffin. He’s the team’s best
weapon, by far, but against a team like
Texas, the offense needs several players
from several places to step up and
produce. That didn’t happen, and the
close game in the first half turned into
a blowout. There was nothing happening
with the passing game, Griffin was under
tremendous pressure, and while he was
able to tear of a few big runs, he
wasn’t able to give his defense any help
by moving the chains. It’s a road game
against Texas, there isn’t anything to
be too upset about, but the Texas A&M
game next week is winnable.
Colorado … Colorado saved its
season, and possibly the Dan Hawkins
era, with a few late touchdown passes
from Cody Hawkins and the goal line
stand to beat Iowa State. Hawkins
wouldn’t have been fired with a loss,
but it would be a bad sign and would’ve
firmly entrenched Colorado at the bottom
of the Big 12 barrel. Cody Hawkins
picked a great time to come up with his
best game in a long, long time, pulling
the Buffs out of the fire late. The big
problem continues to be the field goal
kicking. CU has only hit one of ten
attempts since the West Virginia game,
and missed two against the Cyclones.
A bowl game is still possible with a win
over either Oklahoma State or Nebraska.
Iowa State … Now we’ll get to
see what kind of mental toughness Iowa
State has. On a seven-game losing streak
following the heartbreaking last second
loss to Colorado, the bowl dream is long
gone with Missouri and a trip to Kansas
State to close things out. There are
positive signs to take away from the
loss. Austen Arnaud had a nice day and
Alexander Robinson ran extremely well.
However, the offense couldn’t close out
the game. It was as tough a loss as they
come, but an upset over Missouri would
erase this week in a hurry.
Kansas … Kansas might not be
anywhere near as good as it was last
year, but it’s still not all that bad,
even in a loss. The offensive line
struggled against the Nebraska defensive
front, and while QB Todd Reesing was
under consistent pressure, He proved
time and again how tough he is. He took
shot after shot and kept coming back and
making plays even when the tide had
turned. Kansas will go bowling, the Big
12 has plenty of spots to fill, but the
season is on the verge of quickly
turning sour unless the lines don’t
start playing better. On the flip side,
it KU can beat Texas and/or Missouri to
close out the regular season, 2008 will
take on a different look.
Kansas State … Kansas State
played like it normally does in the loss
to Missouri, and that’s part of the
reason why it’ll be looking for a new
head coach. 10 penalties, little
offensive balance, and no consistency on
either side of the ball were all
problems. To be fair, this was a jacked
up Tiger team playing its final home
game of the year, but the KSU offense
wasn’t even close to being able to keep
up the pace with Josh Freeman failing to
get the passing game going while the
ground game did nothing outside of the
final few minutes. Even with all of the
problems, the Wildcats can still go
bowling by beating Nebraska and Iowa
State in the final two games.
Missouri … Missouri, after a
sluggish win over Baylor, stepped up and
took care of business by putting away a
reeling Kansas State team right away.
Jeremy Maclin showed once again that he
deserves to be in the discussion with
Michael Crabtree and Dez Bryant as one
of the Big 12’s, and nation’s, best
receivers. The defense had one of its
better games as Sean Weatherspoon and
company swarmed all over the Wildcat
ground game. The race is all but over,
Missouri will be almost certain to win
the North for a second straight season,
so the hope has to be to beat Iowa State
with ease so everyone can rest up during
the off week. And then the Kansas game
can be played like a preseason game. At
this point, it’s all about winning the
Big 12; beating Kansas might not
actually matter.
Nebraska … Ndamukong Suh made
himself some money against Kansas.
Always considered a good talent, he was
unstoppable against Kansas as the main
man in the middle for the defensive
front dominated throughout. Offensively,
the shift has officially kicked in as
Roy Helu Jr. appeared to have
permanently pushed Marlon Lucky out of
playing time. The coaching staff is
adapting and adjusting on the fly, and
it’s working. Coming off the blowout
loss to Oklahoma, the Huskers regrouped
and came up with their best win of the
season with winnable games against
Kansas State and Colorado to close. Now,
just getting bowl eligible isn’t enough.
A nine-win season, if Nebraska wins its
bowl game, is possible.
Oklahoma … The OU offense comes
out firing with Sam Bradford spreading
the ball around and using all his
weapons, the other team can’t keep up,
and then everyone goes home. It seems so
simple for the Sooners after blasting
Texas A&M with the most points ever put
up by a visiting team in College
Station. OU
got the big break with Texas Tech
beating Oklahoma State, so after a week
off, the battle against the Red Raiders
could end up forcing a three-way tie in
the South. If OU blasts Tech and
Oklahoma State, it’ll probably be ranked
higher than anyone in the Big 12 and
would then play for the Big 12 title.
Oklahoma State … Didn’t Play This
Week
Texas … Texas appeared to suffer
a wee bit of an intensity hangover in
the first half against Baylor, and then
Ryan Palmer turned everything around
with his pick six that appeared to wake
the Horns up. Colt McCoy got plenty of
time and produced when he had to in the
second half to make the game a blowout,
and the defense tightened up. Robert
Griffin got his rushing yards, but the
Longhorns didn’t allow anyone else to do
anything. The defensive front,
especially Roy Miller, did a good job of
picking up the slack with Brian Orakpo
out.
Texas A&M … Texas A&M simply
couldn’t stop the bleeding early on
against Oklahoma. As good as Jerrod
Johnson might be, he couldn’t handle the
pressure from the Sooner defensive front
and was way too off on too many passes
to keep up the pace, and the blowout was
on. In a perfect world there would be
some semblance of a running game to
settle everything down and allow the
defense time to rest, but Mike Goodson
and Jorvorskie Lane combined for 15
yards on 10 carries, and the team
finished with 26 rushing yards. Now the
Aggies have to beat Baylor and Texas on
the road to become bowl eligible.
Texas Tech… The Texas
win might have been the biggest in Texas Tech history, but the win over
the Oklahoma State was when everything came together. This might have
been the best performance in the Mike Leach era with the quarterbacks
(Taylor Potts came in late) competing 45-of-55 passes for 516 yards and
seven touchdowns with no interceptions. The team proved that there
wouldn’t be a letdown after the Texas win, but now there’s a week off
before going to Oklahoma. Will the consistency and explosion cool off?
It’s unlikely. The team will have to be used to playing in adverse
situations; Oklahoma will be certain to keep up the pace.